Dr Flower

I've not used this account for a while, and I'm moving on from St Ivo Academy, so it's probably safe to say this account is no longer active.

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@RobGeog @StIvoAcademy 10 years for me (on and off.) Does that make me half your age ;-) ?

Well that’s year 20 done at @StIvoAcademy! What a year at that. Hope year 21 is not as eventful! Hope all my fellow teachers on here have a great summer and well deserved break. Thank you all for you inspiration, advice and idea over the year! #schoolsoutforsummer

Teaching in multiple classrooms next year for the first time in a while. Going to need to be organised (but will also get my steps up which might help lose the lockdown lard)

If you touch two CLEAN blocks of the same metal together in space, they weld! Atoms in solid metals move a bit. Touch two clean surfaces together, and the atoms can't tell they're in different blocks so they become one group of atoms, ie ONE SOLID. (Gif: homemadetools.net/forum/cold-wel…)

This document was produced at the request of DfE by members of their advisory group, drawing on examples from school leaders as to how they will implement DfE guidance for the return to school in September. unitedlearning.org.uk/portals/0/unit…

today i took apart some electrolytic capacitors, and learned some surprising things. i wanted to review the manufacturing process, but let's first take apart this capacitor. 🧵

@SecondaryUk Have you seen the work of @AceThatTest ? They have ready made powerpoints of 6 key strategies I’ve used with pupils and parents. Not a scheme, but a start. learningscientists.org

@EnserMark @greeborunner YES! This is exactly what I needed - thanks! I'm in the very early stages of creating a scheme of work for pupils in form time that helps them understand memory and best ways to retrieve/learn, have you seen anything like this? I'm on the hunt before I start from scratch! :)

*** NEW POST *** How might our pupils benefit from an increased understanding of the conditions for learning? @greeborunner muses on her experience of sharing ideas from cognitive science with her students and the impact it has had. teachreal.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/her…

***FINISHED RESOURCES*** Done. Finito. -9 GCSE booklets -13 A level booklets -220 freely downloadable physics resources -80k site visits -110k resource downloads This is about as much of a one stop shop for secondary physics as I could imagine. sciencedoctor.school.blog 1/5

NEW POST: "This much I know about…providing direction for my Subject Leader colleagues for September"...with added detailed planning grid for four different scenarios. wp.me/p2wufC-183

@tstarkey1212 So what you’re saying the pandemic has taught us is that you can write the same stuff as before but add the word pandemic?

Catching up on all the 'what the pandemic has taught us' pieces. They're a lot like the pieces written before the pandemic, just with added pandemic.

@stoneman_claire Looks like a toe and a knee. Toe knee Blair?

10. The moral of the story: get organised and have great colleagues who can help you get organised. Oh, and don’t plan for a lesson featuring a sketch of a toe as a resource 🤷‍♀️😂

*Thread* 1. I’ve just found my academic diary from 2002-2003 when I was a very new teacher. The contents are hilarious.

New Post today: Simple Harmonic Motion, Dual Coding and Top Gear (for some reason) emc2andallthat.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/shm…

@MrDoverRE I think you can probably expect your timetable to change quite significantly. Think you’d be entitled to the key worker provision. It’s difficult to know at the moment though, and I’m sure it’ll be different from school to school.

Sat wondering what this means for my family. I teach 2ndary so may be in to teach Y10 exam class, but that is 100 mins three times a week. MrsD works in a Primary office so maybe in more as they become busier, but daughter is Y2.

Our latest blog post explains our arrangements for grading GCSE, AS and A level qualifications in summer 2020, and also links to some short videos for teachers and students. Read the post here - ofqual.blog.gov.uk/2020/04/09/arr…

Today’s meme is especially for my Y12 chemists. Sure they’ll be howling at this now we’re well into organic chemistry 😂😂😂@hartlepoolsixth

Even though school is closed, you can still get support if you or someone you know needs it Childline childline.org.uk NSPCC nspcc.org.uk Click CEOP online safety ceop.police.uk/safety-centre/ YoungMinds youngminds.org.uk #WeAreAstrea Please RT

NEW POST. My experience of remote learning. How during closure we: 1. Used work of ⁦@daisychristo⁩ 2. Managed workload 3. Ensured appropriate teacher/ pupil interactivity 4. Prioritised high-impact methods 5. Maintained sense of school community …nethingafteranotherblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/my-…