Biology Fieldwork 2010 - The Isle of Wight

Date: Monday 28 June 2010

For the last several years the St Edmund's School biology department has spent a long weekend during the latter part of the Summer Term visiting the Medina Valley Centre, near Newport on the Isle of Wight. Lower Sixth formers go with Mrs Barnard and Mr Clapp to the island where she was born and raised to undertake a range of biological investigations in support of their theoretical classroom work.

Sandie Woodford, the centre's Schools' Liaison Officer, has recently written to Mrs Barnard, and the letter is well worth quoting for the benefit of any reader in doubt about the qualities of our Sixth Formers. 'Your pupils are very polite, well-mannered, sound pupils, and it was great to meet them'. Mr Clapp also met with approval as a Kate Rusby fan! 'We all very much loved having your group stay with us', was the final accolade!

This proved to be an exhausting four-day expedition, and we will all find out more when Henry Tresidder and Jack Farrer-Newey offer a pupils' report at the next and final School Line on Friday.

And, to top off a very busy week for the biologists, the same Lower Sixth formers all went to the University of Kent last Friday for their 'Biosciences' Day', offering even more understanding of this popular A-level subject.