The SQA Biology exams took place yesterday. I managed to get my hands on a complete set of papers in the afternoon so I was able to have a look at them last night. Here are a few thoughts.
Standard Grade General Level.
I thought this was quite a hard paper. Both the kidney and the heart were covered [...]
On Friday I attended our Biology Subject Support Group meeting at Preston Lodge High School, chaired by Fraser Kiernan. These meetings are always good for catching up with fellow East Lothian Biology Teachers and of course sharing our good practice. We covered many topics during Friday’s meeting including relevant resources, risk assessment and a proposal [...]
We are now in our second week of an HMIe inspection at Knox Academy. This is our week of intensive observation.
Although my department was not chosen to be fully inspected, we were hoping that we would have the satisfaction of an HMIe visit.
Today was our/my lucky day! I was fortunate enough to have the [...]
The Biology Department at Knox Academy put on a fish dissection annually. We do this every February during a named lunchtime. We show the dissection under our video microscope on screen. It can sometimes be quite difficult to identify the various inner organs, so we have a prepared slide show on a second screen that [...]
I have been meaning to write a post on this topic for quite a while.
Having taught Biology and Science at every level of the curriculum, I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of a pupil’s ability, commitment and general enthusiasm for my subject. I can sincerely say that all SQA Biology courses [...]
With an HMI inspection looming, time is very tight. I feel confident that we will gain very good feed back.
However, I am starting to upload lots of jpegs onto flickr. These can be used by pupils and staff for projects. There are no copyrights so feel free to edit and distribute.
You will find the first sets for [...]
