Lifestyle | Foodie | Family | Bryony on Instagram: "As the school year is about to suddenly end in 2 weeks as fast as it started, it's leaving me nostalgic and sad by how fast the years go. Last week he did 3 transition days for his new Secondary School and he said he's ready for the change to happen and he's ready to leave Primary School. It's true when they say you don't realise you're in the good times til you miss them. One day you're having all the firsts and the next second you're having all the lasts - the last Sports Day, the last School Disco, the last time you pick them up from school as they want to walk home, the last School Trip. My boy will be leaving Primary School to go to Secondary School in September and I'm not emotionally ready for the next chapter, for the new firsts and for the new challenges you get having a tweenager but I hope as he grows up he knows I'll always be there and while I miss what once was I'm also excited for his new growth and seeing what he will grow into - which judging by fast he's growing it won't be long til he's 6 foot!"

bryonyannie on July 8, 2025: "As the school year is about to suddenly end in 2 weeks as fast as it started, it's leaving me nostalgic and sad by how fast the years go. Last week he did 3 transition days for his new Secondary School and he said he's ready for the change to happen and he's ready to leave Primary School. It's true when they say you don't realise you're in the good times til you miss them. One day you're having all the firsts and the next second you're having all the lasts - the last Sports Day, the last School Disco, the last time you pick them up from school as they want to walk home, the last School Trip. My boy will be leaving Primary School to go to Secondary School in September and I'm not emotionally ready for the next chapter, for the new firsts and for the new challenges you get having a tweenager but I hope as he grows up he knows I'll always be there and while I miss what once was I'm also excited for his new growth and seeing what he will grow into - which judging by fast he's growing it won't be long til he's 6 foot!".

Cosmology and general relativity (GR) in upper secondary school through new targeted teaching materials: a study on student learning and motivation

Cosmology and GR remain largely inaccessible to high-school teaching due to the advanced prerequisites to master these topics. Integrating them into upper secondary teaching is a significant challenge that remains unresolved. This contribution reports on an implementation study of a GR and cosmology course for upper secondary school students as part of an educational project launched during the centenary of GR and tested ever since for several years. The course aimed to expand students' knowledge to include current physics topics while highlighting their foundations in areas of classical physics such as Newtonian mechanics, electromagnetism, and waves. Targeted teaching and learning materials are focused on conceptual and qualitative understanding, while systematically combined with a mathematical treatment accessible at the upper secondary level, avoiding oversimplification. A key element is an active learning approach, incorporating activities and tasks such as engaging applications related to current research, reflective exercises, thought experiments, and hands-on tasks. The main research objective was to explore whether a conceptually deep and educationally effective GR and cosmology course could be successfully implemented for non-specialist upper secondary students. A pre-post study assessed both conceptual learning and affective outcomes, including interest, curiosity, self-concept, and perceived relevance of science. Results showed encouraging gains in both learning and motivation, with large to very large effect sizes for conceptual learning of core principles. Additionally, no or small effects of predictors such as gender were observed. We conclude that the integration of GR and cosmology into upper secondary physics teaching, in the form of courses and materials that are engaging, comprehensible, and impactful, is feasible.

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