Professor Splash
During break some of the staff were talking about a video they had seen on the web about a guy called Professor Splash who belly flops into 30cm of water from about 9m (new record is now 11m). I thought...
Red sky at night shepherds delight
Just been doing scattering with my HL class and was getting myself confused trying to explain the blue sky in the day compared to the red sky at sunset. I think I might have been mixing up to different...
Fukushima
There has been a lot in the press about the reactor at Fukushima that was damaged by the earthquake in Japan. The type of Reactor is not the same as the type that is in most text books so I did a bit...
Tele-revision
I've finished the syllabus, the trial exam is over and it's time for some revision. This applies only to my SL class of course since we won't finish the HL syllabus until the last lesson. So how can we...
Tsunami
We are all shocked by the news of the tsunami in Japan and are thoughts are with the families who have lost their loved ones and homes. Many of us teaching in international schools have students from...
Treadhill
I was staying at a hotel the other week and thought I'd pay the gym a visit. usually just train upper body strength since that's what I need for rock climbing however the Gym didn't have any of the usual...
Jetski
Reading the article about the inflatable backpack made me think about the time I got avalanched. It happened on the mountain behind my house and it wasn't a big one but scary all the same. I was out alone...
Snowpulse
Just got back from a workshop in Berlin where I met as always an enthusiastic bunch of teachers. On the plane I was flicking through the in flight magazine and found an interesting article on a new safety...
A bridge too far
The weather wasn't kind and the snow project was cancelled due to lack of snow and all the ebay purchases have been stored for use at a later date. I guess we could have transported all the student to...
Trials and tribulations
This morning my students sat their trial papers and this afternoon I marked them. I actually marked paper 1 before the students had finished paper 2, I just wanted to wind up the History teacher who was...