These pages are for students of GCSE, AS and A2 Physics and AS Electronics. You will also find material for ICT AS and A2.

Although the pages are particularly designed for AQA, they also will help with the syllabi from other boards.

Thanks

I would like to thank all those who have given so generously; it is deeply appreciated.  If I haven't thanked you personally, I apologise.  Please accept my heartfelt thanks.

Thursday 18th August 2011

I have returned to work today, to find out how my students got on in their A2 and AS levels.  I very much hope that you have gained the result that you have worked so hard for.  l also wish you every success at university, or whatever you have chosen to do after A levels.

Gloom Spot

I went on leave on 22nd July.  There has been so much gloom in these three weeks.

First there was the appalling news come from Norway.  I can only commend those in Norway whose dignified response to this miserable episode contrasts so eloquently to the hate-filled ramblings of Anders Breivik.  It was appropriate to see this loathsome man being taken tied to a rope.  It is also appropriate that he is confined in a prison that was used by the Nazis.  If he were alive at the time of his heroes, Breivik's future would have been short and nasty, at the end of which would have stood a gallows or a guillotine.

Then we have watched the global economy go down the pan.  What I know about Economics can be written on a about three for four lines of A4.  But this notion of short-selling strikes me as theft.

There can be no excuse for the "shopping with recreational violence" that wrecked Tottenham, Croydon, Manchester, and Salford.  It was plain criminal, as was the attempt by two misguided young men who wanted to wreck Warrington and Northwich (my home town).  The imbeciles responsible must be prepared to accept their punishment.  When people complain that the punishments are excessive, they will do well to remember that peoples' livelihoods and homes have been destroyed.  Arson is a serious criminal offence for which the punishment is life.  We have seen the sickening scenes of the young low lives pretending to help a young man while helping themselves to his I-pad and mobile phone.  On the other hand, we have seen the public-spirited young people who helped to clear up the mess, and the dignified response of a bereaved father telling his audience to "stop messing about and go home".  Which they did, and saved who-knows-what trouble in Birmingham.

However our leaders must look to set the highest possible standards, if they are to address the "sick society".  That they have not, as yet, is evidenced in:

• the bankers' and their greed;
• the MPs' expenses scandal;
• the phone hacking scandal, which is showing considerable wrong-doing.

The communities from which the rioters came will not tend to vote for the Conservative Party; the bankers will.

There has to be a complete change from the air-headed worship of celebrity (an old-fashioned word for which is idolatry).  While many of these are talented people, I cannot support the vast sums of money that these people take for themselves.  We all know that there are footballers whose pay would make a banker blush.  Contracts are signed that would pay for a new school that will last for years.  Instead it goes to some foul-mouthed young man who spends it on increasingly large houses in which no vulgarity is spared. And who "plays away".

The money is there, but in the hands of the undeserving rich.  The Chancellor of the Exchequer (a multi-millionaire himself) wants tax cuts for the rich, so they will invest.  They will invest in super-accountants who will use very trick in the book to avoid paying their dues.  Trees rot from the top...

This Site

I shall be rewriting this site from scratch, and changing the format.  I have been busy writing new lesson plans and schemes of work.  I will be adopting a different approach in my teaching which will be based on key questions.  Therefore the structure of the new site will be based on lessons rather than topics, each lesson being broken down into key questions.  Learning objectives, syllabus statements, and links will be made for each lesson.  I am doing this because the file structure of the site is now chaotic, with duplications all over the place, as well as errors that have driven one or two readers bonkers.  I will try to make the site compatible with web-browsers like Firefox.  I still like Internet Explorer, even though a (hoax) piece of research suggested that those who like Internet Explorer are intellectually more challenged...

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