Tim Peake: The Principia Mission
On Tuesday, 15 December 2015, ESA Astronaut Tim Peake launched into space.
Read more →On Tuesday, 15 December 2015, ESA Astronaut Tim Peake launched into space.
Read more →To celebrate the launch of the Deep Space Diary, Curved House Kids and the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) are giving away 15,000 free books to UK schools.
Read more →How do astronauts celebrate Christmas on the ISS?
Read more →Meet our June Star Apprentice, Annabelle (8). Annabelle has a passion for science and was awarded a place at Portsmouth Space Conference to meet Tim Peake.
Read more →October 4-10 is World Space Week and this year’s theme is ‘Space unites the world’!
Read more →Lucy is the author of the Principia Mission Space Diary and the Mars Diary.
Read more →Every child in your class is unique, so we’ve prepared ideas for differentiation for each Discovery Diary activity.
Read more →Mission Badges are great way to incentivise students as they complete different chapters in our programmes.
Read more →What exactly is a Zap code and how do you use it?
Read more →Developed by primary teacher Claire Loizos, these student reflection sheets encourage students to recap on what they have learnt during a whole chapter of one of our programmes or after a specific activity.
Read more →Since launching the first edition of the Space Diary in 2015, we have received so many wonderful comments from teachers across the UK.
Read more →The second edition of the Principia Space Diary is better than ever, thanks to the feedback and suggestions we have received from teachers over the course of the programme.
Read more →For those interested in pedagogical methodologies, here’s a whistlestop tour of ours.
Read more →Principia Space Diary is back, giving thousands of schoolchildren the chance to become space experts as they learn about British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake’s historic space mission.
Read more →Principia Space Diary is back, giving thousands of schoolchildren the chance to become space experts as they learn about British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake’s historic space mission.
Read more →Imaging meeting Tim Peake! Students from Wellesley did just that at the Principia schools conference.
Read more →The Oxford Road Community School’s ORSAnauts watch the live stream of the Principia launch.
Read more →Tim Peake is heading off on his post-flight tour of the UK this month, visiting all four UK national capitals along with Leicester, Manchester, Salford and Glasgow.
Read more →Saturday 18th June is the big day when Tim Peake returns to Earth after six months on the International Space Station. Tim will return in a Soyuz capsule, along with crewmates Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra. He’s due to land in Kazakhstan at 10.15am BST.
Read more →Richard Crowther is the chief engineer at the UK Space Agency. We spend five minutes chatting with him about his career in the space industry.
Read more →Astronomer Sheila Kanani is the Education, Outreach and Diversity Officer at the Royal Astronomical Society.
Read more →British Science Week 2016 has arrived! To help you celebrate, we’ve put together a list of our favourite space-related experiments for your Space Apprentices. We can’t wait to see how you celebrate Science Week. Don’t forget to use #SpaceDiary on Facebook and Twitter!
Read more →We’re so inspired by all the great work students have completed during their mission to the ISS! Here’s what some schools have been up to.
Read more →This blog has been written by Tim Bromwich’s Year 3 Class at Cooper and Jordan School, Aldridge
Read more →I’m sure you can recall a time when someone asked, ‘Do you remember where you were when…’ usually followed by a major historic event. Imagine future dinner table conversations, when our young people are asked if they remember where they were when the first British astronaut went to the International Space Station under the Union flag, and they reply, ‘Remember it? I was part of it!’
Read more →15,000 schoolchildren invited to write and draw their way into space with British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake.
Read more →We’re going into space! Well, sort of…
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