BARRHEAD youngsters celebrated a mission to find life on Mars by creating their very own spacecraft in 2003.

The British space probe Beagle 2 landed on the Red Planet on Christmas Day, although it failed to send back messages.

Before the holidays, pupils from the town's primary schools went along to Barrhead High with their own versions of the rocket.

They gathered in the hall to watch as loads of Beagle 2 replicas touched down.

Science teacher May McCallum said at the time: “This probe is all-British and carries important scientific experiments, yet doesn’t seem to have had very much media interest.

“I feel it’s important for our potential scientists of the future to become involved with a project like this and they’ve responded to the challenge.”