OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD work by students in lockdown has won their Ellesmere Port school a top award. Year 7 and 8 students at Ellesmere Port Catholic High School worked hard on the Life on Mars project, which saw pupils get astronomically creative, including the creation of a stop-motion animation, a virtual reality world and well-researched concepts of how humans could get to, and live on, the Red Planet. Ellesmere Port Catholic High students award-winning Life on Mars project. Part of a stop-motion animation depicting the launch from Earth and landing and exploring Mars. The extensive work, done as a joint venture between the school and careers education charity 4wardfutures, was even more impressive as it was carried out during the 15th week of the first coronavirus lockdown, long after most students had stopped attending lessons in person.