Space Camp 2018

On Thursday night we had a memorable evening at school - Space Camp. The Y5 children did a lot of different activities and then slept over in the school hall. We were fortunate enough to have had a clear evening so the children were able to see star constellations, the moon and the planet Venus from the car park. Photographs to follow on our website this week.

The children took some of the pictures using Mr Steggall's camera. The moon was a crescent and this meant that the sky was not flooded with light so we could see some of the stars. Venus was clearly visible.

#cosmicclassroom: @astro_timpeake inspires pupils on planet Earth ow.ly/XRg3G

Have a look at this everyone......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35473179

Class 2 join Tim Peake in Space!!

Wow ... What an exciting afternoon we have had here in Class 2.  We joined the 'cosmic classroom' and connected live to Tim Peake in Space!  We listened to Tim Peake answer lots of questions and saw him rolling around in his space craft.  We all loved it!  I have uploaded some photographs onto the Class 2 section of the website.

#CosmicClassroom

4 hours ago

Here are our questions for @astro_timpeake #class3 Today the children from Class 3 thought of questions they would like to ask the astronaut Tim Peake.

We have entered a competition which gives us the chance of linking up with him live while he travels around in the Space Station.

We had to post the questions on twitter to be in with a chance.

Space fruit!

Well we have had some strange fruit here today in Class 2!  Freyja went to the Space Centre at the weekend (handy as Class 2 are currently learning about Neil Armstrong and Earth and Space!) and brought back some freeze-dried strawberries.  Freyja told us all about them and how astronauts have them  to eat in space.  Freyja let us open them and some of us lucky ones got to taste them ... Martha and Sophia enjoyed them but Mrs P wasn't too keen!! 

Space Station tonight Tuesday

The NASA space station is orbiting the earth all the time. It  passed over the UK at 7.16 and 8.51 yesterday. I've seen it up in the sky. It is a very bright white light moving very fast.
It will come around again at 7.59 tonight (Tuesday) so if you are still up have a look out of the window to see if you can see it.
The space station is 150 miles above the earth and has 7 scientists working in it! Why don't you give them a wave?
Follow this link to find out more....
http://spotthestation.nasa.gov