Big Steam Day: Pupil Voice
Schools and arts award
Here is what the young people said about the Big Steam Day on 23 March 2017:
The astrodome:
- It was satisfying watching all the stars and about them, also the planets in the astrodome
- I enjoyed drawing the stars with my classI enjoyed going into the astrodome.
- I enjoyed going into the astrodome. I learnt about the different planets in the universe
- I enjoyed the astrodome today
- I liked looking at the universe in the astrodome
- We love the astrodome because we learnt about the stars
- Very great to experience the astrodome
- I liked the dome as it made me feel relaxed
- The astrodome was good but scary
Activities:
- We designed a planet of our own
- We love the dancing with Chloe
- We love the drawing
- I liked making a creature of our own
- I want to take back to my school the “drawing our family as planets” part. I would love to take that back.
- I really enjoyed it because it was fun
- I liked the drawing because you get to draw whatever you want
- The dancing was crazy
- Enjoyed:
- Astrodome – liked looking at planets and stars
- drawing with Greg
- drawing solar system
- drawing our own planets
- inventing the person
- creating planets with chalks and wax
- doing different activities
- drawing the galaxy
- explaining how we would move around on a planet
- drawing on the long page and drawing our families as planets
- drawing the universe from our own imagination. We’d like to take the big sheet of paper home.
- making our own space and thinking of what creatures can live there
- drawing with chalk
- making our own planets
- making our own aliens
- drawing as a team
- Liked:
- Astrodome
- dressing up
- Art (universe)
- Art (planets)
- Art (person/alien)
- Did not like:
- drawing people and answering question
- Top 3 things:
- dome – nice view and got to lie down; dress up – because you got to design an alien; dance – it was funny and you learn the order of the planets
- Dome, dressing up, colouring; why – in the dome you can see everything, dressing up – we all got a go, colouring – we got to colour…and we learnt more things about space
Learning:
- I learnt that Mercury is the smallest planet and also the planet closest to the sun
- I learnt that Jupiter is the biggest planet
- I learnt that the biggest planet is Jupiter
- We learnt that Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system at the moment
- I enjoyed the planetarium because I learned the planet Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system; the best thing was that I personally thought that the ring on Jupiter was made of asteroids not water and gas
- Today I learnt about space and the solar system. I really enjoyed going in the big black bubble. We didn’t enjoy the star thing. I wish we could have done the dance.
- I liked the astrodome because it was fun
- I enjoyed the whole day as I learnt lot
- Today I learnt and enjoyed learning about planets and drawing the planets
- Today I learned about different types of planets
- Today I will definitely take back what I learnt about the solar system and planets
- I’ve learnt about planets that I didn’t know about and how to draw in different ways
- I have learnt about space and the world around it
- I enjoyed learning about space
- We learnt that Pluto is the smallest planet in the universe because it didn’t show on the map
- We have learnt what order the planets go in
- We learnt lots of new stuff and we got to do fun activities
- I learned that the earth is 70% water
- Learnt that Uranus was cold
- Didn’t know before that Pluto is a dwarf planet
- Learnt
- How to move like the planets
- thought there was only one black hole before today
- how to draw the universe/stars
Other:
- I would add a bit more things to do
- I would change how long we had for lunch
- We were doing some funny stuff and some boring stuff
- We were having a lot of fun
- Want to know more about the stars
