This month students from Year 8 have been on an exciting field trip to Robin Hoods Bay in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park as part of their Geography lessons this term.

This month students from Year 8 have been on an exciting field trip to Robin Hoods Bay in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park as part of their Geography lessons this term.

Year 8 have been learning about Britain's 12,430 km coastline in Geography lessons: how it varies from place to place; the landforms that are formed there; how it is eroded; how it is protected; and what people use it for. Robin Hoods Bay is part of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park and is an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Lots of tourists visit the pretty little village known by locals as 'Bay Town'. This whole stretch of coastline is eroding away quite quickly (30cm a year) and the village would have been washed away by the sea long ago if it wasn't for the massive sea defences built there! Robin Hoods Bay has the highest sea walls in Britain and there are good examples here of both older and more modern types of sea defences. Year 8 were learning about how this 'Dinosaur Coast' was formed, how it had changed and whether or not the sea defences were working'