GCSE Science

Did you know water bends?
Science begins with wonder.

Our GCSE science courses teach students to think like scientists: to observe carefully, ask how we know, and test ideas with their own hands. Biology travels from the molecules of life to cells, DNA and membranes. Physics asks why things move as they do, from density and velocity to Newton's laws, momentum and stopping distances. Both have real practicals each week that can be done at home.

Questions worth wondering about

Curiosity first.
Understanding follows.

Ten weeks. Taught lessons, home practicals with guides, worksheets with answers, numbered tests and a personal progress bar.

Did you know water bends?

Rub a balloon on your hair and hold it near a thin stream from the tap. The water curves towards it. Why? The answer lies in the shape of a single water molecule.

Why does water pile up on a coin instead of running off?

Drop water onto a coin, one drop at a time. It forms a dome, far higher than you expect. Add a drop of soap and the dome collapses. Something is holding water to water.

How does water reach the top of a 30 metre tree with no pump?

Put a paper towel between a cup of coloured water and an empty cup, and watch water climb. The same idea feeds the tallest trees on Earth.

Are you taller in the morning?

Measure yourself before bed and again when you wake. Gravity has been pressing on your spine all day. In Physics, a tape measure and a question become an experiment.

The courses

10 weeks · £198 for two months

GCSE Biology

Thinking scientifically, the molecules of life, enzymes, cells, microscopes, DNA and transport across membranes.

Biology is the science of how living things work. Understanding means asking how we know, testing ideas with practicals, and explaining why a cell behaves as it does, not memorising a list of parts.

Week 1: Thinking like a scientist
Week 2: Why science can be trusted
Week 3: What makes something alive?
Week 4: Atoms, molecules and water
Week 5: Carbohydrates and lipids
Week 6: Proteins, nucleic acids and enzymes
Week 7: Microscopes and cell theory
Week 8: Inside the cell
Week 9: DNA: the molecule of inheritance
Week 10: Moving across membranes

10 weeks · £198 for two months

GCSE Physics: Forces and motion

Measurement, density, velocity, acceleration, Newton's laws, momentum, stopping distances and springs.

Physics explains why the world moves the way it does. Understanding means predicting what will happen before you measure it, then testing the idea with your own hands, not memorising equations.

Week 1: Measuring the world: accuracy, precision and method
Week 2: Density: why some things float
Week 3: Scalars, vectors and displacement
Week 4: Speed, velocity and distance-time graphs
Week 5: Acceleration and velocity-time graphs
Week 6: Gravity, weight and free fall
Week 7: Forces and Newton's first law
Week 8: Newton's second law: F = ma
Week 9: Newton's third law and momentum
Week 10: Stopping distances, springs and work

Did you know water bends?Science begins with wonder.

Curiosity first.Understanding follows.