An opportunity for your pupils to speak to our British astronaut in space!

Tim will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) this December and will spend six months working and living on the ISS. 

Mrs Kerry Sabin-Dawson at Wellesley House has been working closely with Monkton Stargazers and Hilderstone Radio Club on this unique project and is delighted to invite other schools in our area to join us and take part in this exceptional opportunity.

The Headmaster, Mr Simon O'Malley, would therefore like to invite you to attend a meeting at Wellesley House to explain this event in more detail on Wednesday 11th November at 4pm.

Thanks to collaboration between Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS), the UK Space Agency, the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and the European Space Agency (ESA), those schools selected will be able to contact Tim Peake whilst he is on board the ISS via a scheduled amateur radio link-up. In a ten-minute window when the ISS will be over the UK, on a date to be confirmed, an amateur radio contact will be established with Tim, and our pupils will be able to ask him questions directly about his life and work on board the ISS.

The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) will be at this two-day event in 2016 at Wellesley House to teach pupils about amateur radio and support links with local amateur radio clubs.

If a representative from your school would be interested in attending the initial meeting on 11th November and learning more about being a part of the ISS contact at Wellesley House then please email Mrs Kerry Sabin-Dawson at office@wellesleyhouse.net.