by Georgina | Jul 15, 2019 | Education, Story
The afternoon began with a trip to the theatre and ended in an internet search for the DNA profiling of Tsar Nicholas and his family. The Theatre Royal Windsor showed a straight play this afternoon called The Anastasia File. Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar...
by Georgina | Jun 17, 2019 | Education
Grade boundaries are always the cause of much speculation. Are they high? Low? Does it mean anything? The bottom line is that students think that low grade boundaries are wonderful – but are they? And does it matter anyway? Grade boundaries are set so that the harder...
by Georgina | Apr 8, 2019 | Education
Genetically modifying animals has never sat very comfortably on my conscience. I’ve just come across an article that has done much to change my mind. A professor with family roots in the Cameroon, is leading pioneering science to genetically modify livestock to...
by Georgina | Mar 25, 2019 | Education, Fun
There is no better way to engage young children in science that to offer to let them do ‘an experiment’. The golden rule before you begin anything vaguely scientific with a small child is to establish the very first law of laboratory safety. Don’t put anything in your...
by Georgina | Mar 8, 2019 | Education
When the new curriculum was introduced three or four years ago, there was an outcry when it was announced that the ‘practical exam’ was being dropped. At the time, the media fed us a frenzy half truths, suggesting that practical skills were no longer important in...
by Georgina | Feb 25, 2019 | Education, Story
Whether we perceive the ability to remember twenty-something physics equations as useful or useless, it remains a fact of life that for the foreseeable future that young people sitting GCSE Combined Science or Physics have to do exactly that. An analysis of the...
