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.
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
Attempting to connect the Beaverlabtech Digital Microscope to the computer. This will enable students to gain a clearer view of the microscope samples. As yet, connecting to the PC is proving difficult.
A Level Computing: Using Karnaugh maps to simplify Boolean expressions?It’s like tidying your logic—group the 1s, spot the patterns, and shrink those equations down!
Cleaner circuits, faster decisions, fewer gates. #LogicDesign #KarnaughMap #DigitalElectronics
Looking at the thermal decomposition of Calcium Carbonate. A Limestone Chip was weighed and then heated very strongly until the entire piece was glowing. It was held in place in a wire basket. When cool, it was weighed again and we found it had lost a small amount of weight.
Student experiment chaos? No problem. With @pascoscientific Capstone, you can untangle the muddle—view graphs separately or together, rescale for clarity, and rearrange for easy comparisons. Insight from confusion = learning achieved.
Maths meets Mechanics: Two masses over a pulley, connected by a light, inextensible string. We calculate string tension, then test it with a spring balance. Theory vs reality—Physics in action! #Mechanics #PhysicsFun
Exploring wire ring resonance: after the wire snapped, we lost a few centimetres—but the same vibration patterns reappeared at new frequencies. Now predicting the new resonant points based on the lower original ones!
GCSE Biology: How are animals adapted to their environment? This insect has a long mouth part so that it can drink the nectar found in plants. The insect has many other adaptations, such as its feet, to hold onto surfaces that appear smooth.
A level Sociology - Religion and Social Change Martin Luther King Jr I have a dream speech ends with Free at last! Free at Last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at Last! August 28, 1963. Racial and injustice in the USA compared to the UK
The Ribbon Bands in Microsoft 365 provide an indication of the amount of reusable code used across all their applications. Reusable code is a good idea since routines only have to be written once for many applications and once working can be left alone.
Not really Chemistry, but learning to heat glass tubing and bend it to make delivery tubes for an experiment.
An Interferometer setup using a @pascoscientific wire sound sensor to record the data. Sound from a loudspeaker connected to a signal generator is fed into the interferometer. The sound then travels in both directions around the tube to the Pasco sound sensor. The length of one of the paths is then changed, and the signal is analysed
Rather than chromatography of coloured pens, it is a bit more exciting to see if the green extract of plant leaves is a single substance. Collecting leaves, grinding them up, and then running the Chromatogram in Petroleum Ether introduces solvents other than water.
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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