This week our Year 8 and Year 10 students have been on a history and geography trip to Slapton Sands and Brixham.
At Slapton Sands, students saw the WWII tank. They have been learning about the D-Day landings and being able to visit the location of the practice exercises helped to bring the event to life for our students. Students were able to see the effects of the failed D-Day landing rehearsal that ended in the death of hundreds of soldiers.
They then went to Start Point and completed a coastal walk focusing on different costal landforms such as caves, arches, stacks and stumps.
Students learnt about how Slapton forms a bay with beaches and two prominent headlands. They then had fun searching for perfectly round pebbles which are formed from an erosion process called attrition.
Finally, students travelled to Brixham where they visited the war memorial and discussed the poppy wreaths that have been prepared and displayed ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on 6th June.
They also studied another stump and a cave at Brixham’s Breakwater and ended their day by ringing the tide bell on the Breakwater beach.