We travelled to Preston to find out about the features of the Lostock River. We learnt about the different parts of the river and river processes, including erosion and deposition on a meander. Lostock also has an ox-bow lake and the children were able to compare and contrast this to the meander we had studied. Finally, the children took a kick-sample of the mini-beasts that live in the river in order to find out how clean the water was. Our judgement was the water was very clean!