Just before the summer term ended the then year 2s had a fabulous session about space exploration and the difficulties that human bodies might encounter on Mars. Mrs Garczynski and Dr Seeta ran a fabulous session for the girls where they found out about the potential problems on Mars, thought creatively about ways to solve those problems and designed space suits to help cope with the demands. The girls came up with some really good ideas and their space suit designs looked terrific.
On Saturday Arabella and Lucia, and their families, were invited to attend The Physiological Society’s annual President’s Lecture, held at the Royal Institution. They had an amazing time taking part in a range of hands on activities as well as listening to a talk given by former NASA astronaut and physiologist James Pawelczyk all about the human limits of space exploration. Both of the girls had been shortlisted in the 5-7 age range of the competition and Arabella’s design was chosen as the overall winner. Very many congratulations go to Arabella and to Lucia. Also very many congratulations to Ewan who was also shortlisted in the 5-7 age category and attends Burlington Infants School which is one of the schools we have been working with in our Primary Science Quality Mark hub this year. What a wonderful opportunity to spend the afternoon with an astronaut!
