This week Year 3 visited the local village of Brantingham to carry out some fieldwork as part of our geography lesson.

We walked through the village looking closely at all the different physical and Human features. We discovered lots of physical features such as the fields, the village green, trees and bushes. We discussed the types of land use in the area and talked about all the fields we could see with cattle such as sheep. We concluded that this land was agricultural as we could see the animals living on the land. As we looked at human features of the village such as the village hall and the cottages we discussed how this land was also residential.

On our walk around Brantingham, we completed a traffic survey. We recorded all the traffic that passed us in a 10 minute period. Lots of us thought we would see lots of cars but we didn’t. We passed a sign that said no HGV’s down a small country lane so we decided that we would not see a lorry, we were right.

Over the 10 minutes that we recorded we only saw a small number of cars, some of us saw a push bike and some of us saw a tractor. The roads in the village were very quiet. Whilst we carried out our traffic survey we could hear the sheep in the fields and the birds in the trees, it was very peaceful.

We finished our fieldwork off with creating a sketch map of the village so we can compare Brantingham with a town.

We cannot wait to go on our next fieldwork trip to be able to do a land, features and traffic comparison of different areas.