Year 6 Waterford Field Trip

On Thursday, Class 6 visited the village of Waterford to spend the day learning through Geography, Art, Science and Maths in and around the beautiful River Beane.

The children took part in many different activities, developing a range of fieldwork skills. These included measuring the speed of the water on a straight stretch of river before comparing the results to how quickly the water flowed through a meander, further upstream. They measured the depth of the river all the way across from bank to bank, and also noted the materials and vegetation on the riverbed every metre. They repeated this exercise so that when they returned to school they were able to translate the information into cross section graphs, showing how the river changed at different points.

River dipping was a favourite activity for many. The children were fascinated to discover which creatures use the River Beane as their habitat. They found a huge variety of species, including water boatmen, leeches, various fish and shrimps. Others enjoyed the tranquillity of creating landscape paintings, using watercolour paints and an impressionist style.

During the day they also did some reading about the environmental sculptor, Andy Goldsworthy. They looked at pictures of the incredible sculptures he has created from natural resources, then spent some time searching in the river and surrounding area for materials before building their own sculptures, in and out of the river.

A fabulous day was had by all, with lots of fun and so much learning!