Pembrokeshire College hosted a variety of activities as part of the BBC Stargazing LIVE season.  120 primary school pupils linked to the Buzz club took part in a rocket building workshop as well as a session in the Planetarium where they learned all about our solar system.

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On Tuesday 17th January 2012 there will be a FREE stargazing event held at Pembrokeshire College. The Darwin Centre are working in association with Dark Sky Wales and the BBC to bring you a variety of activities….

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YES!! Goldfish can see colour better than humans!  Many thanks to all of those that attended the fantastic lectures by Professor Ron Douglas from City University London. A big thank you to Colour Group GB for sponsoring Ron to come down and deliver the lectures.

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On Saturday 3rd Decemeber we spent the day at Heatherton world of activities with a group of young carers aged 12-17.  The morning was spent completing the high ropes adventure course, the afternoon was spent on the various activities that Heatherton offers such as archery and lazer clay shooting.

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Many thanks to all of those that attended the Pembrokeshire’s Coastal Landscapes Lecture by Sid Howells.  It was a great evening.  And a big thanks to Sid for delivering the lecture.

Students from Van Hall Larenstein the University of Applied Sciences in Holland braved the weather and headed out on the Milford Haven water way with us, Dailing Sailing and geologist Sid Howells.

The students explored the geological features of the Haven as well as the industrial ones.
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18 pupils from Monkton school came with us to Lydstep Haven for a rockpooling session.   Keep Wales Tidy also came along and helped us out.   Rockpooling was followed up with a plankton and microscope workshop.  The pupils learned about life cycles and food chains.  They examined plankton samples under the microscope and made drawings of the different types they had seen.

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Year’s 5 and 6 from Haverfordwest VC took part in a mini beast hunt and microscope workshop on Friday.  We managed to get a video of a beetle eating a woodlouse, check it out below.

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