In May this year, Armagh Planetarium ran a competition to design a logo to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first man to walk on the moon. We were delighted that Demi, who is now P6, won the competition. Her logo, along with other prize winning entries, has been made into bunting. Demi’s prize was a trip to the Planetarium for pupils from our school. P5,6 and 7 travelled to Armagh on Monday 14th October and enjoyed an exciting day there.
The children made rockets and launched them. They also saw the Boveedy Meteorite which was found by Mrs Gilmore’s husband when he was a boy. The children got to hold meteorite rock and they discovered that it felt heavier than ordinary rock and that it smelt of metal. Most meteorites fall in the ocean or in Russia as it is the largest country in the world. They saw a model of the international space station and were given lots of information about it. The toilets on the space station cost £12 million. The astronauts sleep upright, zipped in their sleeping bags. The children also saw a film in the dome theatre.
