IN BRIEF
A ‘TIMSPIRATIONAL’ TIME
HAD BY STUDENTS
STEWART MILNE HOMES
SPREADS FESTIVE CHEER
Students from Birkenhead School are coming back down
to earth after being one of a small number of schools
chosen to present to Astronaut Tim Peake at the Principia
Mission’s Schools’ Conference that took place recently at
the University of York.
Stewart Milne Homes has donated two giant
Christmas trees, bringing festive cheer to patients
and staff at Wirral’s Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge
hospitals.
The conference was run by the UK Space Agency to celebrate the
imaginative work that children across the country have done linked
to Tim Peake’s Principia mission to the International Space Station.
The School beat competition from schools across the UK to meet Tim.
Students from Year 4 to Lower Sixth presented on how his mission
had inspired their studies which ranged from analysing seeds that had
been in space to observing the transit of Mercury moving across the
Sun through the School’s telescope.
Mr Paul Vicars, Headmaster, said “We are extremely proud of our
students being selected to present to Tim Peake at the Principia
Conference in recognition of the range and quality of work that they
had completed. Mrs Sharon Tharme and Dr Sue Jarvis worked closely
with them and have truly inspired an interest and passion in Space. I
am confident that this exceptional opportunity will stay with them for
the rest of their lives”.
The opportunity to meet Tim Peake was just one of a number of space
related activities that the School has on offer for students. The School
runs a weekly Astronomy Club and in February next year, a group of
20 girls will be visiting NASA in Texas, US, as part of a STEM Sisters
trip and will be taking part in an engineering mis