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If your phone is anything like most home-educating families’, it’s full of photos that tell the story of your child’s learning. The nature walk where they identified six different birds. The papier-mâché volcano that actually erupted. In the afternoon, they sat reading for two hours straight and didn’t notice the time. All of it, sitting in a camera roll that nobody scrolls back through....

Morning baskets have become a popular part of home education for many families, but they can look very different from one home to another. That is partly why they can be hard to define neatly.

At heart, a morning basket is simply an intentional way to begin the day together. It gives families a chance to gather, slow down, and share a few...

For many home ed families, science at IGCSE level can feel like a crossroads. Children may love the subject, but the exam pathway can feel daunting. Parents often find themselves wondering how to keep curiosity alive while also keeping future options open. Structure can help. Pressure rarely does. This year...

I am genuinely outraged.

Listening to recent comments from Keir Starmer's speech in Hastings left me stunned. To hear home education spoken about in the same breath as extremism. To hear it framed as something that needs “tougher regulation” because schools are supposedly essential for integration. It felt deeply...