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Category: Home Education
What does home education look like without a school style timetable?
When people start to home educate they often start to try to reproduce a school day and education broken down into subjects and topics – that’s what we are told education looks like after all. However, it’s not the only way to do it, and for many people it’s very much not the best way…
Not back to school 2025 edition
It’s everywhere isn’t it? Back to school adverts, uniform bundles in the middle of Lidl, discounts on stationery. Some families are absolutely thrilled – some kids are ready for the routine to start up, and want out of the house and to be back with their mates, and maybe schoolwork isn’t their favourite activity, but…
Using the summer to deschool
Right about now, there’s a lot of families breathing easy again. The pressure is off. There’s no need to make it to the school gates, in uniform, with all the right things at the right time. And as they breathe, a few families will be starting to wonder why they put themselves through this. Whether…
How home education looks for us in 2025
I have been home educating, on and off for over 20 years now. That feels like a bit of a milestone that swung by without me even noticing. We’ve made changes over the years, obviously, and home education in 2025 is pretty different to when we got started way back in 2003. Back then, if…
The Playful Path to Development: Encouraging Growth through Outdoor Toys in Learning
Introduction: The Unending Joy of Play Children’s play is a universe of exploration, discovery, and learning. It’s a joyous journey that contributes significantly to their cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth. The potential of outdoor play is vast and can be maximised with playful aids like a trampoline or a mud kitchen, transforming our gardens…
Day two of learning to code with Scratch and Tigerboy.
Yesterday we got started on working our way through a Scratch tutorial book I picked up from the local library for sale shelf, How to code in 10 easy lessons. Today we’ve written a buzzer game. You use the arrow keys to turn your arrow around, and the space key to move. In mine anyway:…
Minecraft for good
Have set up a tiltify so that I can fundraise for Battersea while figuring out minecraft (which I keep typing as micecraft) and streaming. There’s not much there yet, but coming soon… donate to Minecraft for the confused First things first, you have to buy minecraft. Beware, there are multiple versions. I’m reliably told that…
BBC micro:bit from PiHut – a great #HomeEducation resource
Disclosure: The product was provided free for review. It’s all about tech these days, and while knowing how to use it is one thing, knowing how to program it is a whole other aspect. I admit to having a slight head start in this area, as an ex programmer, but the way I learnt to…
Why we home educate in the holidays
I tweeted the other day about how Tigerboy was enjoying a trial on Doodlemaths and someone replied to ask if that meant we didn’t have holidays. And the honest answer is, we don’t, really. Over the years, we’ve drifted from a more structured home education approach with some very obvious curriculum related box ticking, to…
Skating, friends and a doodlesome evening
First Tuesday of the month meeting, for the first time in a while (it doesn’t run in school holidays, and got caught out in September by inset days). Small declined on the grounds that none of his specific friends were going today, so I was able to offer a lift to one of Smallest’s friends,…
