A SPACE rocket was one of the main exhibits at a school’s science festival.

Each year Colchester Royal Grammar School hosts the event which includes a range of workshops and activities run both by school students and external providers.

Activities on offer included interactive forensics and a dissection lab, Cosmic Chemistry, Jet Propulsion Lab, planetariums, creepy crawly roadshow, computing workshop, chemistry and physics practical labs, and this year a real rocket was on display.

Sci Fest is open to the community with visitors welcome.

Ayala Daisley, who organises the event each year, said it was popular.

She said: “We aren’t sure how many people turned up. Last year we had about 2,000 and this year was even more popular so it could have been around 3,000.

“It was really successful and well attended. There was a huge range of ages which was fantastic.

“The whole aim of Sci Fest is to inspire the next generation of scientists.

“We want to prove it’s not just old men in white coats.”

To coincide with Sci Fest, the school was running a poster competition open to all ages.

Posters had to highlight the issue of plastic pollution on the environment or discourage the use of plastics.