Experience the best teaching from a qualified and experienced teacher with top-notch facilities for 1:1 teaching in a classroom and laboratory. Our teaching aids include visualisers, smartboards, and all the experiments for GCSE and A Level to aid understanding. We take electronic notes for students and send them straight to their phones so they have PDF notes for each session. Additionally, we have a vast electronic resource of hundreds of exam papers, including many not normally available to students. We offer both in-person and online teaching options from our TV studio, making learning accessible and convenient for all.
Unlocking the Secrets of Science:
How Our Fully Equipped Laboratory Enhances Learning
1 hour per week - up to 10 students online. Covering the whole syllabus in a year
Mondays Chemistry GSCE
Tuesdays Physics GCSE
Wednesdays Biology GCSE
Thursdays Maths GCSE
6:30-7:30pm
£25 per session per student per week
From one of our TV Studios, we can take you through the whole syllabus with demos, exercises and exam practice.
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Philip M Russell BSc. PGCE, MCCT, MInstP.
With over 40 years of teaching experience, I am a qualified and experienced Chartered Teacher. Throughout my career, I have taught in 11-18 schools, served as a Head of Department for over 50 staff, worked in FE colleges for 16 years, and been a University Lecturer at two Universities. Beyond teaching, I am also a Film Maker, Broadcaster, and Presenter. I run my own weekly Climate Podcast and host an extensive Science YouTube Channel. Despite my diverse interests, my passion remains rooted in science and education.
In my spare time I am learning to sail
Students like and students need face to face contact. They need someone with years of professional experience, to teach them in the best possible way to allow them to achieve their full potential. By doing experiments and carrying out investigations strong memory bonds are formed which helps boost the grades.
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The grass is greener… when you code your garden to water itself. We make a small project to use a water sensor to feedback and open a valve to water the garden. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/hacking-summer-how-to-build-smart.html
That red firework? It’s strontium. Chemistry makes it sparkle. Today we look at teaching the chemistry of fireworks. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-chemistry-of-fireworks-colours.html
Tracking Light Levels – Are Your Sunglasses Really Working? This summer, let’s bring physics outdoors and put sunglasses to the test — using a @pascoscientific wireless light sensor. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/tracking-light-levels-are-your.html
Rolling two dice? You’re deep in probability territory. From Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, from Risk to Cluedo – board games may seem like simple fun, but hiding behind every move is a world of mathematics. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-maths-behind-board-games.html
Roller Coaster Physics – Acceleration, G-Forces and Energy Transfer. Every twist and turn is physics in motion. Can you plot the G-forces? https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/roller-coaster-physics-acceleration-g.html
Plants are still working while you're relaxing. Try this bubble-counting experiment. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/photosynthesis-in-action-measuring.html
Why did summer pass in a flash? Your brain has some explaining to do. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-holidays-feel-so-short.html
Summer = time to tinker. Let’s go back to BASIC Retro Coding: Build a ZX Spectrum Game Clone https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/retro-coding-build-zx-spectrum-game.html
Behind every sizzling sausage is some serious exothermic chemistry. The secret is in the Maillard Reaction, when amino acids react with sugars when heated above 140°C. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/08/barbecue-chemistry-science-of-charcoal.html
There’s nothing quite like a gentle summer breeze — it cools the skin, rustles the trees, and sends sails fluttering down by the river. But have you ever stopped to wonder: how fast is that breeze? Or how it changes throughout the day? https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-summer-breeze.html
How to Win at Mini Golf – The Maths Behind Angles and Friction. Mini golf is 90% fun, 10% trigonometry. Use maths to improve your game. Because every bounce, bank shot, and hole-in-one is shaped by angles, vectors, and friction. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-to-win-at-mini-golf.html
Turn sunshine into a timekeeper. Build your own sundial with just a stick and some physics. Explore astronomy, geometry, and history in one experiment. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/07/sun-shadows-and-time-build-simple.html
Bees, butterflies, hoverflies… each with a mission. Can you ID them? Read all about the Pollinator Parade in my Blog
Air: the final frontier? More like the first!
Pollen, spores, fibres, and mystery fluff—air is full of life if you know where to look.
One dust bunny = one science adventure. #MicroscopeMadness #HiddenWorld #PollenWatch
Business Studies: How Ice Cream Vans Master Marketing (and Location Strategy). Want to understand business strategy? Follow an ice cream van. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/07/business-studies-how-ice-cream-vans.html
Day 6 – Hair, Fur, and Fibres What’s That Strand? A Microscopic Tour of Hair and Fibres
Collect:
Human hair (different colours, thickness)
Pet fur (dog, cat, rabbit if possible)
Wool, cotton, polyester threads
Compare natural vs synthetic fibres, and zoom in on split ends and dye penetration.
No homework? Perfect time to code your own summer-themed text adventure. Read the Blog lots of Code given to get you started in Python. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/07/summer-themed-text-adventure.html
Day 5 – Crystals in the Kitchen The Crystal World – From Sugar to Salt Under the Microscope Take a peek at:
Salt crystals (table salt vs rock salt)
Sugar (white, brown, icing)
Epsom salts or citric acid (used in bath bombs)
Coffee, cocoa, or spices
Bonus: Dissolve and recrystallise sugar or salt and examine the new shapes.
