If you attended the RSC How to prepare your students for the chemistry olympiad session this evening - this is the link for the resources tinyurl.com/y6p3clky

"The truth is that nothing in life is ever so simple. People are invariably a mix of good and bad qualities...Their intentions in doing something can be helpful and harmful to us at the same time, a result of their ambivalent feelings towards us." amzn.to/3miuLBQ

**Learning loss or learning decay?** A year ago our writing assessments found that Year 7s were 22 months behind expectations. Not great! But we predicted they might bounce back, & that the issue was learning decay, not learning loss. One year on & we've assessed them again.

Always love Adam Boxer’s blogs, but this is a belter. Teaching for over 20 years and still learning the craft. Thanks for writing.

Hi all, We are deep into mock exams and we have had even more people than usual claiming to have dyslexia and asking for extra help. You weren’t dyslexic last year, Janice, and quite frankly I would have expected better from the Head of English, so mark your own exams. Thanks x

Really useful read from Tom Grafton⚗️🔬🔭 to make sure the first 10 minutes of lesson aren’t a waste and aren’t deluding us verydynamicequilibria.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/do-…

Cultural appropriation is a dumb idea that caught on because it sounds complicated due to its many syllables. Catnip for middlebrow college graduates.

I’ve found someone to do all the long lens staring at the sky shots on top of mountains for the next series. Nobody will notice.

🚨"Who exactly does the @MetPoliceUK work for ma'am? Our citizens, or Boris Johnson?" 🚨 (Location: New Scotland Yard. Sound on)

Extraordinary story about why medical orgs like WHO and CDC took so long to acknowledge Covid was airborne (and why handwashing etc was emphasised at the start + not masks etc...) wired.com/story/the-teen…

Just made this RP grid for proton NMR docs.google.com/presentation/d…

The Met seem to be operating a two-tier system, with one rule for those in power and one rule for everyone else. Enough. We're suing. glplive.org/cj-metpolice-tw

CALLING ALL TEACHERS: If you are a trainee, current or former teacher, could I please ask for 5-10 minutes of your time to help me out with my dissertation research by filling out my questionnaire. If you could also retweet this- I would be very grateful😊 forms.gle/jLXFbuvRrZC3kz…

So this MP is warning against being racist to Oligarchs? Full interview on What The F Is Going On? (Ep 32)

VIDEO UPDATE To help you/your students to prepare for the A level Chemistry exams this summer I am making walkthroughs of past exam questions (not using most recent papers) on specific topics. See photo for what I’ve done so far. Adding all the time! youtube.com/user/MaChemGuy

Looks like practicals are being discussed again. Short thread: If you are going to be doing a practical I *highly* recommend going for a Slow Practical 1 wp.me/p8d7zK-Dt

This is a travesty. 🤯 What’s worse, far too many of us don’t think it is problematic at all. 😫 theguardian.com/technology/202…