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Solutions, solubility, and solubility curves explained through a stubborn spoonful of sugar, Week 2 of our home education GCSE Chemistry course.

Unit 1 - Building Blocks of Matter Week 1 - Why Can You Smell Dinner From Upstairs? Week 2 - Why Does a Cup of Tea Stop Dissolving Sugar?

States of matter, particle theory, and diffusion explained through everyday kitchen smells — Week 1 of our home education GCSE/iGCSE Chemistry course.

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A Two-Year Journey Through the Living World Hello and Welcome! A little about me and my motivation for writing this curriculum. I'm a home educating mum, juggling curriculum writing alongside caring for my disabled husband and daughter. This course is built with real home education life in mind: flexible, engaging, and completely free to use. If you find something broken, a link that no longer works, or something that just doesn't make sense, please reach out via Facebook, an

Readings Documents that explain which weeks cover different exam boards and which units to take for Double Award Science. As the course expands, these will be updated to cover new units. Biology Chemistry Year 10 - Biology Units Unit 1 - The Building Blocks of Life Start Here Week 1 - Introduction Week 2 - What is Life? Week 3 - What are living things made of? Week 4 - Meet the Cell Week 5 - Kingdom of the small Week 6 - Catch up/revise and Unit Assessment You do not need to

Free Week 12 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: gas exchange in plants, a stomata leaf-peel practical, and the century-long puzzle of how trees pull water skyward.

Free Week 11 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: aerobic and anaerobic respiration, an exercise/pulse-rate practical, and the phlogiston myth that fooled science for a century.

Free Week 10 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: human digestion and enzymes, a food-testing practical, and the fistula patient who let one doctor watch digestion happen live.

Free Week 9 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: photosynthesis, limiting factors, a pondweed practical, and the 17th-century willow tree experiment that got it half right.

The final week of Unit 3: two days of mixed, real-life ratio and proportion problems, a self-directed review, extra timed practice, and the Unit 3 assessment. By the end of this week you should feel genuinely confident applying ratio and proportion to real situations, not just isolated exercises.

This week puts ratio to work in real-world contexts: scaling recipes with direct proportion, working out which supermarket deal is actually better value, reading scale drawings and maps, and converting between units of measurement — some of the most genuinely useful skills in the whole course.

Unit 3 begins: Ratio & Proportion. This week covers what ratio actually means, how to simplify it, share an amount using one, and solve problems when you're only given part of the picture — genuinely practical maths that shows up everywhere from recipes to exchange rates.

Induction week — meet your course, set up your portfolio, and find out exactly what your first Unit 1 assignment is asking of you.

Start Here. Reading List

Over forty books for Years 10 and 11 to read purely for pleasure — sorted by genre, with a short synopsis and reading-level guide for each, plus a live link to check availability on Open Library. From gripping thrillers and dystopian fiction to books that tackle identity, mental health, and the refugee experience, there's something here for every reader.

As GCSE study ramps up, it's easy for reading to become something teens are tested on rather than something they enjoy. Our new Year 10/11 Free Reading Programme protects a daily 20-minute slot for reading purely for pleasure — no exam texts, no comprehension questions, just a curated list of books teens can get lost in.

Free Week 8 GCSE/iGCSE Biology lesson: diffusion, osmosis and active transport, with videos, a potato osmosis practical, and a science-history mystery.

Welcome to a full two-year, self-paced GCSE Maths course for home-educated students — covering the whole AQA and Edexcel syllabus from basic arithmetic to Higher tier. Here's how the weekly structure works, what you'll need, how assessments run, and why it's completely okay to take your time.

The final week of Unit 2: algebraic fractions with multiplication and division, then two days pulling everything together — mixed problem solving and forming equations from real-life situations, before a self-directed review and the Unit 2 assessment.