The photographs show plaster casts being prepared of a gull’s footprints, pine tree saplings being pulled up so they do not take over the dunes (which they would given half a chance!) and using quadrats to identify living things on the dunes and salt marsh – we calculated that as there were 25 squares on the quadrat each row would be worth 20% therefore one square would be a fifth of that meaning 4%. Looking at the algae on the salt marsh we estimated that 32% was within the quadrat and that this was very close to one third. We took a water sample from Morston and will check for salinity back at school, we also checked the tide height and discovered it was much lower than predicted – we researched this too.

This was a great session with ‘hands on’ activities helping us really understand the fragile nature of our coastline. We are looking forward to developing our work with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust over the coming weeks, keep a look out on the web site.