The Lancing Geographer

A team of Lower Sixth 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 A Level coursework. Articles in this year’s journal include a look at attitudes towards climate change in Costa Rica, volcanism in La Palma, an interview with a UN Aid Worker as well as the winning entries from the Geography and Music Competition. The stunning front cover image was taken by the students themselves during the Barcelona field trip earlier in the year. The journal, as well as all the previous editions, can be downloaded from the Geography pages of the College website.

Dr Richard Bustin, Head of Geography

Geography and Music Competition

This term the Geography and Music Departments teamed up to offer a unique competition. Students had to write a set of lyrics about a place that meant something to them. They were given some contemporary examples to use as inspiration, such as Jay-Z and Alicia Key’s Empire State of Mind which is all about New York.

Worthing My Home – Sophia Bolton (Verses to be rapped, chorus to be sung)

Broadwater, Durrington, Offington and Heene. From Findon to Ferring (Which I’m not comparing!) Town Centre, Tarring And everywhere in between. Since Twelve ninety-seven, Full of history. Wilde, Shelley, and Austen, Wrote books we get lost in. Why they came to my town? It’s still a mystery. Worthing.

From the pier to the beach, to the Dome. Worthing.

It’s the place that I call home.

We received a range of fantastic entries including Isaac Hussey’s song about the Norfolk Broads; Amelia Gilchrist’s My Love Dubai; Emily Stewart’s Bognor and Jethro Steele’s Ikea Congratulations to Sophia Bolton who won overall with her entry Worthing My Home. Sophia will now get the chance to record her song in the Music Department.

The beach, it goes for miles. Pebbles all along.

It’s not the Caribbean, Or even the Aegean But the hordes still bathe, In bikinis and sarongs. Windy in the winter, Stormy in the spring. Autumn has the fireworks, (We gotta have some perks), And in the summer There’s things that bite and sting. Worthing.

From the pier to the beach, to the Dome. Worthing.

It’s the place that I call home.

Nothing to do, no shops, Nowhere for kids to play. The old are full of gloom, (It’s God’s waiting room). But despite all that It’s where I want to stay. I can hate it, curse it, Have the right to moan. But if you outsidies

Try to get all snidey, I’m gonna tell you, To leave Worthing alone. Cos Worthing.

From the pier to the beach, to the Dome. Worthing.

It’s the place that I call home.

Third Form Geography Field Work

Each year group in the College gets the chance to learn geography in the real world. The Third Form spent a blisteringly hot summer term day investigating the question ‘To what extent is our local environment natural?’ Students walked from the College along the Adur to Shoreham Beach, stopping off at a variety of places to measure noise pollution, environmental quality, complete an annotated field sketch, and measure movement of the waves.

By the end of the day they were able to see that this was not a simple question to answer. They found a variety of natural processes shaping the landscape, such as the underlying rock type, tides, waves, beach deposition as well as human activities such as raising the river’s banks to prevent tidal flooding, altering the landscape for farming and settlement.