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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Psychology A Level tip 🧠
Rereading ≠ remembering.
Memory improves when you practise retrieval, not recognition.
Test yourself. Space it out. Repeat. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/psychology-level-memory-and-learning.html
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – Training a Simple Model AI isn’t magic. It’s data, predictions, errors, and improvement. By training a simple model, students can see how maths and logic power modern AI—from graphs to feedback loops.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/introduction-to-artificial-intelligence.html
Young’s modulus doesn’t have to be painful.
Using @Lascells Strip & Wire Testing Clamps with plastic carrier bags makes elastic behaviour, limits of proportionality, and tensile strength visible.
Cheaper, safer, clearer — and better physics. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/making-youngs-modulus-actually-teachable.html
Complex numbers aren’t just imaginary.
From Argand diagrams to waves, circuits, and rotations, students see how a+bi solves real problems that real numbers cannot.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/complex-numbers-from-argand-diagrams-to.html
You don’t need uranium to teach nuclear physics.
Use coins or dice to model radioactive decay — and measure half-life with just a graph and some stats.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/measuring-half-life-with-simulated.html
Natural selection made visible.
Students model evolution using peppered moths to see how environmental change drives survival, reproduction, and shifts in populations. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/natural-selection-in-action-modelling.html
Augmented Reality isn’t just for big tech.
Students can learn AR at A Level using Python, Unity, or simple web-based tools — building interactive models and apps that blend code with creativity.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-it-possible-to-teach-and-develop.html
Flame tests aren’t limited to a nichrome wire. Students explore splints, cotton buds, blue filters and more to identify metal ions by colour — a clear, visual GCSE Chemistry practical. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/testing-unknown-ions-with-flame-tests.html
Why doesn’t temperature rise during melting and boiling?
Students measure specific latent heat using immersion heaters, mass changes, and Q=IVt revealing the hidden energy of state changes.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/investigating-specific-latent-heat.html
Graph transformations, step by step.
Students learn how y=f(x) turns into y=f(x−a), and more — by shifting, stretching, and reflecting familiar graphs.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/exploring-graph-transformations-step-by.html
How does wire length affect resistance?
Students measure voltage and current for different lengths of nichrome wire and see the direct proportionality emerge on a graph. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/measuring-effect-of-resistance-wire.html
Starting a small business like t-shirt printing?
Students learn the difference between fixed and variable costs — the key to pricing, profitability, and break-even analysis. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-level-business-studies-starting-small.html
Students build a basic calculator in Python to practise input handling, conditionals, and arithmetic operations — a perfect starter project for GCSE and A-Level Computing. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/building-basic-calculator-in-python.html
How reactive are common metals?
Students test magnesium, zinc, iron, and copper with acid — comparing reaction rates and using the hydrogen pop test to confirm results. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/testing-reactivity-of-metals-in-acid.html
Dropping a picket fence through a @pascoscientific light gate gives one of the most precise classroom measurements of free fall.
Students generate velocity–time graphs and calculate g from the gradient. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/investigating-free-fall-using-pasco.html
Sequences make more sense with real data.
Students model savings, population growth, transport patterns and more — turning arithmetic and geometric rules into real-world maths. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/exploring-sequences-and-series-with.html
How fast does amylase break down starch?
Students test enzyme rates using iodine drops, controlled temperatures, and careful timing — a clear, hands-on GCSE Biology investigation. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/12/measuring-rate-of-enzyme-amylase-and.html
Why do people miss a person in a gorilla suit walking across a scene?
Students explore inattentional blindness through the classic “Gorillas in Our Midst” study — and how magicians use the same principles to fool us. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/visual-inattention-gorillas-in-our.html
Students learn the basics of encryption by writing a Caesar cipher in Python — a hands-on introduction to cybersecurity, algorithms, and logical thinking. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/understanding-encryption-writing-caesar.html
Why does soap lather better in some places than others?
Students test water hardness and pH to explore how dissolved ions affect everyday chemistry — from limescale to acidity. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/testing-water-quality-hardness-and-ph.html
Springs, pendulums, and smart carts.
Students use @pascoscientific sensors to measure displacement, velocity, and acceleration in SHM — seeing sinusoidal motion unfold in real time.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/simple-harmonic-motion-measuring-shm.html
Do taller people have bigger feet?
Students explore correlation by collecting real data, plotting scatter graphs, and interpreting lines of best fit — statistics they can measure themselves.
https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/exploring-correlation-do-taller-people.html
A tuning fork, a tube, and some water.
Students measure the speed of sound by finding resonance and using v=fλ — a simple, elegant waves experiment. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/measuring-speed-of-sound-with-tuning.html
Can you run quadrat studies in winter?
Absolutely. Students can still track populations — focusing on evergreens, mosses, leaf-litter species, and winter abiotic factors. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/tracking-populations-sampling-and.html
From WhatsApp groups to global movements, social media has transformed how communities form and grow.
A Level Sociology students analyse how digital platforms reshape identity, relationships, and power. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-level-sociology-impact-of-social.html
From spreadsheets to SQL.
A-Level Computing students build a Student Record System to learn how real databases store and retrieve information. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-level-computing-introduction-to.html
Strong acid or weak acid?
Using @pascoscientific pH sensors, students measure real differences in dissociation — far beyond what universal indicator can show. https://hemelprivatetuition.blogspot.com/2025/11/strong-and-weak-acids-with-ph-sensors.html
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
