Tylers Green Middle School are celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year by holding a Science Week to study the technological advances made over the last half a century. Wycombe Astronomical Society were invited to participate and we provided our contribution with a short lecture from Sandy Giles to the whole school on the Apollo 11 Lunar landing in 1969. Sandy also went round to the individual year groups fielding questions about astronomy from the children. “I was rather nervous about the questions, but fortunately the teachers had vetted them first. There was a refreshing simplicity to some of them which nevertheless required careful answers – for example why does the Moon sometimes change colour.” The school are entering their budgeting phase for next year and the purchase of a telescope is now actively being pursued.
Sandy Giles