{"id":596,"date":"2022-01-11T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.vecurosoft.com\/kundax\/?page_id=596"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:01:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"596\" class=\"elementor elementor-596\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-792faf9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"792faf9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61db61c elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"61db61c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\n  .mrs-about-wrapper {\r\n    background: #f5f7fb;\r\n    padding: 20px;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about {\r\n    max-width: 1600px;\r\n    margin: 0 auto;\r\n    background: #ffffff;\r\n    border-radius: 12px;\r\n    box-shadow: 0 10px 25px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);\r\n    overflow: hidden;\r\n    border: 1px solid #e2e6f0;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-header {\r\n    padding: 20px 24px 16px;\r\n    text-align: center;\r\n    border-bottom: 1px solid #eef0f7;\r\n    background: #fafafa;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-header h1 {\r\n    margin: 0;\r\n    font-size: 32px;\r\n    letter-spacing: 0.03em;\r\n    color: #000000;\r\n    text-transform: uppercase;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-header::after {\r\n    content: \"\";\r\n    display: block;\r\n    width: 80px;\r\n    height: 3px;\r\n    margin: 12px auto 0;\r\n    border-radius: 999px;\r\n    background: #000000;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body {\r\n    padding: 24px 24px 30px;\r\n    font-size: 16px;\r\n    line-height: 1.7;\r\n    color: #000000;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  \/* Force everything inside to be black, even if inline styles say grey *\/\r\n  .mrs-about-body,\r\n  .mrs-about-body p,\r\n  .mrs-about-body span,\r\n  .mrs-about-body li,\r\n  .mrs-about-body figcaption,\r\n  .mrs-about-body a {\r\n    color: #000000 !important;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body p {\r\n    margin-bottom: 1em;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body figure {\r\n    margin: 1.2em auto;\r\n    text-align: center;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body figcaption {\r\n    font-size: 14px;\r\n    opacity: 0.85;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body img {\r\n    max-width: 100%;\r\n    height: auto;\r\n    border-radius: 6px;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  \/* Floats for desktop *\/\r\n  .mrs-about-body .alignleft {\r\n    float: left;\r\n    margin: 0 1.2em 1.2em 0;\r\n    max-width: 40%;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body .alignright {\r\n    float: right;\r\n    margin: 0 0 1.2em 1.2em;\r\n    max-width: 40%;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body::after {\r\n    content: \"\";\r\n    display: block;\r\n    clear: both;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body ul {\r\n    padding-left: 1.2em;\r\n    margin: 0.8em 0 1.2em;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  .mrs-about-body li {\r\n    margin-bottom: 0.3em;\r\n  }\r\n\r\n  @media (max-width: 768px) {\r\n    .mrs-about-body {\r\n      padding: 18px 16px 22px;\r\n      font-size: 15px;\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    .mrs-about-body .alignleft,\r\n    .mrs-about-body .alignright {\r\n      float: none;\r\n      margin: 0 auto 1em;\r\n      display: block;\r\n      text-align: center;\r\n      max-width: 100%;\r\n    }\r\n  }\r\n<\/style>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"mrs-about-wrapper\">\r\n  <div class=\"mrs-about\">\r\n\r\n    <header class=\"mrs-about-header\">\r\n      <h1>About Me<\/h1>\r\n    <\/header>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"mrs-about-body\">\r\n\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-medium wp-image-37\">\r\n  <figure class=\"alignleft\">\r\n    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mrs-H-back-end-of-bus-197x300.png\" alt=\"Mrs Physics has been likened to the back end of a bus, personally she things you can't beat a routemaster for design.\" class=\"wp-image-37\" \/>\r\n    <figcaption>Mrs Physics has been likened to the back end of a bus, personally she thinks you can&#8217;t beat a routemaster for design.<\/figcaption>\r\n  <\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #420d0d;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Mrs Physics<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333;\">was a name coined by her daughter&nbsp;for a website. Mrs Physics has taught Physics in Scotland for a very long time in two schools, firstly in Hawick High School and then in Lockerbie Academy. She wanted to start a website for many years as a deposit for her resources for Scottish school students studying Physics and a handy place to find useful things. Not being an organised person she feels that if they\u2019re online even she might be able to locate things she needs. She has no background in computing, apart from during her sixth year at school when the wonderful BBC Micro arrived and she learned a bit of Basic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <figure class=\"alignright is-resized\">\r\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MrsP-Front.