MORE than 150 primary school pupils searched for the stars at Barnard Castle School today (November 3).

That’s after physics teacher, Steve Wrathmall, gave the Year 5 and 6 pupils from Staindrop, St Mary’s, Stratford and Hepworth Primary School’s a master class workshop in Astronomy.

Dr Wrathmall held the interactive workshop, which is the third one the school has held, in an attempt to inspire the children about physics.

And it wasn’t just comets and the stars up for discussion as he also showed them some Christmas Dinner table tricks such as how to levitate tinsel and create a flying teabag.

Both the pupils and staff were so impressed that they have already enquired about further workshops.

Dr Wrathmall said: “Physics is a special subject. It affects our lives in so many ways every day.

“But it also allows us to explore the universe within the classroom, to ask many fundamental questions about the world around us, and tries to answers some of the most important, often basic, questions we can ask.

“It is an evolving, continuously changing subject which makes it ever more exciting.”