Tuesday

1 November

We were then given equipment such as a tape measure, a meter rule, quadrant and a clipboard, and later we split into groups of three and one group of two.

At 11:00am the field team began a recognisance walk to explore the local coastline, Slapton Sands. We observed the types of plants, the human population, and the salinity of the soil, seed dispersion, moisture content and many other issues for an environmental survey. Students took the opportunity to investigate the social, economic and environmental impacts of tourism, using Tocross Bay as a case study area.

The team then gathered for an investigation of the flora and fauna of at the Slapton shingle beach.

We strolled back to the Slapton Ley Field Centre, to rest for about 40 minutes and soon made our way to the soil lab where we planned to calculate for soil moisture.

The group gathered again after dinner for a seminar on data analysis.

Wednesday

2^nd November

Later in the   evening the course instructors, Nick and Chloe with the assistance of the accompanying teachers (Richmond, Michael and Yvonne) guided the students to prepare a proposal and practical scheme of work for their own IA.

Geography students took a trip to Dartmouth, a coastal town, and honeypot centre for tourism. Students worked in groups of three to collect a variety of data from five survey zones for their Geography  IA. The group arrived at FSC by 4:30pm where the data was collated and pooled together for analysis.

There was a seminar after dinner which gave the students an opportunity to learn variety of skills for the treatment and analysis of  the data collected.

The data collected were sent to the FSC lab for further analysis.

Later in the evening, series of seminars on statistical techniques for data analysis were organised for the students.

The Geography students stayed at the FSC seminar room under the supervision of Miss Tagoe and started the write-up their IA.

The day was mostly dedicated to the write-up of IAs. Workshops were organised through-out the sessions to explain how to appropriately present, analyse and evaluate data. The accompanying teachers and the course instructor provided the technical assistance for the write-up.

At 12:30pm, the group then proceeded to Plymouth, an urban centre which is about an hour drive away from The Field Centre for shopping. The team arrived at 6:15pm at  the Field Centre, had dinner at 7:00pm, cleared and cleaned the labs, packed luggage and departed out of the centre at 11pm.

Saturday, 5 November

Arrived in transit at Schiphol airport (Amsterdam) at 11:05am.

Lunch at 11:30am and thereafter departure from Schiphol airport at 2:25pm.

Arrival at Kotoka International Airport, Accra at 8:10pm.