It was dry day,but it was blustery,perfect for launching rockets!In accordance with science week,a man named Robert from the Armagh Planetarium came to teach us all about space and rockets.At the end he asked us questions about what we learned.After that we went to build our own rockets!We split up into pairs of two's and we began to construct our rockets.Of course they were only models, but all the same we loved it!Robert explained how to build the rockets, step by step and promised that we could launch them afterwards.We examined each and every one of the rockets and saw all of the different designs.As soon as we had looked at our rockets,we charged outside to launch them.He had brought a machine with him:it had a foot pump and two buttons.First he put the rocket in a little socket and then he pumped air into it.The pair who had made the rocket held the remote.We had a countdown,on the count of five one button was pressed and at zero the other button was pressed.Blast off!We admired the rockets blasting off into the sky,some of them even got stuck on the schools roof!We really enjoyed the day,we learned some really interesting facts about space and we even got to build our own rockets,It was a fantastic day and I will never forget it!
By Carol Santos,Áine O'Donnell and Joseph Mahon
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