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

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.

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.

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).

Week 3 moves into powers and roots — squares, cubes, and their opposites — before tying it all together with the order of operations (BIDMAS) and a first look at index laws. Same tiered format as before, with warm-ups that build on what you already know from the last two weeks.

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.