Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Physics trip opportunity


We have been given an exciting opportunity to take a group of students to a talk about The Higgs Boson at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.  This event takes place on Friday 7thDecember.  It will begin at 1.30am and we should be back in school by 4.00pm. It is entitled “The Higgs Boson: a weight off all our minds” and is given by Dr William Murray – from STFC and CERN.  It is open to Y11 and there are only 14 places, so it is first come first served.

Please collect a letter from Ms Hamnett and return to the school shop

Chemistry work for Wednesday 21st November and homework

I'm not well enough for school today - my voice didn't survive yesterday.

The aims of today's lesson is to get you familiar with some online resources, to revise some of your earlier chemistry work so it stays fresh in your minds and to move forward with electrolysis. What you don't finish in today's lesson is your homework for Monday - please record in your planner.

Well done to those of you who completed the self-assessment assignments I set you on kerboodle recently - I have recorded your marks and will talk to you about these. I'm not sure that you can do these now if you haven't already, but if you can please do them (if not I will re-assign them later). There is some new work on Kerboodle relating to electrolysis, and a 'test yourself' on structure and bonding to see how well you remember that - be sure to go through the questions once you have submitted and read the feedback on the ones you get wrong.

If you can't get onto kerboodle email me on tla@cheney.oxon.sch.uk - remember the school code is 5166

Sunflower is another online resource which you now have individual logins for. Your username should be the same as your kerboodle one - it's surnameforename with no space, all lower case e.g. curtisadams. Your password is the same but with your tutor group's letter and number e.g. a01 for Austin 1 (no spaces again - e.g. curtisadamsa01). The school code is chen08. There are assignments set for you here too. The periodic table can be rotated to view it as a bar chart of various different properties.

Finally the questions below can be answered directly into the blog, and will be saved to a google spreadsheet for me to mark:

Have a look at the bitesize electrolysis resources for help.