Home Education Day
A day dedicated to home educated children and their families.
- 15th - 16th May 2024
- Ticket includes ONE Child and ONE Adult
- Workshop, Show and Talk Included
- Free Time to Explore the Exhibition
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Home Education Day
The National Space Centre’s Education team is hosting a day of talks, workshops and shows in the Planetarium to home schooled children.
Join the team to find out more about Our World From Space in day of exploration.
Suitable for children from 6-14, sessions will allow children and adults to work together to achieve their own learning goals (children remain the responsibility of accompanying adults at all times).
Group 3 for 6-9 and 9-12 ages has been dedicated to SEND children and families.
This Month's Theme
Our subject for this Home Education Day is Our World from Space.
- Price for ONE child and ONE adult £24.99 (including workshop, talk, show, science busking, downloadable resources, and entry to the Centre).
- Adults must remain with child at all times (PLEASE NOTE - this ticket does not include additional children/adults).
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SEND Sessions
SEND sessions all have a relaxed quiet room during the activities if needed, and longer workshop sessions for less intensive activities. Families are also welcome to join the other talks during the day, however, this content will be shared in the main session as well.
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Workshop - Weather
- Group 1 - 10:15 / Group 2 - 11:45 / Group 3 SEND - 10:15
Through practical hands-on experiments and demonstrations children will learn about different weather types, how they are formed and forecast.
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Talk - From Spaceports to Orbit
- Group 1 - 13:30 / Group 2 - 13:30
In this explosive talk, find out how we launch Earth observation satellites to space, how they work, and what they do there.
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Planetarium Show - We Are Guardians
- Group 1 - 14:20 / Group 2 - 14:20 / Group 3 SEND - 11:40
The world, its peoples and environments are connected and interdependent. From the smallest bacteria to the largest ocean whale; there exists a link between all things. In a world out of balance, We Are Guardians looks at how ecosystems are intrinsically connected and with the increasing use of Satellite Monitoring, examines the links between human activities and climate change.
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Workshop - Satellite Survival
- Group 1 - 13:15 / Group 2 - 14:30 / Group 3 SEND - 14:00
This creative workshop will put students' engineering and design skills to the test as they build a protective satellite fairing to save their payload from the dread shake test!
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Talk - From Spaceports to Orbit
- Group 1 - 12:30 / Group 2 - 12:30
In this explosive talk, find out how we launch Earth observation satellites to space, how they work, and what they do there.
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Planetarium Show - We Are Guardians
- Group 1 - 10:20 / Group 2 - 10:20/ Group 3 SEND - 11:40
The world, its peoples and environments are connected and interdependent. From the smallest bacteria to the largest ocean whale; there exists a link between all things. In a world out of balance, We Are Guardians looks at how ecosystems are intrinsically connected and with the increasing use of Satellite Monitoring, examines the links between human activities and climate change.
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Workshop - Satellites
- Group 1 - 12:15
In this interactive workshop, students get the chance to learn, challenge and experiment with something we all take for granted these days, Satellites. They affect our daily lives more than we realise, from communications systems, to weather forecasts and even space exploration.
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Talk - From Spaceports to Orbit
- Group 1 - 14:30
In this explosive talk, find out how we launch Earth observation satellites to space, how they work, and what they do there.
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Planetarium Show - We Are Guardians
- Group 1 - 10:20
The world, its peoples and environments are connected and interdependent. From the smallest bacteria to the largest ocean whale; there exists a link between all things. In a world out of balance, We Are Guardians looks at how ecosystems are intrinsically connected and with the increasing use of Satellite Monitoring, examines the links between human activities and climate change.