As a home educating family, there are certain key elements to our weekly routine…one of my favourites is without doubt our weekly poetry tea time. We introduced a poetry tea time into our weekly home …

Some parents may question when the best time is for their child to learn to play the guitar. While there is no definitive answer, and sometimes people start learning in adulthood, there are signs, and …

So…home educating through a pandemic, when the rest of the country and most of the world is suddenly home schooling too…that’s been…interesting! I think it’s fair to say that long-term home educators have been somewhat …

I can hardly believe that we’re just weeks away from September…since the UK went into lockdown in March it almost feels as though the world has pressed pause, and life has sort of just floated around …

How It All Began This January saw the 2 year anniversary of the day I finally bit the bullet and sent a letter to my son’s headteacher, requesting that his name be removed from the …

Well it’s been a fair old while that we’ve been stuck in lockdown here in the UK, and I have to admit – I am starting to run out of ideas for keeping these three …

I’ve written a fair few posts on the subject of teaching children at home since we became home educators 2 years ago, but none of them seem fitting for the situation that the vast majority …