GCSE geography goes underground!
4 February 2018
Priory's Geography ‘Gifted & Talented’ GCSE pupils took time out of their weekend to join Mr Watters and teacher trainee, Mr Kelly, on a day long intervention visit.
The group travelled by school minibus over to Ingleton to explore the National Heritage show cave system. The limestone cave system is the longest and largest underground formation in the United Kingdom. The pupils really enjoyed their visit and learnt much from the two hour long personalised clamber. The snow on the ground meant the cave system’s underground river was fantastic and filled the passageways under their feet.
Pupils wondered at the waterfalls, avons, battlefield cavern and amazing calcite formations. A hot chocolate or two were most welcome as the air temperature in the cave system never altered from just 8 degrees throughout the visit.
Thank you to our excellent pupils; the cave leader was very impressed by their enthusiasm and great knowledge when asked questions.
No one lost their helmets despite the low crawl through several prolonged scrambles!
Well done to our Geography pupils.
