by Gemma A lot of conversations around home education and “socialisation” end up revolving around groups. Meet a fellow home educator online or in real life and they’ll ask how many groups your child goes to. Which home ed meet-ups, clubs, sports, classes, or forest schools they go to, how many groups a week, how […]

While you’re reading this, we are sitting in the car on a loooonnnggg car journey. I have a total phobia of flying so if we want to go to abroad for the most part we need to drive. When mentioning that we’re heading off three weeks on holiday aghast school friends wanted to know how […]

Of all the subjects that we’ve struggle with in our home education journey Maths was the worse. Maths was the one which for the first couples of years that was a slog. We learned through play and follow my child’s interest but Maths? It didn’t naturally come up in many of the subjects we studied […]

A popular quote about books is: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” This quote, often attributed to Dr. Seuss, highlights the fun and power of reading to expand knowledge and open up new possibilities. I am huge believer in this […]