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
Reading and writing are the two most important skills to teach a child who is learning how to learn and the skills are interconnected. A child who reads, or is read to, a lot will find writing easier simply because there’s less to learn: passive absorption of language structure, vocabulary and word patterns genuinely helps…
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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 A. A. Milne, Roald Dahl*, and Khaled Hosseini in the same row,…
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Translations as a Language Learning Tool
Translations are one of the most effective language learning tools you can add into a home-ed language curriculum