My husband and I have a fairly big age difference and when explaining phone boxes to our teenage daughter recently he said 'it was 2p in my day' and I got to feel much younger and say it was 20p in the nineties!

Thanks for this thread Emma. Disappointingly, my mother reads the Daily Mail and brought up this headline last night. I was able to give her a full response to which she had no reply!

That's exactly the video I showed my class today! Shame it's not available anymore. Not sure the budget will stretch to £400+ ☹️ Thanks though!

Not really. I did increase the proportion of online tasks and any written tasks like exam qs I just put in OneNote. I think students find things more convenient plus there isn't the excuse of 'I lost the sheet'. In Sept I'd also 'drop into' their OneNote and give reminders just before the due date.

We're in our first year of 1:1 across the whole school and I'm a big fan. Our students handwrite with an Apple Pencil in OneNote. Marking is so much easier. Homework completion is up. Printing costs have plummeted. Quizzing and interactives like phet are amazing. But yes, they are heavily managed!

Here's my rapidly improvised colander technique this morning. It's a bit hazy but still a nice effect.

Once a week would be a dream! I teach across 6 different labs in the week plus tutor time twice a day on the other side of school. It's usually not more than 3 lab changes in a day though. It helps to have an office plus kids on devices so pretty much paperless.

I love it when Robert Winston tells the students that he doesn't recommend they try it tonight.