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-534\" width=\"198\" height=\"341\" \/>\r\n  <\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Mrs Physics has had an exciting career, even if it isn\u2019t considered successful. She has been privileged to be able to set SQA papers and questions and has marked for the SQA at two levels. She has confidence that the system is as robust as it can be, although not perfect.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>During 2004 she spent seven weeks at Chapelcross, learning that there is life outside teaching.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/438741_ee8bcdfc.jpg\" alt=\"Nuclear Power Station, before the towers came down\" \/>\r\n  <figcaption>Nuclear Power Station, before the towers came down<br><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Staff at the decommissioned nuclear plant were wonderful and she owes a great deal of gratitude to The Royal Society of Edinburgh for sponsoring this. Having attended the Scottish Space School at both Strathclyde and Houston, Texas, USA, she has a keen interest in Space and has started organising Regional trips to Space school in Houston, although the 2020 was cancelled due to covid \ud83d\ude2d. She got involved in the Royal Society (the London one) through the Partnership Grants Scheme and worked with Police Scotland Road Policing Division to put together material for school physics. This has opened amazing doors for both Mrs Physics and her students. They exhibited at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition and at the D&amp;G Science Festival. Students wrote up their work in the Young Scientist\u2019s Journal and were awarded a prize and another trip to the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. Renault supported her to attend Renault HQ and find out about car safety and Mr Physics got a trip to Belgium to pick up an EU prize for this work and also the wonderful EU Transport Commissioner Voileta Bluc visited the school (I&#8217;m still trying to find pictures as it was during the election so all had to be kept quiet). She loves Physics and wants people to realise not all Physics is hard. It encourages thinking and that must be a good thing. Mrs Physics has been down and seen the LHC @ CERN and the enormous CMOS collider. She&#8217;s also watched a film being made by ENERGY FORESIGHT, in London. If you have this DVD in school look in the credits. She was the one responsible for Orkney and Shetland appearing on the map! She also got to speak with the wonderful Gill Arbuthnott at several Edinburgh International Book Festivals, so has shared a yurt with lots of important authors, and she&#8217;s grateful to the Royal Society for arranging this.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <figure class=\"alignright is-resized\">\r\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mrs-P-point-down.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-532\" width=\"149\" height=\"257\" \/>\r\n  <\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>In 2017 she attended Science on Stage 2017 at Debrecan Hungary, and started a new Partnership Grant involving hearing tests. Science on Stage 2017 was an amazing experience and Mrs Physics&#8217; head is full of new ideas and contacts. She has hosted a Portuguese teacher who got involved with our Hear Today- Gone Tomorrow project and she spent a week in Portugal visiting our Portuguese teacher&#8217;s home and work spaces and taking Rosie with her. She even got to help teach in a Portuguese prison! She&#8217;s went back to Science on Stage at the end of 2019 in Cascais Portugal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Currently she is doing a bit of extra as an IoP (Scotland) Physics Coach, which is great fun on line and has put me back in touch with some pals a long way North. I just wish I could be helpful to those in D&amp;G!