Home Education Matters

Have you removed your child from a traumatic school experience?Do you want to know how to heal your child but still support their learning at home?Worried about how to allow recovery time for your child whilst still doing enough to keep your Local Authority team happy?Struggling to re-engage your child with their learning?Today I talk to Karen Bonthron who works with the LA to support home educated children and it's a fascinating discussion full of advice on re-engaging your child with their learning journey.[This podcast is very much a labour of love, but it's also both a costly and time consuming process ... if you'd like to Buy Me a Coffee - no obligation at all! - you can do so here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HomeEducation]

Exams in the UK are all about hoop jumping. And there's nothing home educators like less than pointless bureaucratic hoop jumping! But don't worry. We've got the ultimate guide to hack the system and make exams as seamless and easy as you dare. From Environmental Management to Edexcel English Language and beyond, we've got some amazing hacks to get you through exams.

Today I'm chatting with Jemma about how best to help your child at home with maths. Maths is all about balance ... no, not balancing equations but learning how to balance rote learning with understanding, fun with efficiency, and freedom with repetition. Join us and learn some great methods to facilitate your child's maths as part of your home educating journey.

Check out our in depth chat with unschooling expert Heidi Steel. It's a fascinating insight into this child led approach to education, detailing both the challenges and the benefits of partnering with your child to choose how, what, when, where, what and why they learn.

Home educating? Why stick to the usual schooly curriculum subjects? These two subjects are 100% exam assessed with fascinating and relevant content for our home schooled / home educated teens, and so are fabulous options for home educators wanting to sit GCSEs as external candidates.

Autonomous parenting? Partnership parenting? Unschooling? Radical unschooling? Come and join Sarah and I as we chat all things autonomy, respect, tolerance and red lines. Some ideas are challenging, and some controversial, but they're all fascinating! Check out this super fun rollercoaster of a chat through the world of free flowing home education.

Join Diane and I recapping some of our highlights (and lowlights!) of 2022 as home educating / home schooling families, and looking ahead to our goals and New Year resolutions for 2023.

For our final episode following a typical home education day, Diane chats to Rosa. Removed from school a few months ago, they discuss the problems they encountered at her secondary school and the impact it had on them all. But don't worry, it has a happy ending!

Today I am chatting with Amanda, a home educator for the last 14 years, who is now guiding her teens through their exam years, college and into university. We also discuss home education successes, independent thinking children and why sometimes you just need to set up your own meet ups.

Today, I'm joined by my 14 year old home educated child, Kerenza, and we discuss her typical day, staggering her exams, studying with dyslexia and the many benefits of being home educated.

For today's Day in the Life series, I'm talking with Greg who came to home schooling during coronavirus. He has now developed a home education journey which embraces nature, learning in every day activities and the power of letting your child follow their passions.

Today I'm talking to Miriam, a home educating mother of four who was also home educated herself as a child. We chat about her experience of being home educated, her typical day as a structured home educator and how personality affects your home education style.

Day three of our Day in the Life series and I chat with Xavier, my very own home educated 16 year old, studying for A levels from home. Join us chatting about how to organise study time, being home educated all the way through and what work is anyway!

Our second episode meets Beckie, who was home educated herself and is now home educating her own children. Find out what her typical day looks like in this second Day in the Life episode.

Our first episode of a mini series where we chat with another home educator about what their typical day looks like and how they became a home educating family.Today we have Wesley, who chose to home educate his son after feeling let down by the school system. And hasn't looked back since!

Join Nat and I discussing the top tips and advice for approaching Modern Foreign Languages as a home educating / home schooling family. We look at: revision sitesbuilding fluencyexam changesadvice for tackling the speaking and listening sections of the GCSEand lots more!

Join Diane and I as we discuss home educating through the holidays, having a rhythm to your days and whether Christmas is a time to hide in a cave or embrace the natural order of having your favourite playgrounds engulfed by holidaying children. We'll let you decide!

Join us talking to Iram Malik about all things exam related when you home educate / homeschool your child. Whether it's: choosing your exam centreIGCSEs vs GCSEsexam boardsspecifications and much more ... Wondering where to start? We've got you covered in this bumper episode :)

It's not always easy to make a decision that goes against the norm. But don't worry, we've got your backs! Today Diane and I chat about what to do when your friends or even your family think you're mad to be home educating your child. How to deal with these disagreements, when and how to engage and what it really says about everyone involved.

Join me and Lynn as we discuss all the amazing ways you can support your home ed child in their love of history. We chat about retaining a love of the subject whilst effectively prepping for History GCSE and IGCSE. Comparing the different exam boards, discussing exam techniques and tips for revision - everything you ever wanted to know about History for Home Educators!

Join us chatting to Helen Royston, a home educator with 30+ years of experience, guiding you through those early days in home education / home schooling in the UK. If you've questions about home education, they'll be answered in this podcast (promise!).

Join us as we discuss our journeys so far in home education, how we collapsed into it and how we are making it work for us! We'll also be telling you what episodes we have coming up on Home Education Matters in the next few weeks.