I get that. I find myself in content races and exam technique coaching so much of the time these days. But like you not a fan of one-size-fits-all structures and strictures.

Last time I had a KS3 class of my own was (I think) 1993-4 !! Just the odd bit of cover since then. I've lived exclusively in 14-18 niche since coming back in 2013. Pros and cons.

Now I have THAT tune on replay in my head ...

This backstory is all new to me. I did see something war-related in one of Richard Brock's IoP Stories pamphlets about Geiger and Marsden being on opposite sides in the 14-18 war. I wonder whether some of the interesting historical stuff will survive the next review of the specifications.

I didn't know the war backstory till very recently. Might add "get good science grades and maybe avoid conscription" to the Y11 options recruitment booklet ;)

"This used to be on the specs but no longer is" has become a kind of post-16 catchphrase for me. I've always included him and his graph. Can provoke phys v chem banter about whether Z is merely nuclear charge in arbitrary units (and also whether charge should be treated as a discrete variable ...)

I'm putting a price list up tomorrow ...

Relentlessly promote science teaching as a worthy career with immense job satisfaction and no negatives whatsoever whilst keeping a straight face.

During my second headship (a school in special measures, late noughties) we stopped having n-u-ds because attendance counter-productively went down, we assumed for the kind of reasons you are suggesting in your thread. Several charities were in the habit of asking for them at that time.

Try zodiac sign just for the LOLs

Thank you so much for this. It helps put my life into perspective. I wonder how many Handys and villas he has got through in the last 28 years!

What was Lothar up to, please, on the day that I officially became a groundhopper? It was 5 October 1996 and I had no justifiable reason for being at Brentford 4 Rotherham Utd 2 at Griffin Park, other than I'd never been before.