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Pupils from a Worthing school and their families reached for the stars during an evening of space-related activities.

Amateur astrophotographer Paul Ibbitson showed the Hawthorns Primary School children his amazing photographs and answered questions about planets, stars and galaxies in a talk described by one 10-year-old as ‘just awesome’.

There was an opportunity to hold a shooting star, a tiny piece from a 70-tonne meteorite which fell in 1947, creating a crater as big as the school playing field when it landed in Russia.

The families also made glow-in-the-dark constellations, designed and launched blow dart rockets, created chalk art solar eclipse pictures and decorate biscuits as planets, using swirls of coloured icing sugar.

Worthing children reach for the stars