WALKING on Mars, stargazing, designing landing gear and flying through the solar system in a planetarium were just a few of the mind-blowing activities on offer at Astro Eve.

Dulverton Junior School led this first ever Astro evening as part of the Exmoor Primary Science Partnership. The Astro evening included seven of the primary partners who selected 60 children from years 4, 5 and 6 through ballots to attend this popular first event, which included pupils from Exford First School, Dulverton Junior School, Cutcombe First School, Milverton Primary School, Wiveliscombe Primary School, East Anstey and Bishops Nympton Primary Schools.

Sally Fulford, head teacher at Dulverton School said: "We were thrilled to have events including Space Detectives run by ESERO-UK space ambassador Joanne Richardson and Simon Ould's Space Odyssey mobile planetarium at the school to provide an exceptional evening of hands-on workshops."

“We even attempted to create a scaled version of the solar system to show just how vast it is, let alone our galaxy and the universe. Finishing off with a bedtime story read by Tim Peake during his Principa mission to the International Space Station over cocoa rounded off a perfect evening.”