Set up

Arriving in the staff room it was clear we were going to go places we had never been before ... the teachers were buzzing. All of the lessons in the entire school, for the next three days were to focus on space and the universe. The teachers had been doing lots of their own research and were lit up by it all. I saw pictures of black hole and planet cakes, heard about weaving free fall writing into long ropes and discovered new resource websites and videos. The three baskets of knowledge story had been re- written by each of the teachers, to suit the age range of their classes and life in the middle of a small country town. Year six even had a set of cartoons to go with it (see story section)