The DfE sent us a copy of the letter the DfE have asked all LAs to send out to home educators. As well as the letter the DfE have sent to LAs.

We have made a video to help explain the changes made via the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act, there will be lots more changes coming via EHE guidance and other legislation/guidance. We will keep you updated via our newsletter.

Real home ed life rarely sits still long enough to be captured perfectly. It moves. It shifts. It’s full of interruptions and tangents.

by Gemma One of the first things that becomes obvious when you step into the home education world is just how different it can look from one family to the next. There isn’t one version of it. No single approach that everyone is quietly following. Some families have a clear structure to their days—books out […]

One question I’m often asked is whether school holidays make a difference to our home education routine. The short answer? Yes… but maybe not in the way people expect. However, like I’ve always said, there is no right or wrong way to home educate your child, so the way we approach the holidays might be […]

One of the things that stands out most in home education is how much of it is shared—not just in terms of learning, but in the experience of growing up together. When children are home, really home, they don’t just cross paths at the edges of the day. They move through it side by side. […]

Case study 1.My EHE person is really friendly, we chat every 3 months. We show her what Bobby has been learning, showing her the workbooks, website logs, projects and photos from days out. He reads to her, tells her all about the family. She stays about an hour and a half, and usually plays a […]

by Gemma One of the things people say to me most often, when they realise we home educate, is some version of, “I couldn’t do that—I’m not a teacher.” I understand it. I probably would have said the same once. There’s this idea that teaching is a very specific skill set, something formal and structured […]

The other kind of masking… Are they sick or paranoid?

By Gemma Keenan When I think back to it now, it doesn’t feel like there was ever a big, dramatic decision to home educate. It wasn’t a moment. It was more a slow, quiet knowing that this was how we wanted to do things. From the very beginning, we were already living in a way […]