The bill that does not live up to its name. We always encourage everyone to do their own research and fact check. Anyone can read the latest bill wording and check what stage of the process it is at. This bill impacts every child through the consistent identifier (clause 4). It also impacts families where […]

Is it possible? Yes! 100% Every one of our owners works and home educates or has done in the past. It’s not always easy but for me, after 8 years we have an amazing education/home/work life. Remember, your child is now learning one on one, they have no targets they need to complete, exams can […]

Hello everyone. A theme has surfaced recently through a few TikTok reels where home-educated teens share feelings of loneliness. While this is not the experience for every teen—and we all know social media captures only a fragment—it does highlight something worth paying attention to. For those outside the home education community—including local authority teams—videos like […]

Written by Stacey, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is a specific autistic profile. It doesn’t officially exist – you won’t find it in either of the diagnostic manuals used to formally identify neurodivergence. Some NHS boards recognise and diagnose it, others don’t. Many people are misdiagnosed with Oppositional Defiance Disorder or not diagnosed with any form […]

Here’s a copy of the home education newsletter sent out this August And here is a copy of the newsletter sent to Local Authorities this month.

Hey there, home educator! You’ve probably seen a lot on social media about home education – tips on deregistering, advice about the Local Authority (LA), lessons, subscriptions to apps, ‘how to’s’, offers of access to discounts and lots of ‘we bought this resource, so should you’. Some of it may seem reliable, even helpful, but […]

This Friday I’m chatting science! During lockdown many kids struggled with learning subjects at home. One of the greatest events we discovered was watching the Royal Society perform experiments that could be created at home. It transformed my eldest view on science and he started to understand theories a lot more. With the heat this […]

Our home ed days have changed dramatically since we first started. As I gained confidence in what I was doing and my son gained confidence in what he was learning our days shifted to a more relaxed approach. Now he is 15 a lot of his learning is self led ready to start a course […]

Home education for me was not really planned. It was a knee jerk reaction to lack of support and lack of understanding of my sons SEN (dyslexia) and school anxiety. I whipped him one morning when I couldn’t face the tears and struggles to get him into school anymore. Then suddenly though “Umm what do […]