Safety
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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.
>> Download risk assessments
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
- Boat work in Medina estuary or Solent
- Civic Ammenity site visit
- Crab trapping at MVC
- Dredging and trawling
- Farm study
- Guided walk around MVC nature trail
- Individual project work at seashore
- Invertebrate sampling in mudflats and lagoons
- Isle of Wight Zoo visit
- Laboratory work at MVC
- Management study of Medina valley
- Moth trapping
- Pond studies
- River studies
- Rocky shore studies
- Saltmarsh study at Newtown
- Saltmarsh study at Yarmouth
- Small mammal trapping
- Tomato farm visit
- Water sampling at MVC pontoon
- Woodland management in Parkhurst forest
AS & A2 Geography
- Coastal landforms & protection
- Coastal management Bembridge
- Estuary mudflats
- Geology, land use & wind farm
- Investigations of extreme sports in AONB
- Landslip zone
- Navigating in countryside
- Newport's urban-rural fringe
- Newport St Cross Business Park
- River study Medina Lukely Caul Bourne
- Rural settlement
- Saltmarsh Newtown Bembridge mill pond & West Yar
- Sand dunes, Bembridge Point, The Duver
- Tourism in Sandown, Ventnor & Shanklin
- Urban fieldwork in Isle of Wight towns
- Walking coastal paths
- Wind farm Cheverton & Ventnor Downs
- Farms
KS4 (GCSE) Geography
- Coastal studies
- Land use in the Medina Valley
- Micro climate investigation at MVC
- The Military Road issue
- River studies R. Medina & Lukely Brook
- River studies R. Caul Bourne & Buddle Brook
- Urban investigations in Newport
- Village studies
KS4 (GCSE) Science
- Civic amenity site visit
- Isle of Wight Zoo visit
- Local pond studies
- Moth trapping at MVC
- Rocky shore studies
- Stream studies
- Tomato farm visit
- Woodland studies
KS2, KS3 & CEE Junior
- 'Eco Challenge'
- Weather Trail
- Dodnor Trail
- Dodnor Detectives
- Environmental Trail
- Medina Valley Land Use
- Science Trail
- Trolley Building
- Medina Mud
- Pond Study
- Rocky Shore Study
- Stream Study
- Woodland Studies
- Scavenger Hunt
- Village Study
- Town Study
- Osborne House
- Alum Bay visit
- Coastal Studies St Catherine's
- Hiking in West Wight
- 'Fossil Island' coastal walk
- 'Fossil Island/Geology Time' walk
- Team Challenge
- Introduction to Orienteering 1 (MVC)
- Introduction to Orienteering 2 (Parkhurst Forest)
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