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    6th Form Resources

    The resources on this page are specific to Sixth Form Students. They are a mixture of websites and reading lists. You will also find useful resources, including lots of advice for help with your mental health, on the other Online Resources page here

    Business

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    tutor2u logo

    Tutor2u is an online educational publisher. They provide a comprehensive range of support resources and services to teachers, students, parents and other educational communities.

    Hodder Education logo Hodder Education Business Review. You will need to subscribe to this. There is a discount for PHGS students, please inform them that the school is already a member.

    BBC News logo

    BBC Business News.

    ITV News logo

    ITV Business News.

    Sky News logo

    Sky Business News.

    The Guardian logo

    The Guardian Newspaper.
    Image of cinema and screen Watch these films:

    The Social Network

    Fyre: The greatest party that never happened

    Rogue Trader

    Computer Science

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    Isaac Computer Science logo

    Excellent resource with transition links from GCSE and a growing list of resources for the OCR specification.

    M I T Open Courseware logo

    MIT have made a number of Computer Science courses free to access online. This provides an amazing opportunity to access resources from one of the most highly regarded Universities in the world. Each course has videos as well as lecture notes and other resources.

    Khan Academy logo

    Free access to resources with a mix of articles, visualisations, quizzes, and coding challenges.

    Learn Python logo

    Tutorials, plus access to tutorials for a range of programming languages.

     

    Real Python logo

    Python tutorials.

    Javascript Info logo

    JavaScript overview, theory and examples.

    Tutorials Point logo

    Object Oriented programming in Python. Tutorials and example code.

    Science Daily logo

    General reading with up-to-date news.

    The Independent logo

    The Independent Computer Science News.

    BBC News logo

    BBC Technology News.

    Wired logo

    Wired Programming News.

    Design and Technology

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    British Nutrition Foundation logo

    Food Technology. The articles are very good and they debunk myths that are published in the papers and online.

    Picture of a pile of books

    Food Technology Reading List.

    Bender, D. (2002). An Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism (3rd Ed). Oxford, UK: Taylor and Francis Ltd.

    Brown, A.C. (2010). Understanding Food: Principles and Preparation (4th Ed). USA: Wadsworth Publishing.

    Campbell J (et al) (2011). Practical Cookery Level 3.  Hodder Education.

    Cesarani V (2002). Advanced Practical Cookery: A Textbook for Education and Industry. Hodder Education.

    Drummond, K.E. and Brefere, L.M. (2009). Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals (7th Ed). Hoboken, NJ, USA.

    John Wiley and Sons Foskett D, Cesarani V, (2007). Cesarani and Kinton’s The Theory of Catering Dynamic Learning

    Food Standards Agency. (2008). Manual of Nutrition (11 th Ed). London, UK: Stationary Office.

    Jeukendrup, A and Gleeson, M. (2004). Sport Nutrition: An Introduction to Energy Production and Performance. Leeds, UK: Human Kinetics

    Smith, M. and Morton, D. (2001). The Digestive System: Systems of the Body. London, UK.

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    Online resources to support Design learning.

    Design Milk logo

    Online Design Magazine.
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    Design Technology Reading List.

    Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion - and the Future of Clothes (Paperback).

    Little Book of Chanel (Hardback).

    The Fashion Book Hardcover. 25 Mar 2016.

    The Design of Everyday Things (The MIT Press) Paperback – 23 Dec 2013 by Donald A Norman.

    James Dyson's History of Great Inventions Paperback – 12 Sep 2002

      You can find more online resources for exam classes here.

    Drama

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    Broadway HD logo Stream your favourite Broadway hits Free 7 day trial, subscription afterwards.
    Picture of Patrick Stewart leaning on a stone wall Sonnets read by Patrick Stewart, on Facebook.
    The Stage logo Theatre news, review, interviews and jobs.

    National Theatre logo

    Website for the National Theatre. Also, check the Drama pages of sharepoint for further National Theatre resources.
    DV8 logo DV8 physical theatre. Some work available for free, some via subscription (advisory of 16+).
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    Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance.

    Authors: Elaine Aston and George Savona.

    ISBN-10: 0415049326

     

    The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

    Authors: P Allain and J Harvie 

    ISBN-10: 0415636310

     

    Theory for Performance: A Student’s Guide

    Author: P Auslander

    ISBN-10: 0415974534

     

    Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Authors: E Barrett and B Bolt 

    ISBN-10: 1501357956

     

    The Empty Space

    Author: Peter Brook 

    ISBN-10: 0689705581

     

    Towards a Poor Theatre

    Author: Jerzy Growtowski 

    ISBN-10: 0413349101

     

    The Director’s Craft

    Author: Katie Mitchell

    ISBN-10: 0415404398

    Economics

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    Tutor2U logo Tutor2u is an online educational publisher. They provide a comprehensive range of support resources and services to teachers, students, parents and other educational communities.

