--- title: "A Night at the Museum" url: "https://www.garstangcommunityacademy.com/news/2015-09-30-a-night-at-the-museum" school: "Garstang Community Academy" --- # A Night at the Museum 30 September 2015 **Fancy that…..? A night in a Birmingham museum?** Want to sleep with skeletons? Bed down under a spitfire? Or wake up beside a steam engine? Only lucky Year 8 students from Garstang Community Academy can do that!! 79 students were whisked off by GCA staff to Birmingham Think Tank Museum on Friday 25th September to enjoy a night of fun filled activities. The activities were based around group sizes but a make-and-take workshop, a planetarium show and a museum tour were guaranteed. GCA students had the chance to participate in four activities and visit the hands-on ‘Science Garden’. First stop? *Activity 1*, a visit to the planetarium where they learnt about the search for life and water on Mars. Onto *Activity 2* and students were given the opportunity to test their computer animation skills creating a short video from still images. *Activity 3*, students have free range of all the museum exhibits for 45 minutes, here they learnt about a range of subjects including engineering, medicine and chemical reactions! After Activity 3 the students had to squeeze in a few hours sleep………… Up bright and early ready for the last activity of the trip – a visit to the ‘Science Garden’ where they attempted to defy gravity and run in a giant hamster wheel. What an experience that was! [ Tough Mudder](https://www.garstangcommunityacademy.com/news/2015-09-23-tough-mudder) [Annual GCA Sports Awards ](https://www.garstangcommunityacademy.com/news/2015-10-02-annual-gca-sports-awards) ### Garstang Community Academy Garstang Road Bowgreave Garstang PR3 1YE 01995 603226 ### Useful Links - [Student Email (Gmail)](https://www.gmail.com) - [Google Classroom](https://classroom.google.com/) - [Facilities Hire](https://northwestschoolhire.co.uk/) - [Privacy Statement](https://www.garstangcommunityacademy.com/old-website-pages/privacy-statements) ### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582638844533&locale=en_GB) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/garstangcommunityacademy2024/?hl=en) ### Translation © Copyright 2016–2026 Garstang Community Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://www.garstangcommunityacademy.com/img/logo/dark.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)