The annual year 13 aspirin making project has been done. Crude product is ready for drying. Some impressive yields this year!
Utterly spoiled by team science today! They're the best. Turning 40 ended up not being as bad as I thought!
When it’s your lead tech’s birthday and you can’t not decorate the prep room! Happy birthday Mrs Dawes!
Using @HelloFreshUK boxes to teach my 10 year old to cook this week! Fragrant chicken and coconut curry tonight. Read all of the instructions and did all of the cooking himself (supervised, of course) and expanded his palate in the process. He’s so proud (and so am I 🤩)
Today marks 30 years since I was first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It’s a weird milestone to mark, but feels like it shouldn’t be ignored. Diabetes is relentless, and affects literally everything. It takes some serious fighting!
Another reason why being a lab tech is a job like no other. Shopped for 4 beautiful bunches of flowers on my way home tonight. Carried them home and will carefully carry them to school in the morning. And year 7 will then dissect them to identify the different parts of a flower!
What technicians do in their holidays! Took my son to see the Watkins waterfalls in snowdonia today. One of my favourite spots on Earth. Loved sharing it with my boy today! I’ll make a hiker of him yet 🥰
Update! Year 11 handled this taste of a level chemistry so well! Really proud of them all - varying success rates on the mirrors but they should all be pleased with their results 😃 @MrLordChem
I love it when this demo works this well! Trialled for a lesson tomorrow - the teacher running the lesson has asked for ‘exactly what I used to make that!’ Hoping our year 11s get some spectacular mirrors 🤩
Can’t believe I almost missed this! Where would we be without the periodic table? Happy periodic table day everyone 😃 @MrLordChem @MissShahChem
45% of children in the city of Manchester are living below the poverty line. This is a horrifying statistic, but what’s worse is that this only makes Manchester the THIRD WORST CITY for child poverty in the UK. The system is broken. – at North West, England
For anyone terrified of falling on the ice at the moment (like me - didn’t end well last time) - invest in microspikes. Not slipped once today, and way more confident walking in it! Helpful tech tip there 😃
One of my favourite (and most inventive!) starters for an endo/exo lessons! Great start for a class of year 10s today 😃
Using the holidays to encourage my small fry to appreciate the outside spaces! #hikingadventures #outdoors Beacon Fell trig bagging