    Bloomberg logo

    Bloomberg Financial News.

    Bank of England logo

    The Bank of England website.

    New Economics Foundation

    The New Economics Foundation works with people igniting change from below and combines this with rigorous research to fight for change at the top.

    Economics Online logo

    Wider reading.

    Tim Harford Website logo

    Tim Harford is an author, columnist for the Financial Times and presenter of Radio 4's "More or Less".

    BBC Radio 4 logo

    Radio Four's "Pop Up Economics" programme.
       

    BBC News logo

    BBC Economy News.

     

    You can also follow Robert Peston or Stephanie Flanders on Twitter or Facebook.

    The Guardian logo

    Wider reading.
    Image of cinema and screen

    There are some really high quality and very educational films to watch – many can be found on Netflix.

    Too Big to Fail

    The Big Short

    Margin Call

    A Beautiful Mind

    English

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    Babel logo

    For English Language. Students search an article / pick a magazine to read and eventually will be asked to log in, as follows:

    Username: Prince Henry

    Password: Archive

    English & Media Centre logo

    For English Language and English Literature. 

    Username: Englishotley

    Password: phgsenglish

    Good Reads logo

    Classic Literature - 50 good books to read before you die.

    Geography

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    Internet Geography logo

    Wider reading in Geography.
      You can find more online resources for exam classes here.

    Health and Social Care

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    General
     
     

    Textbooks

    M.Billingham et al, (2016) Pearson Btec National Health and Social Care Student Book 1, PEARSON, London  ISBN 9781292126012

    Revision guides

    B.Baker et al, (2017) BTEC National Health and Social Care Revision Guide PEARSON, London ISBN: 9781292230443

    B.Baker et al, (2017) BTEC National Health and Social Care Workbook PEARSON, London ISBN:  9781292299082

    Unit 1 - Human lifespan Development
     

    Simply Psychology logo

    For the following theories:

    • Chomsky’s Theory of Language Acquisition
    • Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive development
    • Bowlby’s Theory of attachment
    • Gesell’s Maturation Theory
    • Bandura’ Social Learning Theory
    • The stress diathesis model
    • Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory

    Thought Co logo

    Social disengagement theory.

    Springer Link

    Activity theory.
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    Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids

    How the Rich Live Longer

    Pensions and the Price of Growing Old

    Secret life of a 4 year old

    How the Human body works

    Unit 2 - Working in Health and Social Care
     

    Health Careers logo

    Job roles in Health Care.

    Think Care Careers logo

    Job roles in Social Care.
    Picture of retro TV

    999 What’s your emergency?

    Panorama  Crisis in Care / Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal 

    Dispatches Can You Trust Your Surgeon

    Unit 5 - Meeting Individual Care and Support Needs
     
    The Guardian logo The Guardian website contains a useful health section containing articles and opinion pieces.
    Picture of retro TV

    Panorama  Crisis in Care / Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal 

    Dispatches Britain’s Pensioner Care Scandal

    Links for current case studies

    Aisha – older female with vascular dementia

    NHS Website

    Video – Elizabeth is missing

     

    Billy – Young male who is homeless

    St George's Crypt Website

    Video – Love and Drugs on the Street

    Unit 11 - Psychological perspectives 
     
    Simply Psychology logo

    For the following perspectives:

    • Behaviourist
    • Social learning
    • Psychodynamic
    • Humanistic
    • Cognitive
    • Biological
    Picture of retro TV

    Stacy Dooley On the Psych Ward

    Dispatches Young, British and Depressed / Wasting Away: The Truth About Anorexia 

    History

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      See the History section of the Online Resources section here. Also see the History FIrefly pages.

    Law

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    Wider reading on all aspects of Law.

    Maths

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    Exam Solutions logo

    Choose your level, watch the videos and be on the way to success with ExamSolutions.

    Physics and Maths Tutor logo

    Solution Banks and Revision Courses.

    Maths Genie logo

    A level revision and past papers.

    chalkdust logo

    A magazine for the mathematically curious.

    Plus magazine logo

    Plus is an online magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics.

    Wikipedia Maths Portal logo

    The Wikipedia Maths Portal.

