VCJChemistry

Chemistry Department of Victoria College (Jersey), HMC School of just under 700 boys. Following the CAIE International GCSE and A Level Chemistry courses.

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X/Twitter, it has been a complete pleasure being Head of Chemistry at Victoria College since 2007 and working there since September 2004. I will now hand over the reins, and this account, to Mrs Pallot & Ms Marks. It's been a blast. All the best, Mr Widdop. x

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Year 7 making an acid-base indicator from red cabbage, then testing household substances afterwards...a fun time was had by all, which lots of learning!

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Year 7 Chemistry Club, run by Ms Marks. Students making “slime”, an unusual viscoelastic substance. Fun being had by all…

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Ditch formula triangles and instead teach your learners to rearrange equations urges @MrWAitScience
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#iteachchem #teachingtips #scienceteachers

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Year 12 completing their first practical of the year - determining the formula of Epsom Salts via gravimetric analysis.

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Congratulations to all our Chemistry IGCSE students who picked up their results today and to our International A Level students who got their results last week. You all did brilliantly… very proud of you. Hard work pays off! @CambridgeInt @RoySocChem @RSC_EiC @GovJsyCYPES

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Year 12 carrying out an iodometric redox titration.

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A beautiful morning for the @victoriacollege annual cross country. Senior race just finishing…
Starting the timekeepers from an early age…

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The task was “simple”… I want pure copper(II) chloride in one week’s time. No practical instructions given… just prior knowledge on compound solubilities and the terms excess/limiting reagent. Let’s see how it goes! #practicalskills #CHEMISTRY #igcse

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Hiring: Teacher of KS3-5 Chemistry for Sept. 2024. Closing date: 12th March. https://t.co/C90j6Elrn2 @HMC_Org @RoySocChem @GovJersey @GovJsyCYPES @tes @tesScience @victoriacollege @GoodSchoolsUK @LinkedIn #edutwitter #edujobs #Science #teachingjobs #tes

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Happy Friday everyone. Beautiful (almost full) moon over the department this morning…

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It’s that time of the year…. Y11 have completed their three chemistry mock examination papers… Y13 start their first of five papers today!

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Year 12 AS students calculating the enthalpy of neutralisation of aqueous solutions of HCl and NaOH. #practicalscience

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Year 9 investigating how changing the concentration of sodium thiosulfate affects the rate of reaction with hydrochloric acid.

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And that’s it all over… a wonderful set of demos from @CLEAPSS and @SSERCofficial reps. Thank you @theASE for a highly informative 3 days. And a big thanks to @OHAUS_Corp for the wonderful free top pan balance! Back to Jersey for us now…

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@theASE conference is coming to an end. We have had a very useful 3 days here…will have attended 26 different seminars between the two of us. #cpd

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Y10 investigating how changing the temperature alters the rate of reaction between acidified potassium manganate(VII) and oxalic acid.