How I teach — and why it works

After 30 years, I’ve thrown out everything that doesn’t help students learn. No slides. No scripts. Just live, personalised, active chemistry.

• No PowerPoints, ever — slides encourage passive watching. Instead, we build every idea from scratch on an interactive whiteboard, so you see the logic form in front of you.
• The interactive whiteboard — we sketch mechanisms, annotate structures, and solve calculations together in real time. You can draw too — it’s a shared space, not a lecture.
• Lessons built around you — before we start, I learn your exam board, target grade, and trouble spots. Every session is planned specifically for you.
• Collaborative learning — you’ll be solving, explaining, and predicting throughout. When you build the understanding yourself, it stays.
• Exam-board precision — because I mark real exams, technique and mark-scheme language are woven into everything we do.