Geology

Course summary

Geology is a practical, broad based and multidisciplinary subject suiting pupils who are interested in the World around them. Practical tasks are undertaken on field trips and in the classroom/laboratory. Geology impacts on our everyday lives due to natural events, and also as consumers of the Earth’s dwindling resources. The mantra ‘if we can’t grow it we have got to dig it’ means that there is demand for geologists. Geology pupils need to be numerate, literate and computer literate and have experience of problem solving in a variety of related subject areas. 84 Wells pupils have gone to read geology at university in recent years.