Our home education setup.

Home ed / homeschooling setup. Do you have a unique space or designated area just for home education? We don't; our whole house is our 'home-ed space'.

Browsing social media and home education blogs can make us feel that our own home-ed lives are lacking by comparison - but much of it is nonsense and social media 'gloss' as we all know. Posts at the start of each school term (if you even follow that sort of thing!) always go up with people's 'home-ed setup'. In particular, the Twinkl home ed parents Facebook group is awash with them. Don't get me wrong, they can be inspiring and lovely to see (and the group is excellent) - but on trying days, they make me feel inadequate and a bit jealous. The beautiful rooms with proper desks, space and shelves, the posters and curriculum-linked displays, 'morning baskets' and storage racks, art stations and craft areas, units of work planned, printed out and beautifully ring bound (I'm a bit envious of people who own ring binding machines, stationary always appeals to me!) and colour coded files... You get the gist.

In contrast, here is a link to our setup, which isn't planned at all but more of a jumbled, shove-it-in, and make-do affair. 

Instagram reel or YouTube video—the reel is much shorter, and the longer YouTube video has me talking on it (cringe!). Both are my first attempts at video, so please be kind!

I'd love to hear about your home setup in the comments.