Biology Teachers!
Tickets are now available for this summer’s Adelphi teacher conference.
Please spread the word!

Biology Teachers!
Tickets are now available for this summer’s Adelphi teacher conference.
Please spread the word!

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

Show Your Working! This is a work in progress. I’m going to collect together workings for how to complete some of the trickier maths questions in the AQA A-level (and AS) Biology papers as I find myself showing stude…

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I’ve been using this a lot over the last few weeks!!

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

Roy, I’m so incredibly sad to hear the news about Dawn. You are in my thoughts

One more week to go. Yeah - it feels tighter this year with y11 and y13 for sure

The Words of the Week - Mar. 28 Dictionary lookups from politics and government

These are your words of the week

oligarchy
annexation
verisimilitude
outrageous
doge
tartuffery

www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

Thanks Darren - will mention to husband

Thanks Stuart - will mention to husband

And is it something a GP would contact a man about? Like we get reminders about cervical screening?

Is this a thing that men should get done routinely? If so, at what age?

a cat is laying on a bed and looking at the camera with the words `` current status '' written next to it . ALT: a cat is laying on a bed and looking at the camera with the words `` current status '' written next to it .

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.

I had to google “death slide”

Guess what I taught today #GWITT

Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans As people have shaped the natural world, so wildlife – from mahoganies to magpies – has had to evolve to survive

Lovely article with several examples of how species have evolved due to humans:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think there’s a definite split between secular Christmas and christian Christmas in the U.K. - mainly in terms of dates celebrated (1st - 26th Dec vs 24 Dec - 6th Jan) and “characters”. (🎄🎅🏼elf vs nativity)

Challenge for 2025 📚

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

Yup. For two hours 😇

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.