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Space Week 15th May 2023

15th May 2023

Week begining 15th May, The Marchant Holliday School was blasted into space for science week! Throughout the week we took part in a range of exciting space-themed activities.

As classes, we put our teamwork skills and creativity to the test to design and make board games ready for other classes to enjoy. Lots of classes prepared to become astronauts with some space training and we put that into practice with a whole school challenge; we attempted to walk the distance from Earth to the ISS! Our task was, collectively, to walk 1000 laps of the school field in one week- although we didn’t quite make it, our valiant efforts got us close at 812 laps!

We had some special visitors during the week; on Wednesday, Explorer Dome brought their planetarium to school and wowed us with some incredible visuals and facts about plants, moons and stars, we learned the origin story of Orion’s Belt and marvelled at the constellations.

Thursday was focused on rockets; Jo Richardson from Space Detectives visited for an amazing rocket-building workshop! We learned all about space shuttles, built our own and then launched them in the school grounds.

To finish our week, we had a carousel of exciting activities from building edible constellations to exploring the galaxies artistically. By the end of the week, we were space experts, ready for take off!