School friendly experiences
Our signature experience involves the most amazing darkened classroom, perfectly designed to teach the space topic. We've been educating school children using our domes for over twenty years WOWing thousands of children over the year.
We pride ourselves in offering curricuculum-focused and presenter-led content in a unique and fun setting. Our experienced staff can tailor the experience to your age group or accomodate specialist needs.
Our Foundation experience is a gentle introduction to the topic with plenty of interaction and fun elements to engage the children. At Key-Stage 1 we keep the fun but go deeper into the topic elements. For Key-Stage 2 we focus on delivering the critical curricuculum content.
Every experience finishes with an amazing tour of the night sky, as our presenter brings to life the constellations and heavenly bodies. It really does put the WOW into your space topic.
Our Experiences
These are our most popular curriculum focused experiences, but we are happy to incorporate material relevant to your topic - please just ask when booking! These experiences are usually an hour long and we can fit up to five in a normal school day. Don't forget you can also add a practical workshop experience two bookings of 1 or 2 planetarium shows.
Earth and Space
Our main presentation for KS2 is designed to cover and expand upon The National Curriculum 'Earth and Space'. We will demonstrate how we have day and night on planet Earth and why we see the phases of the Moon ensuring that the children can understand the movement of the Earth and Moon relative to the Sun. This is especially effective in the darkened environment provided by the planetarium. We will also take a look at all of the planets and dwarf planets in the solar system discussing their size and shape, distance from the sun and distinguishing features. The stars and constellations are also covered and much much more. The presentation is suitable at any time during your period of study, either to introduce the subject, help during or to complete and summarise at the end.
This is a curriculum-based experience that is suitable for the following school year groups: KS2, KS3
Light and Dark
A favourite topic, we take a look at why we have day and night here on planet Earth. Light sources and the different animals that come out at night are investigated along with the sounds you might hear at night time, before letting the children experience, in a caring and fun way, what it is like in complete darkness as we stargaze in the safe planetarium environment.
This is a curriculum-based experience that is suitable for the following school year groups: EYFS, KS1
Greek Mythology
Have you ever wondered how the constellations got their names? Taking you back to the time of Ancient Greece we go on a journey of discovery to find out. Orion, Cassiopeia, Cephus and Andromeda will tell you their story! This presentation is suitable for all ages and explains the Greek perception of the Universe and the link between the ancient gods and the constellation names. This is a superb way to develop the topic of space for science, history and literacy and fully complements every Key Stage curriculum.
This is a curriculum-based experience that is suitable for the following school year groups: KS2, KS3
The Planets
We will bring you up to date with the latest information about the planets of the Solar System. Pluto's status as a Dwarf Planet will be carefully explained and of course we will not forget the Moon and the Sun.
This is a curriculum-based experience that is suitable for the following school year groups: KS1, KS2, KS3