    Media

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    Picture of retro TV

    Long form TV Drama - watch the following series:

    Mr Robot

    House of Cards

    Homeland

    Stranger Things

    The Killing

    Trapped

    Borgen

    Deutschland 83

    The Big Issue logo

    Spend some time reading the Big Issue webpage.

    Look at past front covers of The Big Issue – find them by doing a google image search.

    The Guardian logo Read The Guardian and follow their Twitter feed.

    Mail Online logo

    Read The Daily Mail and follow their Twitter feed.

    BBC news logo

    BBC News.
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    Explore websites that advertise male grooming products

    Old Spice 

    Dove men + Care

    Nivea Men

     

    Explore websites advertising energy drinks

    Lucozade – look at sport and energy pages

    Monster

    Red Bull 

     

    Explore websites for homeless charities

    Shelter

    Centrepoint

    The Salvation Army

    Image of the words Music Videos

    Watch these music videos.

    Mainstream

    Corinne Bailey Rae – Stop Where You Are

    Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy

    Emeli Sandé – Heaven

    Alternative

    Fatboy Slim – Ya Mama

    Radiohead – Burn the Witch

    David Guetta – Titanium

    Image of man running in Minecraft

    Read articles about the success of Minecraft and what is going on in the gaming industry at the moment. 

    Eurogamer 

    The Guardian

    The Financial Times

    Polygon

    There are loads more out there!

    BBC Radio 1 logo

    LIsten to the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
    Image of cinema and screen

    Read articles about how films are marketed and articles about success of Disney as a global media conglomerate.

    The Drum

    Screen Daily

    Economist

     

    MFL

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    Kerboodle logo

    Key Stage 5 students have a username and password. Students can access exam style questions and additional activities from the textbook without being set them.

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    Vocab learning - search for specific courses to match the courses being studied. Some staff have set up groups for this already for students. There are also learning sets on here for the films and books studied by students in KS5.

    Languages Online logo

    Lots of online exercises on different topics and grammar points in all 3 languages.

    French

     
    Image of pile of books with swirling cine film

    Students are studying a film and a book.

    Film: La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading.

    Book: Un Sac de Billes - Joseph Joffo. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading.

    1 Jour 1 Actu logo

    Website filled with news articles / videos and activities for French students so perfect for A Level students. Linked to this is https://soundcloud.com/1jour1actu with all the audio files on.

    News in Slow French logo

    An audio clip of the news roundup for the day, published a day later, with transcript with key words translated into English.

    1001mags logo

    Links to free content in newspapers / magazines published in French.

    German

     
    Image of pile of books with swirling cine film

    Students are studying a film and a book.

    Film: Lola Rennt – Tom Tykwer. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading.

    Book: Der Vorleser – Bernhard Schlink. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading.

    Deutsche Welle logo

    This German website is in multiple languages, including English, and has links in the Learn German section to current affairs articles, the slowly spoken news, reading and listening activities linked to topics on the A Level syllabus and lots of materials for reading around the topics studied.

    nachrichten leict logo

     

    Short German news articles with the option to listen / follow and download the audio.
    Tages Schau logo 100 second video of the daily news roundup. Really useful to keep up to date with what is happening in Germany with video.

    Spanish

     
    Image of pile of books with swirling cine film

    Students are studying a film and a book.

    Film: Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading.

    Book: Como Agua Para Chocolate - Laura Esquivel. Any articles / online material related to this would be great background reading.

    News in Slow Spanish logo

    An audio clip of the news roundup for the day. published a day later with transcript, with key words translated into English.

    BBC News Mundo logo

    A BBC news website in easier to understand Spanish with links to stories and articles from the Spanish speaking world

    El Mundo logo

    Spanish newspaper, online version.

    Music

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    Music First logo

    PHGS on Music First.

    A Q A logo

    AS and A Level Music Teaching resources.

    Philosophy and Ethics

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    Philosophy 

    ● General Philosophy Panpsycast podcast.

    ● Peter Vardy ‘The Puzzle of God’ (book).

    ● Peter Vardy ‘The Puzzle of Christianity’ (book).

    ● Eduqas AS Philosophy of Religions & Religion and Ethics textbook (book).

    Challenges to religious belief - the problem of evil and suffering

    ● Tsunami (where was God?) – A channel 4 programme that examines how the 2004 boxing day Tsunami both challenged and strengthened people’s faith in God Part 1 / Part 2

    ● Alvin Platinga on the free will defence.

