Voices is the Dorset Echo's weekly youth page - written for young people by young people.

This week three pupils from St George's Primary talk about a recent inspirational trip.

Earlier this month, Year 5 students from St George's Primary School in Portland had the privilege of going to All Saints School in Weymouth to meet students from Bournemouth University.

The people from the university gave us information about university life and inspired us to go to university when we are older. They told us all about the fun things you get to do when you go to university including sleepovers, movies, trips and other fantastic things.

We realised, even though university looks really boring it is actually amazingly fun.

We interviewed the students and asked them lots of different questions about Bournemouth University and we learned there are more than 50,000 courses in the UK that people can take.

Now we believe anyone can go to university. You don’t have to be top of the class or have a lot of money - anyone can go if they want to.

All the students we met were so glad they had the opportunity to go to uni. They believed that if they did not go to uni they would have been a completely different person.

At university Erin would like to study primary education which she hopes could lead to being a teacher - preferably St Georges Primary School.

Megan would like to study ecology and wildlife conservation to become a zoo keeper whereas Neve would like to study art to fulfill her dreams of being an artist.

We hope all of you reading have the opportunity to go to university as it is such an amazing place and we hope you get the job you have always wanted.

By Erin Steadman, Megan Butler and Neve Samways, Year 5, St George's Primary School