{"id":809765,"date":"2026-10-21T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809765\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:58:10","slug":"astronaut-tim-peakes-video-leaves-plymouth-pupils-starstruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809765\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Tim Peake&#8217;s video leaves Plymouth pupils starstruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Primary school children have been left amazed after receiving a personal video message from British astronaut Tim Peake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pupils at Thornbury Primary School in Plymouth, Devon, were sent the message after teacher Emily Trevarthen&#8217;s father met Peake while working on a cruise ship over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trevarthen explained that her father and the astronaut got chatting and her father mentioned she was a teacher. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t expect to get what we got really,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1611228373741802\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told pupils, external<\/a>: &#8220;I hear you&#8217;ve been studying all about space, a subject very close to my heart, something I love, so I&#8217;m very pleased that you enjoy it too. Stay curious. Keep looking up at the stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trevarthen said that some children had previously assumed all astronauts were American, but learning about a British astronaut had helped them see that such ambitions were possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Primary school children have been left amazed after receiving a personal video message from British astronaut Tim Peake.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-809765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}