    ● Christians explain why they believe God allows evil and suffering.

    ● Phillip Zimbardo on the psychology of evil.

    ● TED talk - In the days following the tragic South Asian tsunami of 2004, the Rev. Tom Honey pondered the question, How could a loving God have done this? Here is his answer.

    ● Stephen Hawkins on the universe – good general links to how our universe began.

    Arguments for the existence of God

    ● Alvin Platinga on the existence of God.

    ● Leonard Susskind: Is the universe fine tuned for life? Good link to the teleological argument.

    ● The genius of Charles Darwin – Richard Dawkins explores evolution. Good link to the teleological argument.

    ● Kalam cosmological argument debate: William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll.

    ● Sean Carroll – did the universe have a beginning? Good link to the cosmological argument.

    ● TED talk – Hidden miracles of the natural world. Good link to the teleological argument.

    ● Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston debate the cosmological argument.
    Religious belief as a product of the human mind

    ● The big think – The brain creates religion. 

    ● Is the brain hardwired for God?

    ● BBC radio debate on Freud and Jung.

    Challenges to Theist arguments for the existence of God

    ● Richard Dawkins: Biologist Richard Dawkins launches into a full-on appeal for atheists to make public their beliefs and to aggressively fight the incursion of religion into politics and education.

    ● Richard Dawkins: Interview and podcast on the ‘God delusion’.

    ● Alister McGrath: Interview on the ‘Dawkins Delusion’ and reasons for theism.

    ● TED talk - What aspects of religion should atheists (respectfully) adopt? Alain de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" - call it Atheism 2.0 - that incorporates religious forms and traditions to satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.

     Stephen Fry on the importance of ‘unbelief’.

    ● Daniel Dennett: Arguments for atheism.

    ● Sam Harris: Journey to Atheism sparked by 9/11.

    ● Christopher Hitchens – Why God is not great.

    Religious experience

    ● The story of God – Morgan Freeman explores miracles.

    ● BBC radio – Discussion of William James on ‘The Varieties of Religious experience’.

    Ethics

    ● General Ethics Panpsycast podcast.

    ● Peter Vardy ‘The Puzzle of Ethics’ (book).

    ● Eduqas AS Philosophy of Religions & Religion and Ethics textbook (book).

    Ethical thought

    ● Robert Adams’ Modified Divine Command theory.

    ● A short lecture on Ethical Egoism and the main criticisms.

    ● The Ego and His Own – Max Stirner.

    ● Ayn Rand on the value of egoism as an ethical approach.

    Deontological ethics

    ● Aquinas Natural Law – uses slightly different terms to explain the Primary Precepts but still worth watching for the overall theory.

    ● A good summary of John Finnis’ version of Natural Law.

    ● Teleological ethics · J.S.Mill essay on Utilitarianism.

    ● Jeremy Bentham, ‘An Introduction to the Principles of Morality’.

    ● Utilitarianism – great introduction from Crash Course philosophy.

    ● Article about Robinson’s book ‘Honest to God’ which started thinking about Situation Ethics.

    ● Slideshow covering Fletcher’s Working and Fundamental Principles and the 4 examples he uses to illustrate these.
    Buddhism

    ● General Buddhism Access to Insight / Clear Vision Trust

    ● WJEC/Eduqas AS Buddhism Textbook

    Religious Figures and Sacred Texts

    ● Animation covering events in the life of the Buddha.

    ● BBC Documentary about the Life of the Buddha.

    ● Podcast introducing the Pali Canon.

    ● Range of information and videos about Thich Nhat Hanh.​​

    ● Official website of the Dalai Lama.

    ● Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s introduction to the Patimokkha.

    ● Article about the impact of the Heart Sutra.

    ● Podcast explaining the meaning of the parable of the Burning House from the Lotus Sutra.

    Religious Concepts and Religious Life
    ● Use the general websites given above.
    Religion and Society

    ● Detailed review and analysis of Stephen Batchelor’s Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist.

    ● David Brazier on why Buddhism is a religion.

    ● Website of Joanna Macy – socially engaged Buddhism practitioner and environmental campaigner.

    ● Lecture on the history of women in Buddhism.

    ● Keynote speech given by Rita Gross – noted author on Feminism in Buddhism.

     Dalai Lama on Buddhism and Science.

    Physical Education & BTEC Sport

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    The Ever Learner logo

    A level PE students will need to email Mr Curtis to request to be added to the A level PE course.

    BTEC Sport students will need to email Mr Hyam to request to be added to the BTEC Sport course.

