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Science Day

St Ambrose celebrated the end of Major Tim Peake’s incredible mission on the International Space Station with a BANG! On Thursday 16th June the awesome Skybolt Rocket arrived at our school, and the children took part in Science Day.

We were visited by Cliff Porter, a European Space Agency Ambassador, Steve Bennett from Starchaser Industries, a company that aims to be a viable business in space tourism and Derek Stanley, Science Officer, from the Local Education Authority.

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It was a fun-filled day and the children and staff thoroughly enjoyed taking part in lots of science experiments and space related activities.  We had science shows with lots of amazing chemical reactions, designing and testing parachutes, making a solar system, handling space artefacts, such as Russian space food, a space shuttle thermal tile and meteorites! The children also built and launched their own air powered model rockets in the Rocket Factory.

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The day concluded with the launch of a 1 metre starchaser rocket, powered by real rocket fuel!  It flew hundreds of feet into the air, returning safely via parachute.

 

The day was a great success as the children have been inspired by the Tim Peake Primary Science Project.  We are sure their interest and exploration of science will continue.