Y7 Space Diary Continuation

The idea with this start up lesson is that pupils will pick up on the diary process that should have begun in primary school. The journey through space has been ongoing for seven long weeks.
ENTRY FOR SEPTEMBER 1st 2006 (Example to stimulate pupils' own entries about arrival)

These last six weeks have simply flown by! Planet Earth seems a long way back. When I look out through the little porthole windows on the side of our spacecraft, I can’t even see our solar system any more. It is almost one million space miles behind us.

When I sleep I dream of home. I dream about walks in Greno Woods, sunshine beaming through the leaf canopy. I dream of our cat, Norman and how he used to curl up on my bed on Sunday mornings.

I don’t think I will ever get used to being weightless. Peas fly off your plate and you can munch them in mid air. Sometimes your hair just sticks up all the time. It’s weird.

The Space Travel Control people in Leicester tell us that we are very close to our destination planet. I follow our progress on the little computer monitor. Our craft is a blob of blue light flashing, closing in on a blob of orange light. The closer we get, the more excited I become.