Your Homeschool Space: What It Needs to Be (And What It Doesn’t)
Your homeschool space doesn’t need to look like a classroom. Here’s what it actually needs — including how to adapt it for neurodiverse learners.
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How to Teach Writing at Home
The stages below are organised by level, not age. Some children move through them quickly; others spend a long time at one stage before the next one clicks. Neither is a problem. If you’re not sure where your child is, start at the level that feels slightly too easy — confidence built on solid ground…
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Tips for Left-Handed Homeschoolers
Left-handed learners often find writing more of a struggle than right-handed peers. Holding a pencil and writing can be uncomfortable, words smudge easier and it can be hard for learners to read what they’re writing as their hand covers the words. A little bit of practice and a few tweaks to how they write can…
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How We Actually Use AI in Our Homeschool
If your children use Duolingo, Khan Academy, or Reading Eggs, they’re already using AI. The adaptive learning that makes those platforms useful — the way they adjust difficulty, repeat what isn’t sticking, move on when it is — that’s AI doing what it does well: responding to the individual in front of it, customising the…
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Teaching Your Teenager to Write AI Prompts (And Why It’s Worth Doing Properly)
AI prompt writing is one of the first AI skills to teach your teenagers: here’s how we do it.
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Teaching Coding at Home: Where to Start and How to Progress
You don’t need to know how to code to start teaching it. Here’s a practical guide to computer literacy and coding in home-ed, from the basics upward.
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Grab-and-Go Lessons
A grab-and-go lesson is just that.. a lesson you don’t need to think about because it’s ready to be picked up and learnt; lessons that can act as a filler activity or a complete lesson; be completed independently or with minimal teacher input. Putting together resources that anyone can supervise because the lessons don’t need…
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Creating a Passive-Learning Environment
Learning doesn’t only happen during lessons. Here’s how to set up your home so that the hours outside school are doing some of the work too.
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How to Raise a Reader (Without Making Reading Feel Like School)
There’s a C.S. Lewis quote I’ve been known to use as justification for my reading choices: “A children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is a bad children’s story.” I stand by this entirely, and it explains why our home-ed shelves hold Dickens and Enid Blyton in the same row, why we’ll read Wilbur…
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Typing Can Make Writing Easier
and it’s not the lazy option. One of our home learners was consistently enthusiastic going into lessons and consistently deflated coming out of them. He knew the material — you could tell from conversations, from the way he’d explain things back, from the questions he asked. What he couldn’t do was put it onto paper…