Professor Newton
Predict, Observe, Explain. Always guess first.
Newton makes your child guess what will happen before the answer appears — because a wrong guess they care about teaches more than a right answer they copied.
Named after Isaac Newton, who — so the story goes — asked why the apple falls. Newton wants your guess before the answer, too.
How Prof Newton teaches.
Most tutors would just show the steps. Watch Prof Newton refuse — and make the answer click instead.
On the Moon, an astronaut drops a hammer and a feather from the same height at the same moment. Predict — which lands first? Commit before you reason.
hammer? no — same time?
Stop. Pick one. Then we test it. The wobble between answers is the thing we're going to investigate.
No, it won't do your homework.
Yes, it'll actually help.
If you're the one who'll actually use Prof Newton — here's the deal:
- Ask the dumb questionThere isn't one. No sighing, no judging, no "weren't you listening?"
- Get it wrong, loudlyWrong is just a clue. Try as many times as you need — nobody's counting.
- Your pace, your callRace ahead or take it slow. There's no class to keep up with.
- Nobody's watchingNo marks, no report home. Just you and the problem.
The KS3 physics map — not a year-by-year checklist.
KS3 physics isn't a list ticked off term by term. It's one connected landscape — 6 strands that feed each other. Prof Newton treats all three years as a whole, and lets your child roam it by curiosity: circling back, leaping ahead, following whatever grips them.
- Forces
- Pushes, pulls & balanced forces
- Gravity & weight (vs mass)
- Friction, drag & air resistance
- Stretching springs & Hooke's law
- Pressure in solids, liquids & gases
- Moments, levers & balance
- Motion
- Speed, distance & time
- Reading distance-time graphs
- Acceleration & changing speed
- Relative motion (who's really moving?)
- Forces and how things speed up or stop
- Energy
- Energy stores & transfers
- Conservation: energy is never lost
- Work done & power
- Heating, cooling & insulation
- Fuels, electricity & energy at home
- Efficiency & wasted energy
- Waves
- Light: reflection & shadows
- How we see & coloured light
- Sound, pitch & loudness
- Waves carrying energy, not matter
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Electricity & magnetism
- Current, voltage & resistance
- Series & parallel circuits
- Drawing & reading circuit diagrams
- Static electricity
- Magnets, fields & electromagnets
- Matter & space
- The particle model of matter
- Density & changes of state
- Gas pressure & temperature
- The solar system & gravity in space
- Day, night, seasons & the Moon
Prof Newton teaches the links between these strands — not six separate boxes to tick. Every strand the national curriculum requires, mapped as one whole; most parents have never seen it laid out like this. (Want it pinned to one school's exact plan instead? That's aitutors for Schools.)
Ideas don't live in one subject.
Prof Newton points out the links most tutors miss:
Physics isn't a list of facts to memorise — it's the rulebook the whole physical world is playing by, from a football's flight to the kettle's bill.
Prof Newton is part of one faculty.
Not eight separate chatbots — one team that shares what it learns about your child, with the Mentor checking how they're really doing before any lesson begins.
Energy-aware — on a Red day, the answer is rest. We watch wellbeing; we're not a mental-health service. Any sign of distress → Childline 0800 1111.
Adapts to your child.
However your child learns best — chatty or quiet, quick or careful, into football or fan-fiction — Prof Newton meets them there, and still won't do the work for them.
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