Summer is the season of sunshine, swimming pools… and ice cream. But while most people are busy enjoying the sweet, creamy results, we’re digging into what’s really going on inside that cone GCSE and A-Level Chemistry Read the Blog
If you find a feather in the garden or park (or have one from a pet bird), examine:
The interlocking barbs and barbules
Pigment patterns
Fluff vs flight feather structure
Damage from parasites
More details in the Blog
How hot is the soil vs the air? Time to take the @pascoscientific wireless temperature sensors for a summer stroll.
Leaf Life: What’s Crawling on Your Salad? A Forest in a Leaf – Exploring Leaf Surfaces and Tiny Hitchhikers. Look at both sides of fresh and old leaves. Under the microscope, you’ll see:
Stomata (tiny pores for gas exchange)
Leaf hairs (trichomes) Read more on the Blog
Planning a road trip? Maths is your secret co-pilot. Distances, fuel cost, speed – it’s all numbers. Here are 5 real-life maths problems hidden in your holiday—and why solving them makes maths not just useful, but fun. Find them on my Blog
You’ve Got Yourself a New Microscope – What Next? Read about what to find and look at in the garden in the next blog
Physics is everywhere — even in your holiday paddling pool. Buoyancy, anyone? Why Do We Float? Exploring Archimedes in the Swimming Pool https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Ever wondered what pond water looks like under the microscope? Spoiler: it’s a jungle in there. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
A-Level Sociology:
Modernity = Industry, science, progress, fixed identities.
Postmodernity = Media, globalisation, choice, fluid identities.
From steam engines to selfies — society’s changed, and so has how we study it.
#Sociology #Modernity #Postmodernity
The tech landscape is undergoing its biggest shift in decades. AI isn’t just coming—it’s here. From how we search, create, game, and communicate, to how we stay organized, AI is reshaping it all. This is just the beginning. Is your PC AI Ready? #AIRevolution
From Bromobutane to Butanoic Acid — a classic two-stage synthesis using full Quickfit glassware. The kind of chemistry setup that looks straight out of the movies.
Testing conductivity with the @pascoscientific Wireless Conductivity Sensor
From distilled water to saturated copper sulfate — see how ion concentration changes conductivity in real-time.
Science that’s smart, fast, and wireless! #STEM #ScienceLab
A-Level Maths: Differentiating sin(x) & cos(x) from first principles needs more than formulas — it’s about limits, trig identities, and clever algebra. But tan(x)? That’s a whole new beast – messy quotients and asymptotes! #alevelmaths #differentiation #maths
Using the @Lascells Microwave transmitter and receiver to demonstrate how the waves that come out of the transmitter are polarised, so only one polarising filter is necessary to cut out the beam to the receiver.
A-level Biology: The Peacock butterfly (Aglais io) shows brilliant eyespots — a classic example of anti-predator adaptation. These eyespots mimic the eyes of larger animals to deter birds and other predators. Evolution in action on a Buddleia! #ALevelBiology #Adaptations Read More in the Blog
Reductionism vs Holism – Do we understand behaviour better by breaking it down into parts (reductionism) or by looking at the whole picture, including social and cultural context (holism)? Both have value—but which explains us best? #ALevelPsychology #HolismVsReductionism
Given some tile texture, create a passageway, a left turn, a right turn a t-junction, a door and a dead end. Now use your text based adventure and turn it into a graphical one so that the user can walk around a dungeon. AND IT WORKS!
Using the Hofmann Voltameter, we electrolysed water and saw it split into gases — twice as much hydrogen as oxygen. Simple ratio, clear results! We then tested the gases to confirm: hydrogen pops, oxygen relights a glowing splint. Classic electrolysis in action!
Does the mass at the end of a pendulum affect its period? Many think it must—but it doesn’t. Using the @pascoscientific metre stick and rotary sensor, we see it’s all about length, not mass. So why no effect? Simple physics: mass cancels out in the equations. Read more about this in the blog https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Not sure why some maths teachers dislike graphics calculators. With a Casio, students see why sin(30°) = sin(150°) — it's where the line crosses the sine curve. Suddenly, it clicks. Visual learning matters.
One of the simplest yet trickiest tools in physics: the diffraction grating hand spectroscope. Getting students to read the spectral lines and measure wavelengths opens the door to understanding how we identify elements in stars—by their light. Read more in the blog
Should a garden be neat and tidy. A clipped lawn and pretty plants planted evenly, or should we let the weeds and wildflowers also grow to attract more insects and increase the biodiversity in the gardens? Is there room for both, as we see many farms now having wilding?
A level Business: All companies work on a positive cash flow Profit is great, but cash is king! All companies need positive cash flow to survive — it's the money flowing in that pays the bills, not just the profit on paper. #ALevelBusiness #CashFlow
Large 4m x 8m Classroom.
65 inch Interactive Screen
Full Laboratory - fully equipped
Large Desks
Fully distanced 2-3m
Hand washing Station.
Access to the classroom is not through the house
Distanced waiting area
Heated
