They’ve arrived!
The mission badges have arrived. Thank you Grace for the design.
Category: Eaglesfield Paddle Academy
Drum roll…
…and the winner is Grace, well done!
Out of this World Paddle!
We’ll be announcing the winner very soon…
Thank you Paddle
Was John Dalton a trustee of Paddle School?
After reading ‘Poking around in Paddle’s Past’ written by Alan J. McLean, it became apparent that one of the trustees of Eaglesfield Paddle Academy (fka School) was a Mr J. Dalton. We have learned of John Dalton who was a fantastic scientist – known as the father of atomic theory. He grew up in Eaglesfield, and in 1778 at only twelve years of age he opened a local Quaker school in Eaglesfield. Intrigued whether the former Trustee of our primary school was the great scientist, we enquired with the headteacher of Eaglesfield Paddle Academy, Mrs Watson, to see if she could shed any light on if it was. The author of ‘Poking around in Paddle’s Past’ confirmed that the trustee was in fact a descendant of John Dalton.
Group Meet Up 2 : Mission Badge Competition- filming
On Wednesday (24th June) when we all met up as a group at Beech Hill, we filmed a video to present to the students and staff of Eaglesfield Paddle Academy. The video explains what the project is and also about the mission badges.
For the mission badges the students will design a badge which can either be on the theme of science, John Dalton, Eaglesfield Paddle Academy or even a mixture of all three.
Here are some photos from our filming:
We all spoke about separate sections of the project.
ENTRY FORM: School Mission Badge Design Competition
We’ve launched a competition so pupils from the primary school we used to attend can design our mission space badge. The entry form and competition details can be downloaded below.
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Launching a Mission Badge Design Competition
We’re launching a competition for pupils to design a space badge for our mission. See below for more info:
Why is the balloon called John Dalton?
Dalton’s atomic theory was the first complete attempt to describe all matter in terms of atoms and their properties. Dalton based his theory on the law of conservation of mass and the law of constant composition. The first part of his theory states that all matter is made of atoms, which are indivisible. Also, all atoms of an element were identical, different elements had atoms of differing size and mass.
We named our balloon ‘John Dalton’ because he was born in Eaglesfield which is a Cumbrian village close to where we live. All members of the Balloon X Cumbria project (Poppy, Jack, Joe, Natasha) went to Eaglesfield Paddle Academy [previously Primary School]. Dalton has a link to Eaglesfield Paddle as he taught at the predecessor of the school before going to Kendal where he continued his teaching.
Dalton has a link to the local church as well, because the church’s alternative name is the John Dalton Memorial Church, in recognition of the fact that this scientist was born in the village and was involved in early education here.
Therefore, to celebrate his connections, we decided to name the balloon after John Dalton.