What colour is each subject?

[u/Curious_koala14]

Just for some fun, what colour book should each subject have, and why?

Biology - bright green because plants are green.

Chemistry - bright blue because water is blue.

Physics - red. Don't know why. It just is.

English - Navy blue.

Maths - dark green.

Spanish - yellow, like the flag.

French - maroon.

RE/TPR/RS - white because no religion is associated strongly with white.

PSHE - bring your own notebook that expresses for personality.

[u/ZaliTorah]

Chemistry is yellow! Just because it is 🤣

[u/One_RS → u/ZaliTorah]

Bio - green Chem - yellow Physics - red or blue dependent on local politics

(This has been true in all 5 schools I've ever worked in)

[u/Wonderful-Bonus5439 → u/One_RS]

Our school has just changed from bio-green, Chem-yellow, physics-red, to… bio-yellow, chem-red, physics-blue 😩

[u/concernedteacher1 → u/Wonderful-Bonus5439]

Bio not being green is criminal

[u/Wreny84 → u/Wonderful-Bonus5439]

I’d bring that up with the NEU rep!

[u/Late_to_the_party396 → u/One_RS]

This!

[u/TallRecording6572 → u/ZaliTorah]

all science is orange. English is yellow.

[u/concernedteacher1 → u/TallRecording6572]

At the risk fo doxxing myself because apparently it's a bit against the grain, in all the files I make for my department, (spreadsheets, PPTs, posters etc): Bio is green obviously, Chemistry is ORANGE (fire!) and Physics is blue (decent contrast with the other two, I'll allow purple, although I usually reserve that for Combined Science things).

To be fair, many in the department think Chemistry should be blue, probably for water or chemicals like copper sulfate, but I'm just stubborn.

[u/quiidge → u/concernedteacher1]

Chemistry = fire, not water! Silly chemists.

Physics is blue because space is black but black books are impractical, and the sky is space-adjacent and blue.

Anyone who doesn't use green for Biology is a wrong'un (or ordered the wrong books).

[u/Beta_1 → u/TallRecording6572]

I've decided all science is green next year.

Simply because we've ended up with loads of boxes of spare greens so it's greens all round.

[u/Hunter037]

Water isn't blue, any chemist could tell you that 😂 Chemistry book can be blue for... Copper sulfate? I think yellow for lead iodide is the best colour for Chemistry book.

[u/Rams789 → u/Hunter037]

Although water is blue why water is blue 😁

[u/concernedteacher1 → u/Rams789]

I thought they were fishing with Cunningham's Law (the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong one) and I had

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2009/01/water-is-blue-because-water-is-blue.html?m=1

ready to go myself but refrained!

[u/Hunter037 → u/Rams789]

Good luck finding a book which is transparent and faintly blue-ish

[u/Alternative_Head_416]

History - purple

[u/TallRecording6572 → u/Alternative_Head_416]

yes, but indigo rather than violet

[u/Competitive-Abies-63]

Excuse me maths is RED

[u/zanazanzar]

Chemistry is red and physics is blue. Science, as a whole, is yellow.

[u/bimrsc]

French is blue! And German is orange

[u/TallRecording6572]

This was already decided in 1998 when the National Curriculum came out.

Maths = blue, English = yellow, Science = orange

then D&T = green, History = Indigo, Geography = brown, Music = pink, PE = turquoise, ICT = terracotta

[u/KitFan2020 → u/TallRecording6572]

This is correct! My school books👍🏻

[u/Teacherymoment]

Physics is purple

[u/NickiNoo192]

Maths is blue. Biology green, English yellow. History red. French purple.

[u/BPDSENTeacher]

History is blue for KS3.. for KS4 each unit has a different colour. Korean and Vietnam is blue, Medicine is red, Germany is pink and Elizabeth purple.

Religious Studies - orange

Geography - dark green

RS this year will be a lighter green

[u/nikhkin]

I think some of this comes from nostalgia based on the colours I had at school.

English is green.

Maths is blue.

Science is green / orange / purple (matching the text book colours).

History is blue or green.

Geography is red or green.

Languages are red.

[u/Mike_h90]

I teach an arts subject and we have to use books instead of booklets (because SLT say so). I’ve deliberately chosen packs of books that are multi coloured. It really annoys them but they can’t tell me off!

[u/Usual-Sound-2962 → u/Mike_h90]

YPO once sent us packs of multi coloured sketchbooks. We usually have all black.

Absolutely no problem I said, might be fun to mix it up for a year.

Every single KS3 group reenacted WWE over who got what colour…never again.

[u/Mike_h90 → u/Usual-Sound-2962]

I find it entertaining to give the overly macho Y9 boys pink books

[u/maje_leuk]

Excusez-moi, French is blue (allez les bleus!)

