MrsC_STEM🦄

@dewhurst_ben Advanced open water????

Teaching, eh? Last Friday - Inter- House music competition Monday - House Formals Yesterday 👇 Today...

@WyHighHCL What a brilliant trip, well done Mr R, Mrs L and any pther teachers there! I loved Pompeii too! Keep being brilliant we miss you!

A phenomenal visit to Pompeii, with Vesuvius looming over us 🏛🌋

@Ri_Science Hedy Lamaar, she deserves to know what we did with her frequency switching technology!

You could have a coffee with any scientist - living or dead - who are you choosing and why?

@STEMyBanda Team coach award 👏 Well done team, I loved FLL events.

@HelenHart18 @ChatPhysics @chatbiology @ChatChemistry Thanks that's good to know. Good comment about essay subject, she's got history on her list, so that should cover any comments in the future.

@Cosh_STEM @ChatPhysics @chatbiology @ChatChemistry It shouldn't be a problem. I didn't take English Lit at 16 and nobody has ever asked me why. Having an essay subject at GCSE will be a good idea though.

Daughter is picking GCSE subjects how many subjects do your schools do? My old school Stu took 11 which I thought was the norm. Here she can pick 8 seems low, she will be back in UK for 6thform/uni #edutwitter @ChatPhysics @chatbiology @ChatChemistry

@ChatPhysics @chatbiology @ChatChemistry I can get her up to 9 by teaching physics at home. But Eng lit is not a compulsory subject here (lang is) I know we are all science here, anyone got an idea how vital it is to accessing HE..?

@Cosh_STEM @chatbiology @ChatChemistry Mostly the norm these days is to match the Progress 8 So many schools will do Maths, English Lit, English Lang, Combined Science (so 2 GCSE) and then 4 choices - so in total 9 GCSEs. That is pretty standard although some schools will do only 8, some 10.

@Sara55974879 @ChatPhysics I used @BernardRand ones, they worked well for us!

@ChatPhysics hello everyone. I am new to teaching A level Physics and doing OCR A. Can anyone direct me to SLOP type booklets I can get? My year 13s are well under target, any advice or interventions you could suggest? Apologies but I am in a bit of a hole at the moment!

@MarathonSmudge1 @chris_dwyer1 Why stop? A class of 24 is a great size class! I've never managed to convince anyone to let me teach it, such a great subject!

@chris_dwyer1 Chris as well as being highly placed academically does it have lots of students studying?

@ParsonsPhysics @edmunds_dr I feel the same, but I moved abroad and the government won't let me have a work permit here. I won't say I'll never go back to it.

Whenever I see a physics teacher here with a 🦄 emoji next to their name, it makes me chuckle.

@STEMyBanda @ChatPhysics @edmunds_dr I did last year, it was my first time. Learnt a lot, needed support from our DT dept, they are fab. Competition day was a great day!

@STEMyBanda Love love love lego league. I really miss my lego groups 😭

@STEMyBanda @titchabelle That's an amazing story! Defo needs a badge, my students (and staff) loved the @titchabelle STEM badges. I miss giving them out, although I left some so they can be continue to be given out!

Meeting my new neighbours #lovemygarden

I need a fig expert! Never owned or eaten figs, except in figs roll biscuits! Now I own this beautiful tree. Figs are bursting open on the tree (it rained for 20mins the other morning), but everything I look up, says these aren't ripe. Can I do anything with them?

Like this one!

This was my reading book during our journey across Europe. Loved it! As a scuba diver I love octopus and cuttlefish, but didn't know they lived 2 years, breed once and then die! The comparison on evolution of our nervous systems and theirs was fascinating!

I'd forgotten just how disrupted our current year 11's and 13's time had been through secondary school!

@mxcharlier @doc_kristy Our student wore glasses and struggled with the over glasses goggles we had, so you may need to consider appropriate goggles for them too, we bought some that worked!

@Cosh_STEM @doc_kristy That was my thinking, there will be a TA helping and I'd rather be inclusive than treat him like a toddler. ...mind you still not sure who's group he will be in. I just wanted to gather some intel from the hive mind.

Any experience out there teaching students with little to no functional vision? Got a great lad starting next year who is smart inquisitive with almost no vision and need ideas how to be inclusive in science. HALP

@mxcharlier @doc_kristy No, wasn't necessary for us, and wouldn't matter if things got broken, just RA for his safety. He did food tech with normal kitchen equipment, we just got very brightly coloured knives etc! He is fab and wanted very much to have the same as everyone else!

@Cosh_STEM @doc_kristy Did you ever swap out glassware for plastic?