Home-Ed Poetry
Reading poetry is a fantastic way for pupils to develop reading-aloud skills and reading fluency. As an additional benefit to the home educator, lots of poems are short, making it...
How many strings does a piano have?
Using a kid's questions to drive lessons is an easy way to get them engaged with learning. There's no such thing as a silly question and you never know what path of learning one answer might lead them on.
Music in a Home-Ed Classroom
Music is a powerful resource for home-educators. Music can be taught as a subject, used as a teaching aid or act as a lesson resource.
The Bayeux Tapestry and Reading Museum
I stumbled across Reading Museum when googling Bayeux Tapestry resources. The depth of information provided makes the exhibits in the online museum perhaps more accessible than a visit to the...
Gardening as part of a curriculum
Gardening is a brilliant subject to include in a homeschool curriculum (rocks/soil composition/photosynthesis/etc)
Visiting Museums from Home
Museums provide fantastic online resources for learning, whether it’s taking a virtual school trip or using the museum’s resources to create and support home-ed lessons. Thanks to a proactive move...
Lesson Planning: Joy of Museums
Joy of Museums isn’t just a great site for finding museums to visit as virtual school trips, it’s a fantastic homeschool resource. The website fantastic pages like this Ancient and...
The National History Museum (London)
The website of the London National History Museum is an incredible resource for home educators. It’s a website that’s as easy to navigate around as a museum is to walk...
What to include in a school project?
Setting project-based school work allows home educators to give home-ed pupils open-ended studies of learning: A long-term unit study.
Home-Ed Study Weeks
Study weeks are similar to the idea of 'deschooling'; the process of taking a break from formalised teaching/learning. Deschooling is intended to re-spark a joy for learning and study weeks work the same.