I have worked as a professional sailor, oceanographer and now teach science and physics at an academic private school on the beautiful island of Bermuda.
Whilst I have always had an interest in science and a fascination in how things work, it has really been since I have started to teach science that I see just how much science really underlies all that we do and experience. Whether it is looking at thunderclouds forming on the horizon and preparing for a storm, cycling, sailing, cooking or even listening to music - science really is everywhere!
Whilst I have always had an interest in science and a fascination in how things work, it has really been since I have started to teach science that I see just how much science really underlies all that we do and experience. Whether it is looking at thunderclouds forming on the horizon and preparing for a storm, cycling, sailing, cooking or even listening to music - science really is everywhere!
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Paul Wright email: paul@islandphysics.com
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Education:
MSc (Dist) - Applied Meteorology (University of Reading) PGCE - Science and Physics (King's College, London) BSc (Hons) - Physics with Mathematics (University of Sussex) |
This website started out as a resource for my students which was designed to replace the school's BlackBoard site. It is not a commercial enterprise. If you wish me to include a link or such like, please contact me. Please note that I will not include websites or links that require a student to pay a fee or that have an excessive amount of adverts.
Caveat
Advertising is generally detrimental to educational usage of the internet, so several years ago I installed an ad-blocker. It has greatly enhanced the online experience. Subsequently, it has been brought to my attention that an unintended side-effect of this is that I don't know how many links that I have used on this website are ad-heavy. Hopefully, as they are sciency in nature, not too many. If any links are particularly intrusive or in any way inappropriate please let me know and I will remove them.
Caveat
Advertising is generally detrimental to educational usage of the internet, so several years ago I installed an ad-blocker. It has greatly enhanced the online experience. Subsequently, it has been brought to my attention that an unintended side-effect of this is that I don't know how many links that I have used on this website are ad-heavy. Hopefully, as they are sciency in nature, not too many. If any links are particularly intrusive or in any way inappropriate please let me know and I will remove them.
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Where is Bermuda?! (Image from BerMemes)
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Saltus Grammar School, Bermuda
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Video made by my extremely talented friend, Adrian, that shows a good idea of life in Bermuda!
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Acknowledgements:
Images: these are mostly either photos taken by students, friends or personally. A couple of fantastic images (notably both of the AP Physics course pages) have been purchased and licensed from local photographer Adrian Cunningham. You can find his work at www.ballyknock.photo. Other images have been taken from freely-available sources such as Google Images. Please contact me in case of any inadvertent copyright issues, and they will be immediately rectified. Clicking on most of the internet sourced images should take you to the original page.
Images: these are mostly either photos taken by students, friends or personally. A couple of fantastic images (notably both of the AP Physics course pages) have been purchased and licensed from local photographer Adrian Cunningham. You can find his work at www.ballyknock.photo. Other images have been taken from freely-available sources such as Google Images. Please contact me in case of any inadvertent copyright issues, and they will be immediately rectified. Clicking on most of the internet sourced images should take you to the original page.