23 SEPnet PGRs attended the 2-day planetary science school at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Middlesex. The school was led by senior researchers in the SEPnet region and comprised four sessions exploring different aspects of planetary science through a mix of lectures, seminars and tutorials.

Thank you to the following contributors:� Dr Susanne Schwenzer, Frances Butcher and Jack Wright , Open University; Dr Rob Fear and Dr Catriona Jackman, University of Southampton; Dr Simon Green and Dr Stephen Lowry,�University of Kent and Dr Setnam Shemar and Dr Tian-Hong Loh, NPL.

Joint winners of the poster competition were Paul Hallam, Queen Mary University of London:�"Investigating the Depth of Gaps formed by Planets in Protoplanetary Discs" and Daniel Staab, Open University:� "The Dispersed Matter Planet Project".� Both winners were awarded Amazon vouchers.� Chris Malliband, Open University , received a special mention for his poster:� "1:3m Mapping of a quadrangle on Mercury".

Overall feedback was very positive and one PGR said the school was a �very interesting intro to planetary science as a whole�.

Thank you to NPL for hosting this event on behalf of GRADnet.