Everything on this page is free. Some of it took us years to work out — how to document an education without drowning in paperwork, how to plan so we know we’re covering enough, how to teach without feeling like a teacher. We’ve put it into templates and guides so you don’t have to start from scratch.
Download whatever’s useful. Leave the rest.
Getting Started
The first few steps — deregistration, deschooling, working out how your child actually learns. Do these before you think about curriculum.
Deregistration Pack
You don’t need permission to home-educate — you just need to notify the school. This pack gives you the letter template, the legal context, and what to expect afterwards.
Evidence of Education Pack
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will introduce new documentation requirements, expected late 2026. This pack includes a blank template and a fully completed example — so you can see what a finished report looks like before you write your own.
Getting to Know Your Learner
Before curriculum, before timetables — this. A short guide to working out how your child actually learns, so you’re building around them rather than guessing.
Your First Week of Home Education
The temptation is to over-plan. This guide helps you resist it — and gives you a simple, low-pressure framework for the first week that actually works.
Deschooling Guide
If your child has just left school, jumping straight into home education rarely goes well. This guide explains what deschooling is, how long it takes, and what to do (and not do) while they’re recalibrating.
Planning & organising
How to build a home education that covers enough without turning into school. Frameworks and templates for the structural side of things.
Academic Building Blocks Framework
Most home-ed resources assume age equals level. This framework doesn’t. It helps you work out what your child actually needs next — regardless of where they “should” be.
A NEED/WANT Framework for Curriculum Planning
A simple two-column framework that cuts through curriculum overwhelm. What does your child need to learn? What do they want to learn? Start there.
A Home Education Contract
Three versions — whimsical, simple, and aggressively formal (for teens who appreciate a touch of drama). Getting your child to sign something changes the dynamic more than you’d expect.
Weekly Folders System
Prep once, hand over the folder, step back. This system builds independence gradually and takes the daily “what are we doing today” question off the table.
Home-Ed Daily Checklist
One page. Everything that needs to happen today. Useful for children who need to see the shape of the day before they can settle into it.
SEN Friendly Checklist
Home education works well for children with SEN — but the structure needs to be right. This guide covers how to build a day that works with your child’s needs rather than around them.
Teaching & lesson planning
The practical tools — for planning individual lessons, tracking reading, running a study week, and having conversations that do the work of a lesson.
Simple Lesson Planner
One page per lesson. No complicated columns or learning objective boxes. Just enough structure to make the lesson work.
Conversational Curriculum
A good conversation can do the work of a lesson — if you know how to lead one. This guide gives you the method, the prompts, and worked examples across different subjects and ages.
Reading tracker
Three columns: assigned reading, their own choices, read-alouds. Simple enough to actually use.
Study weeks
Not a holiday, not a school week. Study weeks are for stepping back, following curiosity, and coming back to the timetable with fresh energy. This guide covers how to make them work for both of you.
