There's nothing like the launch of the first official British spaceman to concentrate minds in a Year 11 physics class.
However, you will forgive the students of
Long Eaton School for being more sanguine than most teenagers on watching Major Tim Peake blasting at 17,500mph from Kazakhstan towards the International Space Station.
Science is one of the school's strong suits.
And, probably uniquely for a state school, and most unusually for any school, it has a state-of-the-art observatory...
