Making Homeschool Life a Little Easier
Sarah chats to home school families and professionals, drawing on her own experience as a home school mum and ex headteacher. If there’s a topic you’d like to see discussed please contact us [email protected]
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- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 35
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
UK Government Inquiry Into Home Education
In this podcast I share my response to the government inquiry in the hope that it will spur many more to respond. A lot of people I have spoken to haven't even heard about this inquiry. It is really …
The Case for Home Schooling
Anna, an ex secondary teacher, freelance writer and homeschool mum to 3 talks about her new book and life as a homeschool mum.
Twitter, Not the Schoo…
The Journey Into Unschooling
Tom & Emily share their first year of homeschooling. The highs and the lows and how they went from formal homeschooling to unschooling.
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Books
Sir Ken Robinson - You, Your Child …
Making the Decision to Homeschool
Following requests from listeners about processing the decision to homeschool. Shelley shares her story about her recent journey towards a better way forward for her family.
Schooling at Home
Homegrown_Learning Instagra…
Supporting your child’s journey from home school to school, or the vice versa
Children return to school for a great many reasons. In this podcast Henry and Walter from Oppidan Education explore some of the things that you may want to consider should you be in this situation. I…
What is home schooling like for young people?
Lots of people have asked me what home schooling is like for young people. They expressed their fears around whether they can help their child learn, be happy and grow in confidence. As soon as I met…
The importance of creativity for our young people
The importance of creativity and things we can do at home to help our children thrive.
Useful links
Lion lady/man https://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-lion-man-an-ice-age-masterpiece/
The tongue of the…
Sensory Processing
This podcast looks at the real issues for schools supporting children with sensory processing preferences or disorder and why home schooling can help these children.
The Out of Sync Child by Carol Kr…
Socialising and Home Schooling
It is one of the aspects of home educating that people most worry about when deciding whether or not to home school. This podcast explores some of those myths and also looks at the real social experi…
Why Are So Many Families And Professionals Leaving The Education System?
A look into what has happened to the system recently and why it is forcing families, teachers and leaders to leave the system. Helpful to home educators facing opposition from friends or family!
Unschooling
What is unschooling, where does it come from, what does it look like and why does it work for so many people?
Links:
Ted talks
Racheous Blog
Happiness is here Blog
Lulastic and the hippy shake Blog
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Deschooling
What does it mean, why is it useful at the beginning of your home educating journey and how do you do it?
Links:
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
Growing Without Schooling by John Holt
https://www.…
Can Anyone Home Educate?
With 20 years in education people think I am well placed to teach my children, but the reality is that anyone can do it!
Links:
Julie Bogart https://thebravelearner.com/#about
Intro Track 1
Happy, J…
Home Educating Children With Additional Needs
Many families are opting to home educate children with additional needs as the system fails to meet the needs of the child. One mum shares her story about why it works for her.