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\r\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geograph-3176665-by-M-J-Richardson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-677\" \/>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Both Scottish Borders and D&amp;G are a bit out on a limb, so Mrs Physics has tried to get things done in this Region so students aren\u2019t too disadvantaged by living in a beautiful part of Scotland. She was once the D&amp;G Curriculum Leader for Physics and arranged some weekends away in an Outward Bounds centre for teachers where they slept in bunk bed dormitories and burnt croissants in a microwave (completely unintentionally), and arranged for Dr Bunhead to run a Masterclass at Dumfries Academy, where the smoke alarms were activated and the whole school was evacuated. The students were quite surprised to see Dr Bunhead in the playground wearing his googles. In 2017 she finally persuaded the lovely Gail Miller to allow D&amp;G to host a Girl&#8217;s into Physics day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/teacher-clip-art-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"teacher\" class=\"wp-image-40\" \/>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>She thinks she has a sense of humour but her students don\u2019t really agree, although they do agree that she is an old biddy. What ex-students generally remember about her is that she writes backwards and drinks weak decaf tea from a huge mug. There are worse things to be remembered for, but she wishes a few more students would remember some things about Physics.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>She is just a tiny bit younger than the Lockerbie Ice rink and looks it too, although Mr Physics has said she has worn better \u2013 thanks!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-medium wp-image-60\">\r\n  <figure class=\"alignright\">\r\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/icerink-1200x767-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" \/>\r\n    <figcaption>The ice rink is definitely older than Mrs Physics \u2013 just!<\/figcaption>\r\n  <\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Mrs Physics has a very patient OH who is able to cook, which is pretty important for the two children; who would have starved long ago if she were in charge of that side of things. Mr Physics was once an academic who worked in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions. Fortunately he left to support his family especially Mrs Physics who needed more help than the children. He has now found a new role as the school science technician.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In any spare time she has she doesn\u2019t clean the house as most sensible home owners do but she goes to church and tries to visit her 56 foot canal boat as much as possible. It took four years to finally agree on Mostly Harmless as a boat name which is a quote from \u201cThe Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy\u201d: compulsory reading for any sentient being. During lockdown Mr Physics introduced her to Ordnance Survey Benchmarking, which you can read about in the blog. I think he regretted doing that but it kept her under control during lockdown and she&#8217;s now got her best friend searching the country for more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <figure class=\"alignleft\">\r\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2014_10_12_16_02_28_Fuji-Custom.jpg\" alt=\"2014_10_12_16_02_28_fuji-custom\" class=\"wp-image-41\" \/>\r\n  <\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <figure class=\"alignleft\">\r\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2014_10_12_15_56_00_Fuji-Custom.jpg\" alt=\"2014_10_12_15_56_00_fuji-custom\" class=\"wp-image-44\" \/>\r\n  <\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2014_10_12_15_52_12_Fuji-Custom.jpg\" alt=\"2014_10_12_15_52_12_fuji-custom\" class=\"wp-image-43\" \/>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n  <figure class=\"alignleft\">\r\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/mrsphysics-co-uk.stackstaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/inside-768x568-1.png\" alt=\"inside\" class=\"wp-image-47\" \/>\r\n  <\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Hopefully everyone can find something interesting here, if not let me know and she&#8217;ll see what she can do.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>People who have made a great impression on her and affected her Physics teaching include:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n  <li>Michael Birch: Physics Teacher, Chesterfield St. Helena School<\/li>\r\n  <li>Des Malone: Deptford Green School<\/li>\r\n  <li>Rob Gray: Hawick High School<\/li>\r\n  <li>Kevin Bailey: Wallace Hall Academy<\/li>\r\n  <li>Frank Callaghan: Annan Academy<\/li>\r\n  <li>Tom Balanowski: Linlithgow Academy<\/li>\r\n  <li>Dave Pound and Bob McEwen: Lockerbie Academy<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>Oh and she&#8217;s sorry, she&#8217;s just realised she forgot the most important person\u2026 Mr\/Dr Physics, the chef, household glue and the one who understands buoyancy!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Thanks to all of them!<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me Mrs Physics has been likened to the back end of a bus, personally she thinks you can&#8217;t beat a routemaster for design. 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