KS3 · Biology
KS3 biology tuition, online and one to one.
Biology carries more to know than the other two sciences, and it is examined on precision of language: a marker is looking for the right term used correctly, not for a description that gets close.
Tell us what your child is working on and we will find them a KS3 biology tutor. Every tutor holds an enhanced DBS check, has been interviewed by our school staffing team, and teaches in a recorded session in your browser.
- Enhanced DBS checked
- Interviewed by our school staffing team
- Every session recorded
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The syllabus, in plain English
What biology covers
Depth and emphasis differ between levels and between exam boards, and your child's school decides both. If you are not sure which part is going wrong, this is the shortlist to read down before you tell us.
Cells and organisation
Cell structure, transport in and out of cells, cell division, and how tissues, organs and systems fit together.
Exchange and transport
Gas exchange, circulation, digestion and transport in plants, and why surface area to volume ratio keeps coming up.
Infection, immunity and health
Pathogens and disease, the body's defences, drug development, and non-communicable disease.
Homeostasis and response
The nervous and hormonal systems, control of blood glucose, water and temperature, and reproduction.
Genetics and evolution
DNA, inheritance and genetic diagrams, variation, natural selection, and the evidence for evolution.
Ecology
Ecosystems, cycling of materials, biodiversity and human impact, plus the sampling techniques used to measure any of it.
What Key Stage 3 asks for in biology
Key Stage 3 is Years 7, 8 and 9: the three years between primary school and the start of GCSE courses. It is where the foundations the GCSE then assumes are actually laid, and a gap left in it tends to surface again in Year 10.
There is no national exam at the end of Key Stage 3. Schools assess it in their own way, so a school report is the thing to read rather than a national scale.
Tell us where your child is now and what they are working towards when you tell us about them. Both are optional — plenty of families have never been given a target, and a guess is no help to a tutor — and whatever you say goes to the tutor with everything else.
Wherever you are in the United Kingdom
Every session runs online, in our own video room in your browser. There is nothing to download and nothing to install, nobody comes to your house, and nobody has to be driven anywhere on a school night. It does not matter where in the United Kingdom you live: the tutors on this page are the tutors available to you.
Tutor and child work on the same whiteboard, which updates for both of them as they write, and whatever is on it at the end is saved to the session. The lesson is recorded, and you can watch your own child’s sessions back from your account.
A biology tutor is still an adult alone with your child.
Tuition means somebody your family has never met spending an hour a week with your child, unsupervised. That is the problem this platform was built around, and it is why the vetting is not a page in the small print.
Read our full safeguarding policyEnhanced DBS, every tutor
Every tutor on the platform holds an enhanced DBS check. We do not make exceptions and we do not allow grace periods.
Interviewed before they teach
Our school staffing team interviews every tutor before they take a single session. They are the same people who vet and place staff in UK schools.
Every session recorded
Sessions are recorded and retained for safeguarding review, so there is always a record of what happened in a lesson. You can watch your own child's sessions back from your account. The tutor cannot.
Continuously monitored
Vetting is not a one-off. If a tutor's clearance lapses they come off the platform automatically, and they cannot teach again until it is back in place and verified by us.
Nothing happens off the platform
Every session runs in our own video room in the browser, and personal contact details are never exchanged between a tutor and a family.
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