This weekend saw 700 FREE tickets being snatched up for shows in the Planetarium courtesy of Dark Sky Wales.  The two day event was held at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven with the help of Dragon LNG and Pembrokeshire College.  

21 pupils from St Aiden’s School in Wiston spent the morning kick sampling in the river next to St David’s Cathedral.  

We took the pupils from Little Elms to explore Dale.  First of all we did some seine netting in the estuary then we headed to the beach for some rock pooling!  

On 15th January 2012 William McNamara  was at the South Pole and he was kind enough to collect some ice for us!  As St Florence school have been learning all about our frozen planet we took our melted ice to show them and to find out what they had learned about the polar regions.  

Silent World aquarium brought their travelling collection of reptiles, amphibians, marine creatures and mini beasts to the Merlin Theatre in Pembrokeshire college.  The event took place over two days with four schools attending.  The pupils participated in three different work shops each before finishing the session off with some snake handling. Mary Immaculate  

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.

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….

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.  

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.