Our Upper 6 Biologists spent 4 days at Slapton Ley Field Studies Centre near Kingsbridge from 9 to 12 September. The centre is situated within a 200 hectare national nature reserve and offered brilliant opportunities for the girls to study a wide variety of habitats including a lake, streams, a shingle bar, wetland and woodlands. Whilst researching the girls were distracted by discovering all sorts of shrimp, fish and crabs in the rock pools; they even found a large velvet swimming crab which put up quite a fight!
During the trip the girls completed the necessary fieldwork for their A2 course and the practical section of their A2 coursework with support from Dr Ouldridge, Mrs Thorne and the Centre’s experienced ecologists.
In the evenings the girls had some down time playing football in the sports hall, and occasionally watching TV and listen to music in the common room. It was four days of intense biology, and they returned home with high spirits and lots of loud singing!
