This half-term, our lunchtime Year 7 Astronomy Club have been learning how to use our observatory control room and telescope, exploring the principles of light and magnification, using binoculars to observe animals and plants on the horizon beyond school (as well as spying on what some of their friends are up to on the playground!) and taking advantage of the clearer skies to observe the motion of sunspots across the solar surface, as well as the atmosphere above, the solar corona or ‘crown’.
Congratulations to our Year 7 Astronomers this half-term who have successfully completed the training course to operate our observatory and received their well deserved certificates; we look forward to working with you next year as Year 8 Astronomy Ambassadors!
Do Try This at Home!
Finally, from all of the Science at Sharples team, we hope you have a great half-term break, and if you are looking for something engaging and educational ‘Do Try This at Home’ is a series of fun Science experiments with short demonstration videos and simple, step-by-step instructions that can be carried out using only household objects: https://www.iop.org/explore-physics/at-home#gref
Mr J. Harding – Science Enrichment Coordinator, Space Education Lead
