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Chemistry
Chemistry remains a very popular subject at Clifton. Everyone takes the subject up to GCSE; most do Chemistry as a separate subject and some do Chemistry as part of "Dual Science".
| Head of Chemistry |
Dr Timothy Greene BA DPhil |
| Teachers |
Mrs Rachel E Crosby BSc (Hons) PGCE
Mrs Gillian Donald BSc
Mr Oliver Dunning BSc
Mr Jonathan Gardner MChem
Mr Peter Middleton MA
Mrs Ruth Williams BSc
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| Chief Chemistry Technician |
| Mrs Jacky Baldwin |
| Chemistry Assistant |
| Ms Sam Randall |
Resources
Each of our five teaching rooms is also a fully equipment laboratory with full services, apparatus, fume cupboard, TV + video as well as a computer which can be used with a computer projector to show networked CD Roms etc.
Teaching
Chemistry at Clifton is a very practical subject with experimental work seen as the core of the course both up to GCSE and A Level. In addition, the art of the Chemistry Demonstration is still alive and well at Clifton! The A2 course work consists of a 3-4 week Investigation - we have a smaller research lab where many of the students can keep their project set up for the duration of their investigation.
Some recent A2 Investigations:
- What's in Wine?
- Analysing for Vitamin C in food and drink
- Oscillating Reactions
- Aspirin: What is the best value for money?
- Bleaches: Which is the best buy?
- The Neutralising power of Antacids
- Investigating the concentration of Lead in petrol
- Finding ways of determining the copper ion concentration in solutions
- Investigating the Harcourt-Essen reaction
Industrial
The Salters Advanced Chemistry course includes a section entitled Visiting The Chemical Industry. During the last six years we have visited a number of different Chemical plants around the Bristol area.
Chemistry Club
Chemistry Club takes place each week on tuesday afternoons when a member of the chemistry staff supervises mainly Third, Fourth and Fifth Form pupils carrying out their own experiments. Recent mini-projects have included making coloured precipitates - pupils have tried to make as many different coloured precipitates as they can and to understand the chemistry going on in preparing them.
Other pupils have investigated nitrogen triiodide - this is an interesting compound which explodes spontaneously when the smallest amount of pressure is exerted on it - clearly this makes it fascinating to investigate but you have to make sure you leave none of it behind at the end!
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