Attention NASA! Stewards school has a whole bunch of budding astronauts that you might be interested in soon. Year 8 cohort spent the whole of Tuesday in Space. They began the day with a ‘Who Done It?’. A group of 7 aliens were taking part in a competition; they had all produced a project which was locked in a safe in their living quarters. Lucy was the favourite to win the competition, and her hopes were scuppered by someone who broke into her safe and destroyed her project. Year 8’s task was to sift through the evidence scientifically to find the culprit. Later on they all found out what it would be like to be an astronaut. Year 8 found out that astronauts can be pilots, engineers, scientists or even teachers but they must be fit.  During training astronauts must learn to speak English and Russian; Year 8 learnt the Russian alphabet and a few Russian words like ‘kosmonav’ and ‘kosmos’ . The design of the Space suits worn by astronauts are very important so the students designed their own taking into account the harsh conditions out in space. Travelling in space was another aspect of the day so they learnt about rockets and even made some.  All the students entered an in-house competition by writing a letter to NASA applying to go to Space Camp to be an astronaut. The winning entries  were given free tickets to go to the Science Museum Live On Tour show at Harlow Playhouse.

 
Legend for Photo: Making alien headbands for the ‘Who Done It?’ activity.From left to right:  Corey Harrison 8JG, Lilly Stavrou 8THH, Rachel Brett 8THH, Austin Dixon 8DJ, Brandon Payne 8CPT and Aiden Kimber 8HS.