Rae Chilton

@labtech666.bsky.social

RSciTech, school physics technician for 24 years, enthusiastic about STEM clubs, autistic. I really like rubber ducks (not a euphamism - actual toy rubber ducks.)

Question: If a pigeon flies into one of the labs and refuses to leave, whose responsibility is it? I played the 'that sounds like biology to me' card and passed the problem over to a more qualified colleague!

A colleague just incredulously emailed me this article and I, completely unsurprised, noted that while teaching I had at least two students try to eat copper sulfate crystals. Something about those blue crystals is clearly too alluring! www.tes.com/magazine/new... #ChatChemistry

Warning over students ingesting copper sulphate

DfE issues health alert after a helpline supporting safe science practical work warns of students ‘deliberately’ consuming the chemical compound

tes.com

CLEAPSS and LabLogger The collaboration will use anonymised requisition data from LabLogger to build a picture of school science practical work. Participation is entirely voluntary (opt-in), and no personal data is shared in the process. For more info see science.cleapss.org.uk

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Quick poll time, it would be very useful for our work to know how many labs you have in your school. Sadly we can't do this via a voting poll, so please just reply with how many labs (teaching labs + prep rooms) you have. Please also share this with others Thanks for your help in this 👍

Year 8 have examined all the evidence and have concluded that it was the Head of Physics who killed the gryphon, using a circus baton as a weapon, so that he could get a gryphon feather to wear on his fancy hat!

Rae Chilton@labtech666.bsky.social · last yr.

As part of enrichment week, tomorrow our Year 8 students are going to try to solve the murder of the school's pet gryphon. I've had a lot of fun preparing fingerprints, blood spatters, and footprint casts for them.

As part of enrichment week, tomorrow our Year 8 students are going to try to solve the murder of the school's pet gryphon. I've had a lot of fun preparing fingerprints, blood spatters, and footprint casts for them.

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