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.
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Your maths exam will be coming to your exam room tomorrow, so remember the pen, pencil, compass, protractor, ruler, and eraser. And it might just be worthwhile doing a past paper today.
Shining a red laser through a narrow slit? You’ll see diffraction in action! The light bends and spreads out, creating a pattern of bright and dark fringes—proof that light behaves like a wave. #Physics #Diffraction #LaserLight
A-Level Biology: Diffusion in Agar. Some tubes are filled with agar and an indicator, and the rate of diffusion of some acid is measured as it moves through the agar. By setting up a known series of concentrations, an unknown concentration can be determined.
It’s that time of year when the micro lab comes out of its suitcase and shows the students what type of computer was used and available in the 1980’s. The micro lab was used to teach the students how to diagnose computer faults
Students learning how to separate two liquids of different boiling points using the distillation apparatus. The students had to choose all the parts, assemble them and then produce their distillation products.
This is the new Smart Cart Trigger Dropper from @pascoscientific. It can be used for explosions by programming when to depress the trigger, showing the path of a dropped ball, and demonstrating conservation of momentum. On my wish list, now to see if I can get one
Fun with probability. What are the odds that one of the cards in a blue-backed pack will be red? What is the probability that all the cards can change to red backs? Magic and sleight of hand beat all odds.
With all the electronic equipment, is there still a place in the Physics lab for a ticker tape timer and analogue data recording, like cutting up strips of ticker tape paper to create a graph? I believe there is, as it increases a student's knowledge of how to do something.
Thousands of Mayflies are out, dancing in the air to find a mate. Their life cycle is fascinating—from riverbed nymphs feeding on algae to two winged adult stages: the dull ‘dun’ (sub-imago), then the final imago that mates and dies within a day. #Nature #Mayflies #RiverLife
An AI image of a boy sitting alone from others. To what extent are poverty and social exclusion linked? In the lessons, we explore whether this is true and what could be done about it.
What is the capacity of a hard disk? Years ago, 5- 10 MB was fantastic, a few years ago, a gigabyte disk was a dream, now Terabytes are standard. What will be the average in a few years? Will the hard disk have gone and be all solid state in just a few years, gone like the CD, DVD and Floppy disk?
Separating oil and water with a separating funnel? Easy. First, I asked students to separate mixtures— They came up with tweezers for salt and sand (briefly), syringing oil from water (messy). The lesson ended with laughter and learning. #ScienceClass #Chemistry
This is a @pascoscientific Smartcart's eye view of the track as the cart hurtles down it, sending information to Capstone so that the student can immediately take away with them the accurate data plot of the acceleration down the track.
With the Exams so near now, all there is time for is Practice, Practice, Practice
Using an ethanol fuel cell to power led lights and a fan. Fuel cells can be of several different types and comparing them gives the students some idea of how they could be used in the real world.
What makes ATP, ADP and here AMP so useful? They are used in DNA and RNA, there are used to store and release energy and are used as signals inside cells. Each day we recycle kg's of these to keep us alive.
Very small-scale extraction of ores. On a wooden spill with iron oxide Fe(III)O and some Sodium Carbonate, and place in a Bunsen Burner. The iron oxide is not magnetic, but the iron produced at the end is magnetic, and the filings can be collected and moved by a magnet.
Inelastic collisions comparing one @pascoscientific smartcart hitting two stacked and two inline. Does it make a difference? Not much since the wheels are nearly frictionless. But it is an interesting experiment to do.
Students remember all the Circle Theorems so that they can solve the A-level problems. Finding the Midpoint of a chord, then finding a perpendicular and another perpendicular, allows the student to find the centre of the circle.
Taking a good look at the insides of an oscilloscope to discover how a Cathode Ray Tube works. Once commonplace, now students don't know what it is, and the technology about how it works, and its history in the discovery of particles.
Practising Serial dilutions as part of an A-Level Experiment Practice. Some of the students have to do practical experiments, and it is essential to get them to practice the sorts of things they will be doing.
Using the Turing Tumble by @UpperStoryCo, the students worked out some assembly language and followed the logic of what was happening to the bits. Using the ball bearings, the students saw how the gates set bits, so they could try adding some bits together and check whether they got the correct answer.
A-Level Chemistry learning mechanisms of chemical reactions. This is the reaction of Bromine with Propene. We need to draw the curly arrows from the bond to the atom, from the Pi Bond to the Bromine and from the Bromine-Bromine bond to the far Bromine atom.
Learning how the eye works using the @pascoscientific demo eye and a light source. First, the students experiment with the variable lens, discovering how the lens's shape can be altered by adding or removing water. They then place this into the eye to obtain a sharp image on the retina.
The Easter Holidays are for practising lots of exam questions and discovering that, in addition to the formulae on the exam sheet, there are loads of formulae that you are not given and have to memorise.
Coulomb's Law, A Level Physics, measuring the force between two charged polystyrene spheres. Given lots of different equipment and access to the Internet, students had to come up with ways to measure the force between the two spheres. Read more in the Blog
We took a slice of a transverse section through a rosemary leaf using a microtome and a cut-throat razor, taking ever-thinner slices until we could get one that was about one cell thick. This was then stained and placed on a microscope slide with a cover slip.
A level Psychology: Someone walks upstairs and having got there can’t remember why they walked up the stairs. Does forgetting get worse with old age or is it due to the way we learn?
It is that time of year when the year 12 students need to start thinking about A-level Computing Projects. The first step is to think of a project that can fulfil the exam criteria to gain the maximum potential marks.
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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