On the first night of the Easter holidays, a select group of lower schoolroom day students became temporary boarders for a night in Fox, so that they could make the most of the observatory.The evening started with a very fine fish and chip supper, eaten with clandestine glee in the staffroom.
After this, we moved to a teaching lab, where the group asked some excellent questions and learned a fair bit about practical stargazing. By 9pm, the sky was clear enough to move up to the observatory, where we warmed up on lunar craters and Mars. Just before bedtime, Saturn sailed up into a clear part of the eastern sky and we were able to zoom in on that never-to-be-forgotten first sight of the rings.
After that, everyone retired to the Fox house kitchen for cocoa, teeth cleaning and a long night of telling each other scary stories by torchlight...
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