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Fully Qualified Private Teacher with Classroom

Welcome to Philip M Russell Ltd and experience unparalleled private education with Online and In-Person Tutoring. Fully qualified and experienced teacher. We are unlike most Tutors as we have our own classroom, laboratory and two TV Studios. All the equipment to do every science practical.

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1:1 Tuition £40 GCSE £50 A-level
Maths GCSE and A-level
Physics GCSE and A-Level
Chemistry GCSE and A-Level
Biology GCSE Maths and A-Level
Science Combined and Triple GCSE
Further Maths A-Level
Computer Studies GCSE and A-Level
Business Studies GCSE, BTEC and A-Level
A-Level Psychology and 
A-Level Sociology
Online and in-person 
Group lessons from £25 per hour in a class setting.

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1:1 Tuition

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

Daily Blog and Social Media

Read and Comment on the Blog https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/ 
Posted on ​​​​July 8, 2025

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

Posted on ​​​​July 7, 2025

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?

Posted on July 6, 2025

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

Posted on ​​​​July 5, 2025

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/

Posted on ​​​​July 4, 2025

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/

Posted on July 3, 2025

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

Posted on ​​​​July 2, 2025

 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

Posted on ​​​​July 1, 2025

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.

Posted on June 30, 2025

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.

Posted on ​​​​June 29, 2025

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

Posted on ​​​​June 28, 2025

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

Posted on June 27, 2025

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

Posted on ​​​​June 26, 2025

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/

Posted on ​​​​June 25, 2025

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

Posted on June 24, 2025

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/

Posted on ​​​​June 23, 2025

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/

Posted on ​​​​June 22, 2025

A Level Psychology: Animal Attachment — Ducklings imprint on the first moving thing they see after hatching… and follow it everywhere! https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/

Posted on June 20, 2025

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/

Posted on ​​​​June 19, 2025

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

Posted on ​​​​June 18, 2025

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.

Posted on June 17, 2025

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.

Posted on ​​​​June 16, 2025

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

Posted on ​​​​June 14, 2025

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

Posted on June 13, 2025

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.

Posted on ​​​​June 12, 2025

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.

Posted on ​​​​June 11, 2025

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.

Posted on June 10, 2025

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