Primary school children have been left amazed after receiving a personal video message from British astronaut Tim Peake.
Pupils at Thornbury Primary School in Plymouth, Devon, were sent the message after teacher Emily Trevarthen’s father met Peake while working on a cruise ship over the summer.
Trevarthen explained that her father and the astronaut got chatting and her father mentioned she was a teacher. “We didn’t expect to get what we got really,” she said.
Peake told pupils, external: “I hear you’ve been studying all about space, a subject very close to my heart, something I love, so I’m very pleased that you enjoy it too. Stay curious. Keep looking up at the stars.”
Trevarthen said that some children had previously assumed all astronauts were American, but learning about a British astronaut had helped them see that such ambitions were possible.
