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What Happens in Vegas… Gets Studied: Geography Field Trip
A key aim of geography education at Lancing College is to broaden the horizon of students by exposing them to unique places around the world. Each year an international field trip is offered to those studying geography, and recent years have seen trips to Iceland and Morocco. This year the geography department led a trip […]
15 July 2025
A Level Geography Students Travel to Barcelona
Geography is a real-world subject, and the best way to learn it is to get out and immerse yourselves in places and environments! At Lancing College, the A Level field trip to Barcelona is the culmination of a field trip journey that begins in the Third Form, where students study the local area of Shoreham. […]
1 April 2025
Exploring North Wales with the Fifth Form Geographers
In September, Fifth Form geography students embarked on a trip to North Wales and other areas to collect fieldwork data for the UK physical landscapes section of our GCSE course. We were accompanied by our teachers, who were nice enough to put up with us for three days, and we spent three days exploring and […]
10 December 2024
Making Memories in Morocco
For a week in March, Lancing College geographers ventured 1,893 miles from Lancing to Marrakech for the Easter trip to Morocco. Our pupils’ voyage began on 22 March, returning a week later on 28 March. During their brief exploration of Morocco, pupils participated in a range of activities, traditions, and tasks – all designed to […]
15 May 2024
Exploring the Geography of Barcelona
Fieldwork provides an opportunity for students to study geography in the real world and at A Level the LVI take part in the annual trip to Barcelona. This not only puts learning into perspective but also enables students to learn vital data collection techniques that they can then apply to their own studies. At A […]
12 March 2024
Read the Latest Edition of the Lancing Geographer Journal
A team of Lower Sixth Form Geographers have spent much of the past two terms working on the next edition of the Lancing Geographer Journal. They have commissioned articles from their peers and edited articles that have been sent in, including a selection of articles based on the Upper Sixth Form A Level coursework. Articles […]
26 June 2023
Geographers enjoy Field Trip to Barcelona
The Lower Sixth Geographers went on their A Level field trip to Barcelona, leaving behind the dull clouds and freezing January temperatures and taking in the bright and sunny landscapes of Spain. In the first afternoon the students had a tour of the city to gain a sense of place and an understanding of how […]
24 January 2023
Teaching with the Chapel
The Chapel occupies a central place in our lives at Lancing College in many ways. Spiritually, it serves as a place of worship and reflection. It stands guard to the cultural landscape of the Adur Valley. It is the meeting place central to our community. The Chapel fulfils these and many other tasks for the […]
20 December 2022
Overnight Adventure
The Fourth Form Explorer Scouts ventured out on the Summer Term overnight adventure. The first stage was the navigation challenge, walking from the College to Hillside Scout Camp site in Small Dole. The routes had been planned by the teams themselves along the river Adur then over the Downs. After several hours in what was […]
2 July 2022
Academic EnrichmentCo-curricularGeneralGeographyTrips and Visits
Geographers in the Field
The Lower Sixth Geography students took part in a five-day residential fieldtrip as part of their A Level studies just before May Half Term. A key part of their A Level experience, the trip was designed to consolidate much of the learning from the year, as well as to introduce students to a range of […]
15 May 2022
Thinking inside the Box
Although Geography resides comfortably within the humanities faculty, it is also infused with application of the scientific method. A particular example of such ‘Scientific Geography’ is the use of experiments to examine landscape evolution up close. Changes in the physical landscape normally happen slowly and much of it therefore remains unseen by most. This is […]
12 May 2022
Showcasing our Geographers’ Talents
The Lancing Geographer is a journal of original academic writing by students at Lancing College. Edited by a dedicated team of A Level Geography students, it aims to showcase the talents of geographers across the school. Many of the articles derive from the A Level Geography projects that students complete each year which count towards their […]
20 January 2022
Climate+ Lectures continue Online
The CLIMATE+ series is online and freely accessible and currently reaches people from dozens of institutes across 37 countries. The wide interest evidences a demand for cutting-edge science on climate and environmental change. Do join us live on Mondays from 4-5pm or watch some of the previous lectures on the link below!Dr A Reesink, Teacher of Geography and Physics […]
13 November 2020