Y5's Space Museum
Chevening CEP School
THE STEM HUB
Would you like to join in the STEM HUB's Mars competition?
Click on the picture to visit their site or look at our Mars Base ideas below...
UK Space Agency & RoboKids space show - 2 New Dates!!!
You could also watch a great free space show about Mars and space travel. Click for free tickets...
5th March and 12th March
NASA JPL inspired posters
In Frank's first video we found out that NASA produced their own tourist posters to the planets. Click on Kepler to look at the Nasa posters. We have made some of our own using our research here...
YouTube with Frank!
Frank Cottrell-Boyce has been broadcasting live over lock-down.
You can see his videos here. Can you spot the Chevening, Chipstead and Sevenoaks shout-outs? :-)
Click on the picture and then again on the message to open via YouTube.
Click to return to command control
Click below to hear Frank read
Sophie's poem...
Perseverance Poems
and free writing...
We were so pleased to hear Frank read out Sophie's Perseverance poem online. Here it is with some other great work marking Perseverance's landing on Mars.
Cold Planet - Cold War
Below is Leo's amazing story idea he came up with while we were joining in with Frank's 5 minutes of 'Just Write!!!" Click through the 3 pages and enjoy!
Sophie's Poem
Landed!
I sent my first tweet,
Saying I am safe inside.
However,
I felt completely - terrified.
The more I looked around,
The more scared I was.
The place was red,
Red because of iron oxide…
Like a blanket of dust.
Coldness, wind, nothingness
Where do I begin?
Leo's Short Story...
Runaway Robot
If you enjoyed the first installment of Leo's story, you might like to read Frank Cottrell-Boyce's book while we wait for Leo to write Chapter 2!
ESA Competition
How would you like your artwork to be flying to Jupiter on the nose cone of the next ESA mission into space?
Why not enter the competition here?
Cosmic Mission to Mars!
Here is some more dramatic writing and poetry inspired by Cosmic's rocket spinning out of control and NASA JPL's Perseverance mission to Mars...
Cosmic Music from Mission Control
Click on the video to listen to our compositions. Then try to match each piece to our characters or books on the sheet on the left.
Can you guess all 8 correctly?
Do you think the space and robot books have something in common? What is special about the music for science fiction?