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Hope all QLD and northern NSW labbies stay safe. Take care

I froze mine and the teachers said it was okay to use.

Thanks for the quick reply. I thought it was teacher only use , just needed proof.

Hello you wonderful labbies,
I have just been asked if we can still use Borax and I can't recall if it is a yes or no chemical.
Hope you are all coping with this year.
Thanks in advance

Good luck on the next adventure and thanks for all the knowledge that you have shared. You will be missed

Welcome back everyone.
Hope you had a restful break and now ready to tackle the adventure. Enjoy

Good morning Stuart,
My element samples have just arrived. WOW they are magic and my teachers are going to be thrilled to have such a great resource available to them.
Thanks so much.

Wow , thanks for letting us know that this offer is available. It certainly will add to the resources that make teaching more fun.

Welcome back everyone. May term three be better than term two.
Hope your staff recognise the amazing work you do and treat you with the respect and consideration you deserve.

Good morning all you wonderful labbies. I have reached the end of my patience with my staff thinking they can order pracs at 9pm and expecting me to have all the equipment and chemicals ready for 1st period. I have installed the cutoff programme and now waiting for the sh@#t to hit the fan when they...

Luckily I have a colour HP printer in my prep room. Before this I had to go down two floors to the staff room and pray that my lazy staff had actually put paper in the printer and there wasn't a paper jamb. Think I was given one to shut me up.....squeaky wheel. My paper comes out of our budget but t...

Thanks for all the information relating to the plastics ban. I am a DOE school that has NOT been told about this. I brought it up to the powers that be and they totally disregarded anything I had to say. I now have decided that I won't purchase any more plastics but will use up the products I have a...

Thank you for sharing your incredible expertise.

You are a legend Bigmack. Thank you for sharing your expertise.

Welcome back. Dry for the moment but rain is coming. Hope everyone had a good break and now ready for an exciting term 3. May your staff treat you with the respect and admiration you deserve.

Hi Rosalie,
We only have cloth aprons that all students use. They get washed usually six monthly and I replace them as needed.

Hi guys, Hope your year is better than the last couple. Just a heads up with riskassess putting the wrong chemical equations on labels. It has been frantic here with assessment exams and luckily the teachers have picked up errors. From memory it was silver nitrate and sodium carbonate. Don't know of...

Good morning RosalieI, I always think it's best to go as big as you can afford and fit in your prep. room space. There always seems to be a prac that needs to be cooled down and the teachers put the experiments into the fridge, not to mention the fruit and vegetables that are bought and then need to...

Thanks for the ideas. Will run them passed the HT.

Good morning brains trust, Hope the new year is treating you all well. I have been asked to find a better way to store electrical leads. The teachers are sick of the leads being tangled and then breaking when the students try to separate them. At the moment they are put into large sandwich bags. Tha...