sypalmer-logo-200sypalmer-logo-200sypalmer-logo-200sypalmer-logo-200
  • Home
  • My Books
    • About my Books
    • May’s Moon Trilogy
    • The Secret Shell
    • Jed’s Jailbreak
  • My Blog
  • About me
  • School Workshops
    • Workshop Overview
    • From the Moon to Mars
    • Could you be an Astronaut?
    • Launch your story
    • Teacher’s Resources
  • Fun Stuff
Contact me
Show my Blog

Space, Schools and Surrey

Space, Schools and Surrey — S Y Palmer

Fun Workshop at the Wonderful Haslemere Bookshop

The past couple of months have been filled with fun events including a space afternoon at the amazing and award-winning Haslemere Bookshop in Surrey and workshops at The Abbey Junior School and Pangbourne College.

I am always amazed by children’s constant enthusiasm and their thirst to get involved!

If you or your school are interested in booking a workshop, please see my page ‘Working with Schools’ for details.

To give you a flavour of what you can expect, here are some comments from The Abbey Junior School :

15/04/2016

The UII girls were fortunate to spend the day with local author Sue Palmer who published her debut children’s book ‘May’s Moon’ 4 days before Tim Peake’s launch as the first British astronaut to go to the International Space Station. The girls had enjoyed reading the first chapter of the book during the Easter holidays which details Michael May’s first test in a neutral buoyancy pool with ten other children who have been accepted onto the ‘Children’s Moon Program’ in Florida to win a place on the next mission to the moon. Sue showed the girls her Moon globe and ‘Jim’ her model astronaut (which took 8 hours to build) in his ‘Extravehicular Mobility Unit’ (EMU) or space suit. The girls learnt about the order in which an astronaut gets dressed into their EMU including the essential ‘nappy’ for when they are outside of the Space Station.

Sue talked about the breakthroughs in Science that have been achieved by the astronauts experiments including growing rocket seeds from the International Space Station – the girls will be planting our own ‘space seeds’ soon. The girls very excitedly took a test of their own whereby they had to work in teams to put together a jigsaw using thick gloves. Several girls purchased books and had them personally signed by Sue.

Sue’s talk was incredibly informative and inspiring and hopefully will encourage the girls to continue to read ‘May’s Moon’ and to go on to study Science or Engineering… maybe one day we will see an UII Abbey girl as next British astronaut to go into space!

Share

Related Articles

2024 Mission to the Moon and Greek Mythology – Primary Classroom Conversations (Post 1) — S Y Palmer
1 February 2022

2024 Mission to the Moon and Greek Mythology – Primary Classroom Conversations (Post 1)


Read more
A World of Writing Opportunities — S Y Palmer
21 June 2021

A World of Writing Opportunities


Read more
Classroom Space Quiz for KS2 — S Y Palmer
25 March 2021

Classroom Space Quiz for KS2


Read more

Comments are closed.

Latest Articles

  • Rock Pool Secrets 3 - Survival Strategies — S Y Palmer
    Rock Pool Secrets 3 – Survival Strategies
    4 March 2025
  • Flat Periwinkle feeding
    Rock Pool Secrets 2 – Wonders of the Flat Periwinkle
    1 February 2025
  • Shore Crab with eggs
    Rock Pool Secrets 1 – Four Fantastic Finds
    16 January 2025
  • 2024 Mission to the Moon and Greek Mythology – Primary Classroom Conversations (Post 1) — S Y Palmer
    2024 Mission to the Moon and Greek Mythology – Primary Classroom Conversations (Post 1)
    1 February 2022
  • More Adventure in Children's Books — S Y Palmer
    More Adventure in Children’s Books
    1 February 2022

Article Archives

Search our Articles

✕
Toppsta Profile

Book Reviews - Happy Reading

Uma and the Answer to Absolutely Everything
Wolf Brother
Hetty Feather
The Spy who Loved School Dinners
no title has been provided for this book
The Dreamsnatcher

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL MY BOOK REVIEWS

Buy my adventure books at your local independent Book Shop or online

Waterstones Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com Toppsta
Click here for all the bookshops selling my books

May's Moon (ISBN: 9781782797807)
May's Moon - Fortis Mission (ISBN: 9781789040913)

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

View / Buy Online here

  • Hive UK
  • Foyles
  • Waterstones
  • The Space Store
  • WHSmiths
  • Barnes & Noble US
  • Indie Bound US
  • Amazon UK
  • Amazon US
  • Toppsta
 

Local Book Shops

  • The Bell Bookshop, Henley
  • The Wallingford Bookshop, Wallingford
  • The Book House, Thame

Contact Sue Palmer

School Workshops - Documents

Sample Workshop Agreement Form
Sample School Pre-Order Form

Workshop: Launch your Story

Launch Your Story - KS2 Workshop Outline
Launch your Story - Workshop Worksheets

Workshop: From the Moon to Mars

From the Moon to Mars - KS2 Workshop Outline

Workshop: Could you be an Astronaut?

Could you be an Astronaut? - KS2 Workshop Outline

Legal and Disclaimer

GDPR Privacy Policy
Terms of Use, Disclaimer & Copyright
© 2015-2022 S Y Palmer. All Rights Reserved. | South Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
Office Access
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Instagram
  • Share on Pinterest
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • Share on Email