Advanced Higher Computing

If you are looking for help with the Advanced Higher Computing course then you have come to the right place. Not the final place ... but the penultimate step in your journey. Check out cmcalpine.moonfruit.com for all your needs! As always, mistakes are intentional (although hopefully there are few) and if I can help you any more then email me @ cmcalpine@hamilton.s-lanark.sch.uk Contains Advanced Higher Computing Notes Revision Past Paper Questions and Answers Revision Videos Revision Quizzes and many other sad things I have created when I should be out enjoying the immense weather ...

National 4 & 5 Computing Science

Looking for some information, notes and revision help. Look no further! ... well, a little further check out cmcalpine.moonfruit.com

Tutoring

If you or anyone you know if looking for tutoring for all levels
Standard Grade, Higher and Intermediate 2 Computing then give me a mail at

cmcalpine@hamilton.s-lanark.sch.uk

The Skinny!

Whats been happening? Well I'm fighting on all fronts at the minute - developing CfE activities for next year and reversioning old materials to make them more suitable "new and improved flavour"

Also participating in an online course through Harvard University which the school asked me to complete called Teaching For Understanding - apparently a 35 hours course, but nearing that mark already after half of it!!

Been working hard in school working with Guidance, several committees and recently undertook the chair of the fundraising committee which should hopefully prove to be a rewarding and fun filled experience - on that note, any successful school fund ideas or suggestions please let me know!

That piled on top of the general hectic life of teaching in school has tied up most of my time - as well as balancing a near perfect golf game and a diet of playing football and watching football leaves me very little time to pursure my other interests in crisps and ginger.

I am bugging the Music Department for an old Keyboard as I have a life mission to be able to play Tiny Dancer by Elton John - ok not so much a life ambition, probably since starting my kazoo band with my good friend Andy at uni! ...

"2 Kazoos and a Dug" mostly a top gun cover band though ...

Wilkommen!

Well ... it's a tragedy, but after a quick 7 or so weeks of doing what you wanted, getting up when you wanted and generally doing zero ironing we are back!

Hitting the ground running! Meeting all our new pupils and getting to know our new classes!

I have to say, our young people look fantastic. Our new uniform, in particular the blazer looks fantastic and the boys and girls are wearing it well. I am actually jealous of the dazzle of the blazer and even more so of the tartan skirts! I think I will be starting a campaign to have an enforced staff uniform consisting of the same ... perhaps not the skirt, but definitely tartan trooosers!!!!!

Welcome back for another great year!

Another year gone!

Well folks, I have two days left until I embark on the voyage where no Computing teacher has gone before, a foreign trip as guest with the Geography Department ... awesome!

Where has the year gone! The Senior Hallowe'en disco, the Christmas Disco's, The Inspection, Crazy Snow, Easter, Exam and Study leave, the prom ... woosh!

Three years down! How many more to go!


Mr. McAlpine
2009 Prom S6 Teacher of the Year
(Trumps my grass bowls trophy from Bellshill Bowling Club!)

Announcing

Ok guys, not long until the S4 sit their big jangly nerve nail biting final exam and our third years sit their third year exam.

To allow you to study at home (and you punks who keep losing all my print outs)

I have uploaded some revision documents which can be found here

@ http://standardgradedocs.blogspot.com/