Resources for writing prelim papers. Don’t forget to read the course reports for the level that you’re writing prelims. Remember that your marking instructions need to follow the General Marking Principle (GMP). Please check that the details in these documents is up-to-date, remember the courses changed in 2018. These documents will still serve as an...
Read MoreBoy 15th December 2021 will go down as one of mixed emotions. The idea that we’ve still got 6 more teaching days until we break up and we’re crawling to the finish. I know many of you aren’t teachers and think, well I don’t break up until Christmas Eve, there you teachers go again moaning...
Read MoreThis is the end of a long process to make an Escape Room for Revision in my Classes. It is my first one so you can tell that it will be full of flaws, but I think there is something here that you can adapt and make it your own with very little need to adjust much. I'll try to put the editable files in another post. In this post you can play along and try to solve the case. Do let me know how you get on.
Read MoreIt is a real privilege to be attending the biennial Science on Stage Event in Cascais, Portugal. There are 450 Science Teachers from around Europe, and further afield all with amazing ideas, projects and ways of teaching their students. https://www.science-on-stage.eu/ After the set up of all the stands…….
Read More21st September marks Catherine Wilson’s birthday but also an end to the IoP network coordinators as we’ve known it. To celebrate the people who instigated and ran the network and started the fantastic Physics forum met together for a find farewell and catch up. I was honoured to be invited but felt like a gate...
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Thanks to Lewis and Sandy, who spotted a beautiful, intense, double rainbow from my window during a non-contact period today. Luckily I had a polarising filter to hand and Lewis managed to capture some photos showing rainbows are partially plain polarised. Check out the photos below. What a way to spend a non-contact. Thank you!...
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I’ve been teaching for a very long time, so long that I could have taught most of the staff. It seems odd then that I heard a good quote for teaching on Friday and heard it three times in 24 hours…….and the quote Children remember not what you teach them but the way you make...
Read MoreI’ve been teaching for a long time now, longer than the probationer has been alive, but every year teachers get more and more tired and it isn’t because I’m too old. We’ve been back six days and already there has been tears from people with too much on their plate and too many students who...
Read MoreAs usual it is raining in my home town, so, as I wandered off home I got out the umbrella I was given at the Science on Stage Conference 2017 in Debrecan, Hungary. It was left over from the Science on Stage London 2015 event, where the weather was typically wonderful. I can’t say that...
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I’ve got a slot again for the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday 21st August 2017 (loads of tickets still available). I am on a panel with Author Gill Arbuthnott and Illustrator Neill Cameron. As part of our research preparation Gill and I met up in Blackwell’s Bookshop in Edinburgh. After a couple of coffees in...
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