Chemical Warfare

January 25, 2017

Firstly, and before I forget, a very Happy New Year to all of my readers! I hope you had a good one wherever in the world you are. I have been meaning to write this for a while but other blog posts seem to get in the way! The post was developed after I read a news...

Christmas Plant Indicators

December 21, 2016

Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, chances are you will be familiar with the Poinsetta plant (see image below). Poinstetta’s are traditional Christmas plants due to their deep red colour and originate from Mexico. Image kindly sourced from: By André Karwath...

Planetary Round Up

November 18, 2016

Saturn’s hexagon – have you heard of it? It is quite easy to see from the above images – and isn’t it amazing? A near perfect, natural hexagon of immense proportions. The sides of the hexagon are estimated to be nearly 14,000km in length – to put that into...

How well do YOU do it?

August 1, 2016

ATL or Approaches to Teaching and Learning. Hopefully, this will not be a new phrase or acronym to you and that your teachers will have exposed you to it…. But what is it? Well, ATL has been part of IB for at least 18 months and most probably even longer than that....

The New Extended Essay

June 24, 2016

Were you aware that a new EE guide was out? It has been live for around three months and is for first examinations May 2018, so that will be students whom you start to teach this coming August / September. Now that things have got quieter with IB teaching (IB2...

The Halogens and the Sea

June 17, 2016

There are a few references to lab work in this post – I do need to stress that any labs you carry out need to be under the supervision of one of your teachers (and risk assessed by the teacher) and carried out in school. I have always been fascinated by the link with...