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Field trips

Guided field trips are available at any time in Chichester Harbour
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

A team of qualified teachers offers individually planned field trips for all ages, linked to any curriculum focus in a range of harbour locations.

A modern and fully-equipped classroom at Dell Quay is available as a base for field trips and can accommodate groups of up to forty pupils or students. The Solar Boat can accommodate up to 50 passengers.

This year Chichester Harbour Conservancy Education Service has hosted a wide variety of different groups with an almost equally wide variety of interests. We have had infant school classes and university students, home education groups and environmental art studies, GCSE and A-level science and geography as well as pupils from special schools.

For more details on how a visit to the harbour can tie in with the National Curriculum, look at Curriculum Opportunities. The most common areas are geography, science, history, art and citizenship.

Some of the more popular trips are described below and you can download examples of programmes. Our programmes have to allow for the tide – the beach or saltmarsh may be awash or East Head almost inaccessible at high spring tides. The programme for the day will take this into account.

Key stage 1 & 2

Creatures in the environment, animals in habitats.

Fishbourne Meadows and Dell Quay provide an exciting contrast with an easy and enjoyable walk between the two sites. Stream dipping and ‘bug’ catching in Fishbourne Meadows is always great fun and very educational – as is the investigation of the muddy shoreline at Dell Quay with its ‘sand spaghetti’ created by lugworms, seaweed, shells and scuttling crabs.

Key Stage 2 & 3

Impact of humans on the environment, coastal processes and erosion, harbour management.

Chichester Marina provides a startling contrast with its hundreds of shiny boats neatly parked in rows against a backdrop of reed beds or open water. The lock gates can often be seen in action and Chichester Canal is another example of human engineering. From the marina there is an enjoyable walk to Dell Quay, through traditionally coppiced woodland and along the shoreline. With the prospect of finds of Stone Age flints and Roman pottery, there is plenty of scope for the imagination and topics for discussion.

GCSE and ‘A’ level Geography

East Head is geography and environmental management in action.

The recent dramatic changes to this sandy spit make it an ideal place to visit to see coastal processes actually happening and to appreciate the dilemma between balancing the needs of people against the inevitable forces of nature. It provides a safe environment for practicing fieldwork techniques, such as transects, quadrats, measurement of slope and gradation of pebbles up the beach.

‘A’ level Biology

Again East Head provides a great opportunity for studying succession across the sand dunes as well as studying and identifying the indigenous fauna and flora.

However, Dell Quay shoreline has plenty of interest and a classroom to use for setting up experiments, writing up field notes or identifying finds using microscopes.

For further details or to discuss your requirements for a field trip ashore or afloat in Chichester Harbour please phone 01243 789173 or email education@conservancy.co.uk

Examples of field trip programmes:

• KS1 Science Dell Quay

• KS2 Geography Managing people and nature in harbour environment Dell Quay and Chichester Marina

• KS2 Geography Rivers Fishbourne

• KS2 History

• GCSE Geography Coastal Processes East Head

• GCSE Biology East Head

• A level Geography Coastal Processes East Head

•A level Biology Coastal Habitats and Succession East Head

These are only examples – we design your field trip to fit your needs and curriculum focus – phone 01243 789173 or email education@conservancy.co.uk

Activity Plans KS1 & 2

Please note - these are ‘work in progress’ and are subject to change at any time.
Also they are only meant to be a guide, as field work always has to adapt to the prevailing conditions.
They will be available to download shortly.

Topic - Coasts, seaside & beach
Activities:
Features of the coast KS2
Sea Defences KS2
Human Activity KS2
Tide measuring KS2
East Head sea defences KS2
Beach treasure hunts KS1 & KS2
Crab homes KS1 & KS2
Crabbing with lines KS1 & KS2
Seaside Foundation
Oystercatcher nests KS1
Using keys 1 KS2
Using keys 2 KS2

Topic - Rivers, streams:
Activities:
Stream dipping KS1 & KS2
Stream speed & depth KS2
Sediment sieving KS2

Topic - Woodland
Activities:
Habitat study KS1
Investigating coppicing KS2

Topic - Meadow
Activities:
Mini-beast hunt KS1 & KS2

Topic - General
Activities:
Walks
Environmental Art KS1 & KS2
Sticky pictures KS1 & KS2
Look out sheets KS1
Habitats KS2

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