BUDEHAVEN Community School Year 12 student, Katie Loader, has been awarded a place on this year’s prestigious Royal Geographical Society Summer School in the Yorkshire Wolds.

Since 2008, the Learning and Leading programme, run by the RGS, has held a fully funded, residential fieldwork summer school for just 16 geography students coming to the end of their first year of AS studies, or equivalent.

This national programme provides sixth form geographers with the chance to participate in a variety of outdoor fieldwork, guided by experienced tutors from specialist field centre.

This year, the programme will be based at Cranedale, and will build upon the students’ subject based knowledge and skills.

With classroom based GIS and data analysis sessions in the evenings, this full-on week also presents an opportunity for like-minded young geographers like Katie to share their interests and experience a taste of university life.

Katie now joins a small but esteemed list of successful Budehaven geographers who, over the years, have been awarded a place on this national programme, including Shannon Salisbury, Louise Kerr and Hannah Lennox.

The school has offered their congratulations to Katie.