The STEM Hub coordinated a space related STEM event at Moon Hall School, a specialist school for dyslexic students aged 7-16 years, on 10 October 2022 which was supported by Engineering UK’s Big Bang at School programme.

This was the first STEM event held at the school to introduce its STEM programme which it plans to grow and take forward for the future. All year groups participated in inspiring space related STEM activities to help them get creative and find their flair for STEM whilst celebrating World Space Week.

Juniors started the day learning about the solar system from the University of Sussex’s outreach team, before designing and making their own planets whilst secondary students began the day stargazing the universe from inside a huge, inflatable planetarium hosted by STEM Ambassador Dr Mark Gallaway from Starlight STEM. The science shows covered the Sun, aurora, the Earth, the Moon, the Solar System including all eight planets, comets, dwarf planets and asteroids plus some of the major moons before moving out to the Milky Way and the Super Massive Black Hole in its core.

Throughout the day, students rotated around space themed IT activities including making their own rockets and firing them to see how far they would travel. The juniors also did a spot of astronaut training during their PE and Games sessions.

There were some great comments received from students:

• “It was fun…it was excellent…making rockets was ‘out of this world’ – real Astroblast!” 
• “I absolutely loved the planetarium dome.  It was so good. It was just so like looking up and seeing our universe.”
•  “Rockets were so much fun. It was a good change from normal lessons.”

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