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Our bloggers are experts in education, home education specialists and thought leaders. You’ll also regularly hear from members of our team.

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Giving myself up for the sake of my children?

Several years ago, a friend of mine was considering home education for her eldest son who was 13 years old. Up to that point, her three boys had all been educated at school and she was a stay at home mum who enjoyed various hobbies, meeting with friends, and...

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Sep 23, 2022

Sian Lowe0

“But where will the whiteboard go?!” Moving from school education to home education

Matt and I are adoptive parents to three wonderful daughters all of whom, if they were in school, would be in secondary education. But they're not in school. Our story is a familiar one of initially buying into the traditional way of education by entrusting our...

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Jul 15, 2022

Matthew Harris0

A Working Mum and a Home-educating Dad – How We Make It Work

My wife and I are not ‘normal’. Amongst our peers and our family members we are the outliers, the ones that have chosen a slightly different ‘lifestyle path’ to everyone else. For a start, we are home-educating, but you’ve probably guessed that already. Nicola is,...

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Jun 16, 2022

Jo Sweetland0

Community

The word community evokes different emotions. For some the thought of ‘community’ brings up warm sentiments, for some their experience has been negative and at times, painful. With such a broad understanding of community interwoven with a myriad of personal...

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May 19, 2022

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The start of a learning adventure

Guest Blog Post by Fabienne Vailes On 17th January 2022, we started our journey and adventure into home education and officially de-registered our son from secondary school. He is 14. We initially described it as jumping out of the plane! 10 weeks into this new...

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Apr 13, 2022

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Journeying in Freedom

Guest Blog Post by Stacey Piercey I can remember the moment we decided to homeschool our three boys. It was late June 2009. I had returned home from picking up my oldest attending kindergarten at his art-centered charter school. I relayed the scene to my husband....

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Mar 14, 2022

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The difference between learning and school

Guest Blog post by Rebecca Chambers of R.I.S.E. Academy* Learning is definitely a lifelong journey and where I find myself today, I could not even have imagined five years ago. Until the global lockdown I was a teacher in the public education system in Ottawa,...

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Feb 18, 2022

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Keeping the Big Picture in Mind: Part 2

In Part 1, I explored the importance of priorities and motivators in our home education approach, and cannot stress enough what a hugely positive impact it can have on you and your family if you take the time to work through these together. Now we will look at...

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Jan 24, 2022