Faculty Head of Science @ OLHS Motherwell 🧪👩🏻🏫 Teacher of Biology and Science 🧬 🦠🔬
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined March 2024
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Today we hosted Prof Martin Hendry, who visited us @OLHSMotherwell to give a great lecture on Our Dynamic Universe to our H Physics pupils and visitors from other schools! Thank you for coming @braidhurst @OLHSCumbernauld @ClydeValleyHS @TaylorHS1982 @DalzielHigh @CoatbridgeHS
DNA > mRNA > amino acids > proteins 🤓🧬 making protein bead bracelets to show our learning of this process! @OLHSMotherwell @OLHSScience
Today 4G carried out an experiment to prove that the enzyme amylase is responsible for the degradation of starch into maltose 🤓🧪👩🏻🔬 #enzymeaction @OLHSMotherwell
Extracting DNA from strawberries with S3! 🧬🍓Steady hands required for the last step!! 🧪👩🏼🔬@OLHSMotherwell
L6 Criminologists are dusting for prints this morning! What makes the best fingerprint impression? How do we lift them? #CSI #ForensicScience @OLHSMotherwell 🧬 🕵️♂️
A busy day so far at the latest @EducationScot round of the #SciencesCIC - lots of good discussion and networking! 🧬
A lovely morning spent at @BernadettesPS judging the cluster KNEX challenge final! Well done to all the finalists who took part from St Bernadette’s, Cathedral PS and @StBrendansPS 🚲🧠🏗️⏱️ #STEM @OLHSScience @OLHSMotherwell
Our lovely Higher scientists attended the Cancer Research UK Institute tonight, and got to experience talks on the work going on, hands on demonstrations and a tour of the fascinating work happening there! Very interesting work!! 🔬🧬🧫 @OLHSScience @OLHSMotherwell
Today 2P5 have a simple question to answer: Can a lemon power a light bulb? 🍋 The class are carrying out an investigation and will make a scientific poster to show their results, choosing gold, silver or bronze difficulty level. 📝 @OLHSMotherwell @OLHSScience
Oh no!! Dr Basil Greenfield has been murdered!!! Can the L6 Criminologists put all of their learning into practice and solve the crime??? Stay tuned to find out! @OLHSMotherwell @OLHSScience @OLHSSocSubjects 💀🚨🥸
L6 Criminologists carrying out soil analysis today - looking at the colour, texture and pH of soil samples. Using our pH probe to get an accurate pH reading and using our digital microscope to get detailed pictures of soil colour and texture! @OLHSMotherwell @OLHSScience 🔬🌎📊
Miss Aitken retweeted
Work has now begun on the Curriculum Improvement Cycle.
As part of our commitment to keeping you updated on the progress being made we’ve today published a discussion paper with findings from the pilot curriculum reviews.
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Some very interesting work and discussion happening at the Education Scotland CIC event today! @EducationScot #educationscotlandCIC
Somewhat stinky work for the OLHS L6 Criminologists this morning! Urine sample testing and analysis 🧻🔬 @OLHSMotherwell @OLHSMScience @OLHSSocSubjects
S3 Biologists have done an amazing job of capturing plant cells under the microscope today in class! 🌱🪴#InvestigatingCells #PlantCell #CellStructure @OLHSMotherwell @OLHSScience
Happy International Women’s Day!
Strong women: May we know them, may we teach them, may we BE them 👩🏻🏫👩🏻🤝👩🏼
I have been lucky to work with many amazing women in my career - shoutout to some of the most inspiring! @MissDornanBio @MissAliChem @ClaireDunn01 @MissSnedTweets 👩🏻🤝👩🏼🧬🦠🔬
Miss Aitken retweeted
White blood cell wandering between red blood cells and checking for harmful organisms
Got completely locked out of my old teaching twitter account so had to start all over again! Might be a bit better at updating this one 🤣💬
Time to head off to pastures new! I will miss my lovely team and all of the young people very much. Thank you to everyone for the lovely cards, gifts and well wishes! 🎁 ♥️🍾
The Biology department are very sad that Miss Aitken has Grinch walked out the building one final time! 🥲 She will be very sadly missed! 💙💛 @StMungosAcademy @StMungoScience