I signed onto a General Studies zoom session with a group of year 6 girls ready to have a discussion about the recent Space X launch, something I really wasn’t interested in but I had done my research and was ready to go. The girls logged on and there was the usual state of half interest from most of them. There was one girl, however, who gave a bright and sunny greeting saying, “I’m so excited about this Mr Greenlees!”. This gave me the most incredible boost, I was instantly feeling great, I re-read some of my key points and found them to be much more interesting than I had remembered, things were looking up. When everyone had joined, I started off with said enthusiastic girl, “what has made you so excited then?” I asked. I had opened the flood gates; she spoke animatedly and eloquently about Space X and space travel. She gave her opinions on the benefits and the downsides. She offered insight into the past and the future and what the next objectives were. She spoke about films that had accurately portrayed take offs and landings and ones that had got it very wrong. It was remarkable, she was so passionate about space that she essentially took over, the other girls started to take notice and were asking her questions, I was even asking her question. She was in full flow and nothing was going to stop her. It transpired that her Grandfather had worked for NASA and her family had been to visit the Kennedy Space Station in the Summer 2019. There she had been infected by the vivacious tour guides and by her grandfather’s wild stories and had been obsessed ever since. Luckily for me she had singlehandedly saved my general studies lesson and given the other girls a highly enjoyable hour on an otherwise bleak day. I later spoke to the maths teacher, who had year 6 after me, and he thanked me for getting the girls so excited (I of course gave him the full story and he later thanked the child as well) and said that he had had his most productive lesson in a long time.