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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.

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

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.

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.

Week 7 extends brackets and factorising into two new directions: expanding two brackets at once, and rearranging a formula to make a different letter the subject. We finish with algebraic fractions, treating expressions with letters exactly the way you already treat ordinary fractions.

Week 6 takes last week's multiplying skills and applies them to brackets — expanding by multiplying everything inside a bracket, then the reverse process, factorising. We finish by forming algebraic expressions from written descriptions, putting the whole week's skills to use.

Unit 2 begins: Algebra. This week covers the notation itself, simplifying expressions by collecting like terms, substitution, and multiplying/dividing terms — the same rules of arithmetic you already know, just written in a more general way. Same tiered format, warm-ups that build on what you already know.

Free GCSE/iGCSE Biology Unit 1 assessment: 20 questions with mark scheme, covering cell biology, microscopy, bacteria, viruses & stem cells (Weeks 1–6).

The last week of Unit 1: rounding, estimation, and systematic listing, followed by a self-directed mixed review and the Unit 1 assessment. By the end of this week you should feel genuinely solid on everything from arithmetic to BIDMAS — the foundation the rest of the course builds on.

Week 2 builds straight on last week's arithmetic: factors, multiples, primes, and the two ideas that trip most people up first time round, HCF and LCM. Same tiered format as Week 1, warm-ups that recall what you already know, and a Friday consolidation before we move on to powers and roots.

We're starting right at the foundations: place value, the four operations, and negative numbers. Five short lessons, a Foundation/Intermediate/Higher choice every day so nothing feels too easy or too hard, and a Friday consolidation to lock it all in before we build on it next week.

Week 6 of our GCSE/iGCSE Biology course: how one genome builds every cell type in your body. Covers cell differentiation, gene expression & stem cells.

Bacteria, Viruses, and the Question of What Counts as Alive The Big Question This Week "If something can infect you, reproduce, and even evolve, but isn't made of cells and can't survive on its own, is it actually alive?"