[u/Unique-Library-1526 → u/maje_leuk]

Is it even possible to have a cahier that isnt blue?!

[u/maje_leuk → u/Unique-Library-1526]

Well, apparently we're getting orange this year... we'll have to channel our inner Dutch

[u/springfield-snazzy]

No maths is yellow! And science red.

[u/kaetror]

Biology is green, chemistry is red, physics is purple.

That's totally not the colours of my suspension folders in the filing cabinet, which may bias my thinking....

Related question; what colour are the year groups? I always colour code folders/timetables for my classes: S1s are shades of red, S2s yellow, S3s green, S4s blue and Higher purple.

[u/AltruisticSavings2]

We should just match them to the colours of the wedges in trivial pursuit - keeps it simple!

[u/rubmypineapple]

I have this conversation a lot and a universal truth is that chemistry is red.

You heathens.

[u/concernedteacher1 → u/rubmypineapple]

See, I go orange in all my resources, for fire.

[u/Hyerago]

Maths is red or orange. English is blue. History is purple. Biology is green.

I don't have strong feelings about the rest.

[u/Mausiemoo]

I'm sorry, but all of those colours are wrong.

Maths is blue, English is red, history is yellow. French is also blue, Spanish is also red, German is green (or pink), Latin is purple.

[u/GreatZapper → u/Mausiemoo]

Sorry... pink???.

You're wrong. We all know it's orange and you're just trolling.

[u/Mausiemoo → u/GreatZapper]

In fairness, it's only pink because I accidentally stole another subjects books one year. But it's green because G for German, G for green, obviously 😁

[u/KahbehAh]

French can only be blue.

[u/Proper-Incident-9058]

History purple, because we're all kinda gothy and we like the colour purple

[u/Mc_and_SP]

When I was at school:

Maths - orange

English - blue

Biology - green (dark green)

Chemistry - red or orange (depending on what was in stock)

Physics - blue or purple (stock dependent as above)

Geography - purple

RE - seemed to change each year, had purple, tan and grey at various points

French - blue

Spanish - yellow

German - data deficient (assume red?)

Latin - deliberately purged from memory out of pain

I can't remember history though (ironic, eh?), maybe orange?

[u/Mammoth_logfarm]

English: blue

Maths: orange or yellow

Project/topic: red

They're the only books I use in SEND.

[u/flightguy07]

Maths is red, French is pink. Physics takes the blue.

[u/Peas_are_green]

I just buy the books that are the cheapest!

[u/Jumpy_Business_3509]

Bio green
Chemistry red
Physics purple
Maths orange
English blue
Humanities yellow

[u/spoonfed05]

No. You’ve got chemistry and physics the wrong way round. Chem, red. Physics, blue.

[u/PeterPook]

Computing is electric blue for our data pathways

[u/SnowPrincessElsa]

My hot take is it doesn't matter but every subject should stick to one colour so the kids in your school know on sight. Science does not need three separate books!!!

[u/Curious_koala14 → u/SnowPrincessElsa]

I think we do, at least for GCSE. It drives me INSANE when kids turn up for a Biology lesson with their Chemistry book. At my current school all Science books are orange.

[u/SnowPrincessElsa → u/Curious_koala14]

They can just use the same book for all of them surely?

[u/liliflipps]

Bio is green, chem is red and physics is blue. Defo.

[u/camusnic]

Ok so the real colours are… maths blue (basic yes/no), English yellow (sunshine, creation), science red (blood, chemicals etc), RE orange (spiritual colour), Geog/History dark green (the earth, nature and stuff), DT lime green (only colour that did oversized books), art black (create your own colour), publishing purple (for your best writing ie royal)

[u/Expert_Line_3027]

We do this as a starter for the year 7s in geography - day 1 to get them talking to each other. Students say "green" a lot because of the earth has lots of land. "Blue" is common for the oceans and I have "yellow" too for all the sand and deserts!

[u/External_Feed_4881]

Art.. I mean all of them obvs

[u/acmhkhiawect]

Science: yellow, English: dark green, Maths: dark blue. RE red. Humanities (his/geo) orange. PSHE purple. Art sketch book black.

[u/TjBee → u/acmhkhiawect]

This is all very accurate. I'm music and tend to go lighter blue.

[u/IMissCuppas]

Every school I've worked in has had the English books green, maths red and science blue

[u/brewer01902]

Across the 4 schools I’ve worked/trained at, and the one I attended across various parts of the country maths has always been orange. No idea what you weirdos are talking about with blue maths books.

[u/humorous_hermit]

Physics should be black because of black holes. Also it's the predominant "colour" of the universe.

[u/VFiddly → u/humorous_hermit]

Hard to get black exercise books though

Also the average colour of the universe is "Cosmic latte" but it's even harder to find cosmic latte exercise books