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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Math GCSE and A level Math and Further Mathematics
Biology GCSE and A Level
Chemistry GCSE and A Level
Physics GCSE and A Level
Computer Studies GCSE and A Level
Business Studies GCSE, BTEC and A-Level
A-Level Psychology and A-Level Sociology
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Computing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology,
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.
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
A-level Computing: learning how to create our own adventure game - creating a map of the rooms and creating our own language parser, using Zork as a model. Learning about writing the descriptions of what you see so the player can visualise the scenario. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Teaching how a fuel cell works? It’s like a battery with a refill! Hydrogen in, oxygen in—electricity out, with only water as waste. A clean, quiet chemistry lesson in real-time. #FuelCell #CleanEnergy #ScienceEducation Read more in the Blog https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Sound isn’t on many GCSE specs, but it’s a powerful way to teach science. With the @pascoscientific wireless sound sensor, students can explore sound laws in seconds—making abstract concepts click. Read the full article
Using LEGO to explore sine waves! As the circle rotates, a pen moves up & down—creating a sine or cosine curve when paired with horizontal motion. A perfect way to see why radians (not degrees) are the natural language of circles. #Maths #STEM #LEGO #SineWave #Radians
Setting up the Microwave transmitter and receiver, and an oscilloscope for an online lesson. We were experiencing issues with Zoom automatically muting the sound from the receiver, so we needed to find a workaround to ensure the students could hear what was happening.
Many teachers only bring out the microscope for the 'microscope lesson'. We use it regularly—linking biology topics to the actual histology of the organism. In this way students learn more effectively and have a good understanding of Biology in Context.
A Level Sociology: What is hegemony?It’s power by consent, not force.
Gramsci said the ruling class controls us by shaping our ideas, not just our laws.
We think we're choosing freely — but are we really? Read the Blog
#ALevelSociology #Gramsci #Hegemony #SociologyThoughts
A Level Computing: Before Zork, there was Adventureland. Scott Adams' early text games weren’t just fun—they taught us data abstraction: rooms, objects, and commands as structured data. A masterclass in making big worlds fit in 16KB. #RetroGaming #GameDev #InteractiveFiction
With all titrations, it’s not just about the swirling and colour change — the real skill lies in the calculations. Learn to titrate and calculate the unknown concentration like a pro. #Chemistry #TitrationSkills Read the Blog
Online wave demo using the @pascoscientific motion sensor, here protected in a cage in case the weights fall. Linked to Capstone, the students get an immediate readout as if they were in the room recording the data themselves. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Math is all about practice. The more problems you solve, the more patterns you spot—until recognising what to do becomes second nature. Read more in the blog
One challenge of online tuition is showing experiments clearly—like light polarisation. By positioning a visualiser just right, the effect becomes visible on screen and the learning goal is achieved. Read the Blog https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Spotted this Common Blue Damselfly resting on the boat by the River Thames — a delicate flash of electric blue, perfectly still above the ripples. #WildlifeOnTheWater #RiverThames #Damselfly #NatureWatch Read more in the blog https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
A Level Psychology: Animal Attachment — Ducklings imprint on the first moving thing they see after hatching… and follow it everywhere! https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Making Copper - from ore to metal - involves taking some malachite, grinding it up, and then reacting it with acid to produce copper sulfate. Most of the impurities are removed, and then the copper is recovered by electrolysis to create copper metal. Read more in the Blog https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/
Probably one of my favourite @pascoscientific tools the ball launcher on the smartcart. It's real science getting the students to predict whether the ball will fall into the catcher when it is moving and working out why. Read the Blog for more
The Casio CG50 and its newer version, the CG100, make light work of working out distributions. The calculator provides a clear representation of what the distribution the student is investigating leads to, fostering a better understanding of the statistics.
Coulomb's law experiments can be very expensive to purchase, but with a bit of ingenuity, the same results can be obtained at a fraction of the cost. Here, I used expanded polystyrene balls and a digital coulomb meter to measure the charge.
Just spotted this little visitor on my kit on the River Thames – a caddisfly! With its long antennae and tented wings, it's a sign of healthy river life. Its larvae build underwater homes from sand and twigs. Nature's tiny architect! #RiverWildlife #Caddisfly #NatureNerd
Data abstraction in A-Level Computing? Think of the London Tube map — it hides real distances & geography, focusing only on what matters: stations & connections. That’s abstraction — removing details to make complex systems easier to understand. #ALevelComputing #EdTech
Learning how to do titrations. Allowing students to repeat the experiments multiple times helps them develop the skills necessary to perform titrations accurately. Titrating is a skill that many students need to practice repeatedly to acquire the ability to do it accurately and with precision.
Using the @pascoscientific smartcart with the motorised fan to explore how the angle of the force can affect the forward velocity, and comparing this to the mathematical model, to see if there is a correlation. It was spot on.
A throwback to some of my earliest teaching days when students had the Sinclair Oxford 300 calculator (1976). We still have one that works, with its red LED. I had a Casio LED calculator which is still functioning with all its features.
Teaching physics with a plasma ball is pure magic! It’s a brilliant way to spark curiosity about electric fields, ionisation, and how charged particles move. Students feel the science — literally! #PhysicsTeaching #STEMeducation #PlasmaBallScience
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
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