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17 TriPs and visiTs in april a group of Y9 History students visited Birmingham University to take part in History Quest. This event aims to give students an introduction to History and archaeology at university for those studying it at gCse. we began with a lecture from an archaeology professor on the relevance of History to the world around us and how important it is to us in our lives today to understand how people in the past have lived thought and behaved. we then took part in a workshop that got us thinking about how to analyse a group of objects that had been excavated at an archaeological site. we were asked to draw a picture of the people who made up the family who used these things based on the objects that were found. some things were quite old-fashioned and hard to identify but others were easy to allocate to a person. sometimes it was easy to jump to conclusions and so we had to be careful not to assume that a washing up liquid bottle meant that a woman was part of the family Our teacher then asked us to consider if we had everything we needed in order to know all about the family. This led onto a discussion about what type of objects survive in the ground over time and which rot away making it hard to get a complete picture of life in the past. Often archaeologists have to cross reference what they have found in one site with finds from another location or like we did make assumptions about what the objects were probably used for and who might have used them. after a campus tour we did well in the quiz at the end of the day with one of our teams coming second Mrs Hartt and Y9. in april a group of Y9 History Year 10 geography Fieldwork On Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd June Year 10 geographers braced the windy weather on the shropshire Hills to carry out their geography Fieldwork which accounts for 25 of their gCse. after several postponements due to terrible weather Mr Birds and Ms whartons groups walked up Carding Mill valley onto the Long Mynd Plateau where they learnt about the heathland ecosystem which accounts for one third of the land of the British isles. Pupils appreciated the sense of the remoteness and scenic views from these hills before heading down the valley to collect data towards their controlled assessment. velocity width and depth of the channel and load size and shape were recorded at four sites with pupils getting their hands wet and dirty as they got stuck in despite the windy wet cold weather there were no moans or groans pupils were well prepared and got on with it working very effectively as teams. it was only fair that we visited the national Trust tea shop on our way back down to the minibuses so pupils could get an ice cream. we didnt let the weather ruin our day out well done to all our Year 10 geographers we hope their hard work pays off with some impressive controlled assessment results. Mr Bird those studying it at gCse. we began bottle meant that a woman was part of History Quest at the University of Birmingham