Educational Freedom is a non-profit organisation providing Home Education information and support. Our primary purpose is ensuring all Home Educators have access to FREE information and support. We aim to provide everything you could ever need to know about Home Education.
A great way of ensuring your Home Education journey goes smoothly is to read all of this website. The menu at the top will help you navigate each section.
Making the decision to Home Educate can be daunting. But be assured that there is plenty of support out there! There are lots of families that have been in your situation, and we have supported tens of thousands of them.
Read through all of our website to learn all about Home Education. Use the menu to navigate through all of our pages especially the WHAT TO DO FIRST page for your country. Navigating through each page in turn really will help you understand everything you need to do. Then move on to the dealing with the LA section.
PLEASE NOTE: MOST PAGES SHOULD NOT BE READ AS A STAND ALONE PAGE, ENSURE YOU READ THE INFO IN OTHER MENTIONED PAGES TOO.
Where to find us after you've read our website.
These are articles and news updates, to be read as extra to the rest of our site.
Here’s a sneak peak at our public FB page feed where we share factual info as well as fun memes. Join our closed group for advice and to chat to other home educators.
Home education is incredibly diverse—there’s no one "right" way to do it. Some families prefer a structured approach, following a set curriculum similar to traditional schooling but delivered at home. Others embrace "unschooling," where learning is driven by the child’s interests and natural curiosity, without formal lessons. There are also eclectic styles that blend various approaches. Understanding these options can help you find the best fit for your child’s personality and learning needs. Educational Freedom offers detailed explanations of these styles, helping families to make informed choices tailored to their children.
Home education offers an incredible opportunity to customize learning to fit each child’s unique interests, pace, and style. Unlike traditional schooling, home education is not confined by rigid timetables or standardized curriculums. Children can learn outdoors, visit museums, dive into hands-on projects, or explore books on topics they love. This flexibility helps foster not only academic growth but also a lifelong passion for learning. Families can create an environment where curiosity thrives and education is fun and meaningful. For more useful insights and support, visit Educational Freedom’s website, a valuable resource for home educators .
We have started a really massive project but we need your help. This project will be an amazing source of info for all home educators. You can complete just your LA or help us by taking on many. Full explanations and info will be given. We ask only those willing to give a full hour or more of their time offer to help. Thank you.
It’s tempting to recreate school at home — timetables, desks, bells, strict schedules. But home education works best when it embraces flexibility. You can learn on the sofa, in the garden, in the car, at the park, at 9am or 9pm. Learning doesn’t need to look like school to be valid. What’s the most unconventional place your child has learned something?
Science isn’t just experiments with goggles and lab coats. It’s cooking, weather, plants, animals, magnets, shadows, bubbles, and broken appliances waiting to be investigated. Children are natural scientists — they observe, test, question, and repeat. Try inviting your child to notice something today: a pattern, a change, a reaction. Ask what they think is happening. Science begins with curiosity. What’s the coolest science moment you’ve had recently?
We have many decades of hands on Home Education experience between us and many years as a professional support service.
Our team is made up of people from all walks of life, and all styles of Home Education.
We never have, nor will we ever, charge Home Educators a fee to access our website, personal support or anything else.
However, we do have costs such as web hosting, so feel free to donate.
Our aim is that our website contains everything you should need to know.
Beyond that we have a Facebook Page where you can connect with other Home Educators and our amazing admin team. We also have the option to contact us, for those times where you don’t have Facebook.
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