    Brian Mac Sports Coach logo

    Useful website that covers a variety of content from the A Level PE course.

    Teach PE logo

    Useful website which covers a broad range of topics for the A Level PE course.

    BBC Sport logo

    Useful to keep up to date with developments in the sporting world, for both A Level and BTEC Sport Courses.

    Mind Tools logo

    Useful for Leadership and Stress management ideas in BTEC Sport - Unit 6 - Sports Psychology.

    Pile of Books

    A Level PE
    The following books are approved by AQA and Mr Curtis would recommend that A Level PE students purchase one/two of these:

    AQA A-level PE (Year 1 and Year 2) Paperback – 27 Sep 2019

    • Publisher: Hodder Education (27 Sept. 2019)
    • ISBN-10: 1510473300
    • ISBN-13: 978-1510473300
    • Price: £39.99

    (This book has been more recently published and combines the two books below into one, but includes more practise questions)

     

    AQA A-level PE 1

    • Authors: Carl Atherton, Symond Burrows, Ross Howitt and Sue Young (Editor Mike Murray)
    • Publisher: Hodder Education
    • ISBN-13: 9781471859564
    • Price: £24.99

    AQA A-level PE 2

    • Authors: Carl Atherton, Symond Burrows, Sue Young, Ross Howitt
    • Publisher: Hodder Education
    • ISBN-13: 9781471859595
    • Price: £24.99

    These two guides are more concise for students to use as a study aid:

    AQA A Level Physical Education Student Guide 1: Factors affecting participation in physical activity and sport.

    • Authors: Symond Burrows, Michaela Byrne, Sue Young
    • ISBN: 9781510455467
    • Price: £9.99

     

    AQA A Level Physical Education Student Guide 2: Factors affecting optimal performance 

    in physical activity and sport.

    • Authors: Symond Burrows, Michaela Byrne, Sue Young
    • ISBN: 9781510455498
    • Price: £9.99

    Pile of Books

    BTEC Sport 

    The following books are approved by Pearson and Mr Hyam would recommend that BTEC students purchase one/two of these:

    BTEC Nationals Sport Student Book 1 + Activebook

    • Authors: Adam Gledhill, Richard Taylor, Louise Sutton, Matthew Fleet, Chris Manlay, Alex Sergison, Chris Lydon
    • ISBN: 9781292134000
    • Price: £31.66

    BTEC Nationals Sport Student Book 2 + Activebook

    • Authors: Adam Gledhill, Amy Gledhill, Dale Forsdyke, Chris Manlay, Alex Sergison, Chris Lydon, Matthew Fleet
    • ISBN: 9781292134062
    • Price: £3

    Politics

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    Image of hands holding a tablet reading the news

    Online News (some have a payment fire walls):

    UK

    www.guardian.co.uk

    www.independent.co.uk

    www.times.co.uk

    www.huffpost.co.uk

    www.telegraph.co.uk

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics

    www.Channel4.com/news

    https://news.sky.com/uk

     

    US

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/

    https://www.nytimes.com/

    https://www.newyorker.com/news

    https://edition.cnn.com/politics

    Hodder Education logo

    Hodder Education Politics Review. You will need to subscribe to this. There is a discount for PHGS students, please inform them that the school is already a member.

    Pile of books

    A comprehensive reading list can be found at the AQA website. 

    Psychology

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    Simply Psychology logo A Level Psychology revision.

    Physics and Maths Tutor logo

    A Level Psychology revision.

    tutor 2 U logo

    A Level Teaching and Learning resources.

    Science

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    Chemistry

     

    STEM learning logo

    Specific link for A Level Chemistry students, which provides lots of Chemistry independent learning resources.

    MaChem Guy logo

    Youtube Channel for A Level Chemistry students.

    ChemGuide logo

    Chemguide provides concise and clear notes for each topic easily followed.

    O C R logo

    The OCR website has the specification that you can use to organise revision and links to past papers and resources.

    Physics and Maths Tutor

    Physics and Maths Tutor provides lots of topic test yourself questions with marks schemes and lots of past papers both current and legacy with MS.

    Royal Society of Chemistry logo

    RSC has lots of remote resources for Chemistry and good for practical science.

    Biology

     

    Biology Mad logo

    For A Level Biology students.

    Physics

     

    Physics Net logo

    For GCSE and A Level Physics students.

    A Level Physics Online logo

    For A Level Physics students.

    Physbot logo

    For A Level Physics students.

    Physics Tutpr Online logo

    For A Level Physics students.