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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This document is vital reading for all SQA Physics exam courses. It covers how marks are awarded and how you can fail to receive marks, even if you might have the correct answer. It would really would benefit you if you worked through this document with others on your course and folk at home. https://mrsphysics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/general-marking-principles-physics.pdf...
Read MoreAddendum 28th June 2017 Now sitting at Schiphol Airport gate D71. It’s been a long slog. At 8pm last night, or thereabouts, I left the Celebration of Achievement after watching the 2016 Space Cadets give their presentation (well done to them). I’d not been home. Waiting at the bus stop was Mr Physics for a...
Read MoreThere is a debate on Sputnik, the Scottish Physics teachers’ Forum, about displaying good quotes around the Physics Department. Since starting this website I have looked at several quotes and I think some of the quotes of Carl Sagan are fantastic. My favourite to inspire all students is “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be...
Read MoreThere has been a debate on Sputnik about how to produce a decent piece of graph paper for an exam so I have created one in excel. If the boxes aren’t as you wish, then just adjust the scale. I hope it is useful. Do let me know graph paper for exams
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I received a letter in the post from a former pupil, now a happily married Dr with two lovely children. She offered me this poem- failing to tell me it actually wasn’t about me. I had quite a wobble when I read it and genuinely hope my students don’t come and sit through my lessons like...
Read MoreIoP Teachers of Physics award The Teachers of Physics awards celebrate the success of secondary school physics teachers who have raised the profile of physics and science in schools. The IoP acknowledge that teachers contribute an immense amount to society and wish to accord them the recognition they deserve. The IoP Teacher of Physics awards,...
Read MoreIn the certain knowledge that I am the only one reading my blog, and I’m not surprised. I feel I can quite simply put these links up. What an honour to be recognised as a good Physics teacher. If any of you knew how poorly qualified I have felt over the years, and continue to...
Read MoreWhat fun! I am so pleased to be able to run a skills course. I am teaching Physics through the medium of Modern Foreign Languages and communication. We have just watched some of Apollo 13. While the lunar module had enough spare oxygen to accommodate Swigert as well as the intended lunar module crew of...
Read MorePolicing Maths, check it out. http://blogs.scotland.gov.uk/making-maths-count/2016/08/12/policing-maths//
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Mrs Physics is taking to the stage! (Yes, I know the joke…. “You should be on the stage: there’s one that leaves in five minutes”). It appears I am going on the stage appearing with two far more distinguished people than I. I think I am there to make the numbers up. The info about the...
Read MoreThere was an interesting debate on the Physics forum a few months back about why Scottish school physics went down the electron flow route whereas everywhere else stuck with conventional current. Well one man, “our man in Aberdeen (as well as all over the place)” has done a great deal or research to get to the...
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