Big bang summer school 2014
This year, our Summer School brought together volunteers from the University of Arts London, the Central School of Speech and Drama, and the Institute of Education with our young people - the Big Bang Ambassadors. They were asked to write 'free fall' style around the Universe Story. Here are some of the beautiful writings that emerged beginning with "I am amazing because….."
Something that looks like lava started to explode but mostly I am the supernova that’s colourful, beautiful, mysterious and magnificent. I am powerful and have courage because I look cool and awesome.
Maryam, 10
I was really huge, huger than I even knew. I wanted music in my stars and planets. I would like it to be slow and quiet music. Cool and collected like the first cells at the bottom of the sea and then I look up at the sky and learn about the stars.
Silas, 11
I have strength to make the universe out of one big bang from a speck so small.
I am inventive as I formed the galaxy to make the universe wide and tall.
I am patient as I wait for the supernova after creating the Milky Way.
I am creative as I still make different creatures from even today.
Azizah, 11
I have created a supernova, Earth, White, red dwarf, black hole.
I am peaceful, mysterious, magnificent.
Loving, glorious, tremendous
Caring, shimmering, intense
Endless, powerful.
Abdirahman, 11
I think the universe is amazing because there are different galaxies and planets. It’s also amazing the way it was made by a spark dot and how it evolved into a Earth.
I had to wait billions and billions years until I transformed into something magnificent. I had to be patient but I knew something incidentally will happen. Years and years I waited watching the spark grow bigger every second. I knew something going to happen so I waited and watched. Finally, I saw the heat evolve and when they joined it was time to shine. Could I really show the world who I am?
Mohammed, 11
I think the universe is amazing and mind blowing because it shows how weak, uneducated and ignorant the human species are for being self absorb. It leaves me with the question who is responsible for this beautiful creation?
As a galaxy I have to be obedient because I have no control of the role I play. I am a mystery to the human brain because of the qualities I uphold. If I wasn't as absent, the galaxy would not be the stable and beautiful we know it to be destructive, unstable and about to explode. You will continue to wonder about this existence but I wont tell a thing.
Aliya, 16
I think the universe is amazing because: if it wasn't for the universe we all wouldn't be here today. And that some of the stars are bigger then the sun. It is amazing to be a star because I may look small from down there but up here I am really big. Bigger than people can imagine.
Reem, 11
Everything around me, the sound, the colours and all the bright things. I have come from nothing and gradually I start to take shape. I form into circles, squares and rectangles.
Do I stand still, no I can’t I need to evolve I need to move because everything around me is.
Come with me on this journey of discovery, let us all come together and explore what has gone before and wait in anticipation of what is coming.
I am amazing are we not amazing.
Tricia, Trainee Primary Teacher
I am so vast and humungous, bright and shining. Containing billions of stars, galaxies and within those planets. One special one, planet Earth, has human life with lots of creations within it. Vast, generous and caring, the universe has many creations and wonders. Molecules and cells are in my detail – structure and pattern.
Teresa, Trainee Primary Teacher
We don’t know a lot about it – it is mysterious. It is bigger than we can imagine and it is GROWING! There may be millions of galaxies.
I have so many brothers and sisters so far away….but at the beginning I was just made of bits of me, floating in the air. You couldn’t see me. But then, the invisible bits of me came together and started to grow hotter then hotter and hotter, then bright! I was brighter than anything else around me.
Louise, Trainee Primary Teacher
I am amazed at the curious wonder that humanity pours and pulsates through every generation. Mankind woke from darkness with blinking eyes, they looked, trawling through and from the deep in to the stench that now pours from the belching factories, billowing noxiously and coughing out poisons there and looked deep down inside. Splitting minerals for objects, possessions, wealth, splitting atoms to massacre each other. Now man looms in the spectre of pointed fingers primed to push buttons capable of unleashing more force that the sun. Humanity sees the atoms split as young, when it is as cold or time. I know its potential to use its binding, the bringing together of the cosmos. Still, men is intent on dividing, splitting atomically and anatomically.
Kyle, Central School of Speech and Drama student
I think the universe is amazing because it is the beginning of our existence at the moment and we are yet to discover and understand its end. I feel that it is continual and perpetual always giving arise to more potential. I am ongoing, expanding and becoming deeper and darker. I am finding new light and brightness within my centre. I feel both hot and cold.
