Allander Water Nat 4/5 Field Trip

Our final river study field trip for Nat 4/5 took us to 3 parts of the Allander Water in  & around Milngavie. We had fantastic weather and were able to prove beyond any doubt that dogs are totally rubbish at field work!

Kindrogan Trip march 2015

Our annual visit to Kindrogan Field Studies Centre included some fantastic weather and a solar eclipse...not to mention some cool (and a bit wet) river studies and a bit of crate-building too.

Oh and we also managed to do all the work we needed to complete our added value units.

Click on the nat 4/5/6 link at the side of the page for more pictures.

S1 trip to Our Dynamic Earth Dec & Jan 2014/15

Our S1 trips to Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh were so popular this year than we had to hire an extra coach...and we still had a reserve list!
Pupils enjoyed the updated parts of the tour before sitting back and settling down to enjoy the movie in the show dome. After a tasty lunch - mostly popcorn and chips'n'cheese'n'gravy we headed back 'to the west'. Well done to everyone for behaving well and completing almost all of your worksheets.
More pics if you click on the S1 link at the right hand side of this page.

National 4/5/6 Loch Lomond Visit

National 4/5 took a trip to 'the other side' of Loch Lomond for a wee change of scenery. We found out about the glaciated land use and impact of tourism on the area. The 'string game' was a great way of finding out how land use conflicts can impact a wide number of land users.
See more pictures on the link at the right hand side of this page...

Nat 5/6 Urban 'Road Trip'

National 5&6 pupils set off on a 'straight line' trip from the edge to the centre of Glasgow. On the way they noted environmental changes, changes in land use, building style and age. A fine selection field sketches were produced while standing on a walkway over the Expressway (while passing drivers hooted their horns). Finally the city centre was in sight and thoughts turned to lunch. A quick survey upon pupil's return to the meeting point revealed that they had indulged in a varied range of fast food options and full points were awarded to the boys who were actually paid to eat a free lunch - well done! A bit of 'unofficial' shopping may also have been squeezed into the time.
The final destination was around the redeveloped Gorbals area of the city which everyone agreed now appreared to be a very desirable area and not what had been expected.
More pictures can be seen on the National 4/5/6 link at the right hand side of this page.

S2 Orienteering at Mugdock Country Park

Our first trip of the new session saw S2 heading to Mugdock Country Park to experiment with their new-found map reading skills. After an introduction to the park from one of the Mugdock rangers the pupils headed off at timed intervals around the 'basic' orienteering course. Despite a few detours on the way (did you LOOK at the map?) everyone returned in good time for an early lunch. Pupils then chose a small part to attempt from the larger and more demanding main orienteering course.
Well done to everyone who took part.
More pictures can be viewed by clicking on the CfE S2 link at the right hand side of this page.

Welcome back to the 2014/15 Session at Clydebankgeography

A big 'welcome back' to all our Geography pupils at CHS and an extra big 'Welcome' to our new S1 pupils! We're sure that you will have a great time with us this year and we have a fine selection of trips lined up for each year group...starting with S2 in September.
This year Clydebankgeography headed to the glorious beaches on the Yorkshire coast to create the 'welcome' sandcastle. The 1-D design was chosen mainly because it was just too darned hot to create anything else! Clydebankgeography also enjoyed accidentally being part of a beach survey done by  a 'swarm' of geography students from another geography department, but had to resist the urge to join-in because it was the holidays. Clydebankgeography likes the collective term 'swarm' to describe geographers busy at their fieldwork and may use it in further reports this session...