National Fieldwork Week - 6th June

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With National Fieldwork Week starting today, I'll be sharing some of the tweets from colleagues who are getting involved with National Fieldwork Week.

These are all in the running to receive one of three signed copies of 'Why Study Geography?' - I'm going to hand those out to those who are the most creative and interesting in sharing what they get up to.

The weather was not very good for the start of the first day of National Fieldwork Week in the East of England and the first lesson I had was too wet for getting out.

Some people managed to get out with their groups to the coast.

Others were in the Ainsdale Dunes and Liverpool city centre

I managed to get out to explore the nature of front gardens and how many of them had been changed to block paving and brick weave to enable off street parking, thereby removing green space which contributes to increased heat, issues for wildlife, lack of privacy and other aspects.

There is a London National Park City resource here which influenced our thinking.

Students were interested to see the variety of sizes and shapes of gardens and the way that some house owners took a great deal of care with the design and others were dumping grounds.

Some people also looked ahead to what they would do later in the week: with trips to Hunstanton and Leeson House in Dorset on the schedules. 

Thanks to a few Field Studies Council Centres for getting involved as well. I'm sure they're all doing fieldwork this week. Would be great to have some university departments as well. Thanks to a few Primaries that also shared their plans.

Here's a map of some of the places that students visited today - would be good to push into Wales, Scotland and beyond if possible as the week progresses. 

Keep the stories coming along with the hashtag #NationalFieldworkWeek - thanks to all those who've shared so far.

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