Updated Alevel and GCSE higher grade boundaries - handy to keep on your camera roll / print for your desk.

Save The Date: The Adelphi Genetics Teachers’ Conference in Manchester is booked for Fri 26th June 2026

Check out what one of my super talented, crafty Y13s made for me as a teaching aid. Can you tell what it shows?

These are your words of the week oligarchy annexation verisimilitude outrageous doge tartuffery www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

I have hit the Easter shaped wall.

#TubClub update March 2025

Geeked out a bit in the air raid tunnels in Stockport - moss growing on the sandstone roof but only about 30cm from electric lights

Bottle of full sugar coke ready for year 13 - we will measure blood glucose concentration throughout the lesson and graph the results

We’ve made the move over from Twitter /X. Thank you for following us. Please do spread the word.

A-level Topic 8 Biotechnology Emoji Quiz Can you name the technique / enzyme / chemical being described by the emojis?

Trying to get Y13 to see this biotech bit as a series of tools in a tool box which can be mix and matched, rather than a series of fixed processes to learn.

Year 9 had a go at estimating their own SA:vol today.

Guess what I taught today #GWITT

Lovely article with several examples of how species have evolved due to humans: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Challenge for 2025 📚

Just spent 5 mins trying to unlock my front door at home with my lab key. #TeacherTired

Current status. Sat in my lab on my own with all the lights off 😂

I told my Y12s a kitten dies every time someone says “energy is created”. Got this message from a former student last night.

@chatbiology.bsky.social can I be lazy and ask if anyone has a pre-made test covering the whole of GCSE biology Topic 6 with markscheme? Proper AQA questions. TIA

I told Y11 I was open to bribery at parents’ evening

It was only a handful of women, middle class, of a certain age. You know the type.

Sort out at home. Taking this beauty into work for reasons of sarcasm. “Oh hello, AQA? Just to let you know Bobby wasn’t in when we did cells so please can you make sure you remove all questions from the 2025 papers about cells. Thanks!”

The #biololtree is coming along nicely!

An awful story - heartbreaking. The UK’s version of “Genie”? #GCSEpsychology #psychology #alevelpsychology www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

A list of bands in order of efficacy: 3. Placebo 2. The Cure 1. Prevention

I don’t have favourite students… but if you make me cookies I will definitely appreciate you ♥️

Feeling competitive @chatbiology.bsky.social

Oops. Just snapped the gas key in half.

@chatbiology.bsky.social is there a Chat Biology “starter pack”? Just trying to get my head around tbis

Overheard a dad and son this morning “Dad, do you think Spider-Man could climb up that pole because it’s wet?” “I don’t know. What do you think?” What a lovely reply to a question; I could definitely use that in the classroom to encourage students to verbalise their thoughts.

I can’t decide what to do about Twitter.. I really don’t to use the platform while Musk is in charge and he has definitely ruined it. Move over here for good or use the opportunity to have a bit of a digital detox…?