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Safety

G Hartland (2006)

Medina Valley Centre has an outstanding record for the safety and security of pupils and teachers and operates under strict safety policies and procedures. Medina Valley Centre is AALA (Adventure Activities Licensing Authority) recognised for sailing and canoeing (licence number R0308).

Medina Valley Centre is CRB compliant and each member of staff wears an identification badge. Visiting teachers and party leaders are also required to wear a Medina Valley Centre badge. On site security is to a high standard and CCTV is in operation.

Risk Assessments, which comply with the DfES guidelines, are written for each activity and students are encouraged to assess the risks for each activity themselves, before being given a safety brief from the Centre’s staff.

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Offsite fieldwork is carried out to a high safety standard. The study sites are carefully chosen and are well known and regularly used by Medina Valley Centre staff. Field study tutors are all First Aid qualified and carry a First Aid Kit at all times, along with a bivvy bag, throw line and mobile telephone.

Risk Assessments

A list of risk assessments hyperlinked to download in pdf format. Divided up into junior, biology and geography. All documents © Medina Valley Centre.

AS & A2 Biology

  1. Boat work in Medina estuary or Solent
  2. Civic Ammenity site visit
  3. Crab trapping at MVC
  4. Dredging and trawling
  5. Farm study
  6. Guided walk around MVC nature trail
  7. Individual project work at seashore
  8. Invertebrate sampling in mudflats and lagoons
  9. Isle of Wight Zoo visit
  10. Laboratory work at MVC
  11. Management study of Medina valley
  12. Moth trapping
  13. Pond studies
  14. River studies
  15. Rocky shore studies
  16. Saltmarsh study at Newtown
  17. Saltmarsh study at Yarmouth
  18. Small mammal trapping
  19. Tomato farm visit
  20. Water sampling at MVC pontoon
  21. Woodland management in Parkhurst forest

AS & A2 Geography

  1. Coastal landforms & protection
  2. Coastal management Bembridge  
  3. Estuary mudflats
  4. Geology, land use & wind farm
  5. Investigations of extreme sports in AONB
  6. Landslip zone
  7. Navigating in countryside
  8. Newport's urban-rural fringe
  9. Newport St Cross Business Park
  10. River study Medina Lukely Caul Bourne
  11. Rural settlement
  12. Saltmarsh Newtown Bembridge mill pond & West Yar
  13. Sand dunes, Bembridge Point, The Duver
  14. Tourism in Sandown, Ventnor & Shanklin
  15. Urban fieldwork in Isle of Wight towns
  16. Walking coastal paths
  17. Wind farm Cheverton & Ventnor Downs
  18. Farms

KS4 (GCSE) Geography

  1. Coastal studies
  2. Land use in the Medina Valley
  3. Micro climate investigation at MVC
  4. The Military Road issue
  5. River studies R. Medina & Lukely Brook
  6. River studies R. Caul Bourne & Buddle Brook
  7. Urban investigations in Newport
  8. Village studies

KS4 (GCSE) Science

  1. Civic amenity site visit
  2. Isle of Wight Zoo visit
  3. Local pond studies
  4. Moth trapping at MVC
  5. Rocky shore studies
  6. Stream studies
  7. Tomato farm visit
  8. Woodland studies

KS2, KS3 & CEE Junior

  1. 'Eco Challenge'
  2. Weather Trail
  3. Dodnor Trail
  4. Dodnor Detectives
  5. Environmental Trail
  6. Medina Valley Land Use
  7. Science Trail
  8. Trolley Building
  9. Medina Mud
  10. Pond Study
  11. Rocky Shore Study
  12. Stream Study
  13. Woodland Studies
  14. Scavenger Hunt
  15. Village Study
  16. Town Study
  17. Osborne House
  18. Alum Bay visit
  19. Coastal Studies St Catherine's
  20. Hiking in West Wight
  21. 'Fossil Island' coastal walk
  22. 'Fossil Island/Geology Time' walk
  23. Team Challenge
  24. Introduction to Orienteering 1 (MVC)
  25. Introduction to Orienteering 2 (Parkhurst Forest)




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