Home education can offer flexibility, individual learning and more time together, but it also brings costs, responsibility and a considerable mental load. Here’s an honest look at both sides.
If you are considering home education, you have probably encountered two completely different versions of it online.
In one, home educated children spend their days exploring museums, following...
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Autistic pupils remain disproportionately absent from school. For some families, home education becomes a positive choice. For others, it can feel like the only workable option left.
For many families with autistic children, home education was never part of the original plan.
They expected their child to go to school. They bought the uniform, packed the lunch, found the book bag and...
Homeschooling can offer enormous freedom, but it changes much more than where your child learns. Here are the practical, financial and emotional questions worth thinking through before you decide.
There is a point many parents reach before home education where the same question goes round and round in their head: Should I actually do this?
Home education gives families enormous flexibility, but the real freedom is not simply escaping school hours. It is being able to build an education around the child who is actually in front of you.
Freedom is one of the words that comes up again and again when people talk about home education.
How to choose qualifications, find an exam centre, book as a private candidate and avoid some of the common GCSE mistakes home educating families make.
Thinking about GCSEs when you home educate can feel bewildering at first. There is no school handing you a list of subjects, choosing the exam board, making the entries and telling you where to turn up. Instead you encounter specifications,...
There are so many ways to source resources for home education - from textbooks and science kits, to brilliant subscription boxes that arrive through your letterbox. Before you buy, it’s worth checking home-ed discount groups (often on Facebook), as many subscriptions offer reduced prices for home educators. These are a few of my own recommendations. I'd love to hear yours. Do add them in the...
