Happy 189th birthday to Dmitri Mendeleev, who formulated the Periodic Law and created a version of the periodic table of elements. To celebrate this anniversary, follow us on a whistle-stop tour of the 10 elements discovered or isolated here at the Ri!

The Stamford School team enjoying the lab challenge at the Top of the Bench competition at the University of Derby last Saturday!

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

Last-minute H432/02 revision session! Don’t panic folks! Good luck tomorrow (and read the question!)

Top of the Bench online test in progress - lots of thinking going on! 🧐 @RSCEastMidlands

A great info sheet from @compoundchem about fireworks and how they make their sounds. Some good links to physics here as well as chemistry.

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

Even Nobel Prize medals aren’t what they used to be! 😥

Thank you to the pupil helpers at Open Day yesterday. Here are some of them looking (mostly) happy!

#OnThisDay in 1803, John Dalton FRS used symbols to represent the atoms of elements in a notebook entry entitled "Observations on the Ultimate Particles of Bodies and their Combinations." This was the first use of symbols to represent the modern elements: https://t.co/ymMMhJV8EZ

Chemistry protects!

More escape fun, and some happy winners! #ssenrichmentweek

Further escape attempts… #ssenrichmentweek

Year 9 today attempting their escape from the ‘fiendish’ Chemistry Escape Room today! #ssenrichmentweek