Home Education Routines and Schedules! love them or hate them everyone is talking about them at this time of year. Why would you want a routine when you home educate? Surely people choose this lifestyle to have freedom from routine? It’s true that stepping away from the traditional schooling system does give a family more…
Colours: they are part of our every day lives and a wonderful topic to introduce to children of all ages. In this post you will find details of a simple lesson plan to help you and your children learn and explore colours. Incoporate this mini unit study into your homeschool schedule or use it at…
One of the first things I needed to relearn when I started to educate my children at home was “what is education?” and what did I believe a “good” education should encompass. I also needed to relearn how an education can be delivered and measured but those are topics for another day. The reason that…
Note: a secular education and a secular home education could be interchangeable terms in this post. We are a secular home educating family. Secular home education refers to the practice of providing education to children at home that is not based on religious or spiritual teachings, it does not mean that the children will not learn about…
The pressure is on! Enroll in the top schools from birth. Move house to the best schools catchment area. Sign up for educational toddler classes and pre-school groups with a focus to get small children “school ready”. Gone are the days of play school and making mud pies. In are the days of early readers…
Some questions many home educators will be asked by their family, friends and complete strangers in the shops include; Is Home Education Legal? Are you allowed to take your kids out of school? Who checks up on you? In this post I will deal with the question; Is Home Education Legal in the UK? Please…
The terms “home education” and “home schooling” are often used interchangeably, but there can be some subtle differences in meaning. It should be remembered that in the UK we are legally required to educate our children, not to provide a school environment, and so you will see me using the term home education on this…