Jacqueline, Central School of Speech and Drama student
Something that looks like lava started to explode but mostly I am the supernova that’s colourful, beautiful, mysterious and magnificent. I am powerful and have courage because I look cool and awesome.
Maryam, 10
I was really huge, huger than I even knew. I wanted music in my stars and planets. I would like it to be slow and quiet music. Cool and collected like the first cells at the bottom of the sea and then I look up at the sky and learn about the stars.
Silas, 11
I have strength to make the universe out of one big bang from a speck so small.
I am inventive as I formed the galaxy to make the universe wide and tall.
I am patient as I wait for the supernova after creating the Milky Way.
I am creative as I still make different creatures from even today.
Azizah, 11
I have created a supernova, Earth, White, red dwarf, black hole.
I am peaceful, mysterious, magnificent.
Loving, glorious, tremendous
Caring, shimmering, intense
Endless, powerful.
Abdirahman, 11
I think the universe is amazing because there are different galaxies and planets. It’s also amazing the way it was made by a spark dot and how it evolved into a Earth.
I had to wait billions and billions years until I transformed into something magnificent. I had to be patient but I knew something incidentally will happen. Years and years I waited watching the spark grow bigger every second. I knew something going to happen so I waited and watched. Finally, I saw the heat evolve and when they joined it was time to shine. Could I really show the world who I am?
Mohammed, 11
I think the universe is amazing and mind blowing because it shows how weak, uneducated and ignorant the human species are for being self absorb. It leaves me with the question who is responsible for this beautiful creation?
As a galaxy I have to be obedient because I have no control of the role I play. I am a mystery to the human brain because of the qualities I uphold. If I wasn't as absent, the galaxy would not be the stable and beautiful we know it to be destructive, unstable and about to explode. You will continue to wonder about this existence but I wont tell a thing.
Aliya, 16
I think the universe is amazing because: if it wasn't for the universe we all wouldn't be here today. And that some of the stars are bigger then the sun. It is amazing to be a star because I may look small from down there but up here I am really big. Bigger than people can imagine.
Reem, 11
Everything around me, the sound, the colours and all the bright things. I have come from nothing and gradually I start to take shape. I form into circles, squares and rectangles.
Do I stand still, no I can’t I need to evolve I need to move because everything around me is.
Come with me on this journey of discovery, let us all come together and explore what has gone before and wait in anticipation of what is coming.
I am amazing are we not amazing.
Tricia, Trainee Primary Teacher
I am so vast and humungous, bright and shining. Containing billions of stars, galaxies and within those planets. One special one, planet Earth, has human life with lots of creations within it. Vast, generous and caring, the universe has many creations and wonders. Molecules and cells are in my detail – structure and pattern.
Teresa, Trainee Primary Teacher
We don’t know a lot about it – it is mysterious. It is bigger than we can imagine and it is GROWING! There may be millions of galaxies.
I have so many brothers and sisters so far away….but at the beginning I was just made of bits of me, floating in the air. You couldn’t see me. But then, the invisible bits of me came together and started to grow hotter then hotter and hotter, then bright! I was brighter than anything else around me.
Louise, Trainee Primary Teacher
I am amazed at the curious wonder that humanity pours and pulsates through every generation. Mankind woke from darkness with blinking eyes, they looked, trawling through and from the deep in to the stench that now pours from the belching factories, billowing noxiously and coughing out poisons there and looked deep down inside. Splitting minerals for objects, possessions, wealth, splitting atoms to massacre each other. Now man looms in the spectre of pointed fingers primed to push buttons capable of unleashing more force that the sun. Humanity sees the atoms split as young, when it is as cold or time. I know its potential to use its binding, the bringing together of the cosmos. Still, men is intent on dividing, splitting atomically and anatomically.
Kyle, Central School of Speech and Drama student
I think the universe is amazing because it is the beginning of our existence at the moment and we are yet to discover and understand its end. I feel that it is continual and perpetual always giving arise to more potential. I am ongoing, expanding and becoming deeper and darker. I am finding new light and brightness within my centre. I feel both hot and cold.
Jacqueline, Central School of Speech and Drama student
