Students study urban geography on their doorstep

Year 11 Geography students swapped their classroom for Letchworth town centre to investigate how deprivation impacts people’s quality of life.

We are fortunate to have Letchworth Garden City on our doorstep as an interesting example of an urban area with large disparities in levels of deprivation. The GCSE exam specification requires the students to complete an investigation into their human topic or urban areas.  After some secondary data investigation into levels of deprivation, two locations – Jackman’s Estate and Broadway – were chosen.

The year group was divided into two groups and students had an hour and a half at each location to complete a number of investigations at 4 different points within either Broadway or Jackman’s Estate. The investigations included an environmental quality survey and questionnaires.

The students were a credit to Fearnhill School and were polite and courteous throughout the investigation.

We made it back in time for lunch a little tired with some sore feet, with some people clocking over 19,000 steps.

A massive thank you goes to Miss Cottenden, Miss Lynn and Miss Hughes for their help and support.  Nick Fowler, Head of Humanities