Occasionally a senior member of staff would show parents and potential students around the school, and they would be ushered into the lab with me in my pink lab coat, music playing, and everyone absorbed in the music and what they were doing. There are then lots of worked examples, gradually getting more difficult and showing as many variations on a calculation as possible. However, a bump at the base of the dune was enough for the sledge to become airborne for a brief moment before landing on the damp, compact, concrete-hard sand of the beach. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. If you want to suggest a page or site that I might like to link to on Chemguide's links page, please read this page first.

The resulting back injury required the attendance and use of the Cornwall Air Ambulance, as can be seen in the picture. The last year of 11+ (which uniquely included some 10+ students as well that year – my son, Paul was one) generated one of the best years ever.This book was approved by Edexcel International for use with their IGCSE Chemistry syllabus, and was also adapted by Ray Oliver from my GCSE book. Chemguide is designed as a tool to assist 16–18-year-old chemistry students and is estimated to be used by almost every A-Level chemistry student in the UK, with around 1. Thank you Jim: and if you ever fancy popping in for a coffee with Pete and myself, you would be most warmly welcomed, and our students of course would be completely star struck!

Guides students through each exercise with help and hint boxes as they gradually progress through the text. Calculations in A Level Chemistry guides your students through the various types of calculations which they will encounter during their AS/A level course in a clear and simple way. I'mcurrentlyonaB/AgradeatthemomentandneedanA/A*atA2,andIdon'tstrugglewiththemathstbh,Igetthemolarcalculationsfrequentlywrongthoughduetosillymistakes. I was both delighted and a little intimidated, but I couldn’t wait to tell my A-Level students as I knew they would be as impressed and amazed as I was.As of July 2016, I am unlikely to add anything new to Chemguide, apart from the occasional bit of maintenance to make sure that it is as accurate as possible. You mightn’t expect this to appeal to teenagers, but it did, and if I forgot to put it on, they invariably reminded me.