Swimmers, wellies and hiking boots are high priorities on the kit list for the annual Year 8 Geography field trip, where the expression 'hands-on learning' is taken to the extreme.

The accompanying Farleigh staff are always amazed at the enthusiasm with which, after analysing the effects of coastal erosion, the Year 8s quite happily experience longshore drift at Dawlish Warren in late October, although we hear that the sea temperature is not that cold, apparently! When investigating river sources, the River Lemon and its infamous 'bog' is the gloriously muddy highlight, where the question of whether wellies are of any use at all is a recurring one!