Home Education Matters

In this episode, we talk to Emily who is a home educating mum of three with autism and adhd, whose children are all also neurodivergent. What emerges is a safeguarding issue - but no, not the usual rhetoric around home education and registers. Here school was the safeguarding issue for Emily's child and home education is the place of care and freedom.

With Emily Fae - Emily is a home educating mum of 3. As a late diagnosed neurodive...

Today's podcast looks at a common parenting struggle through the eyes of home education. There are always times when we find ourselves in the eye of a storm, navigating overwhelm, tantrums, fury and meltdowns in our home (and that's just us!).

Home education can magnify these moments as you spend so much more time together but it also offers great scope to work through these moments successfully together without external interferen...

Home educating can be a lonely journey and this is often even more so when you are doing it as a single parent. And yes, there are positives (and we get to these, don't worry!) but Tamsin and I are also here to talk about the difficult times and particular challenges to home educating as the lone parent in the house.

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Today I am joined again by Michele Holmes from the Home School Directive and we talk about how to add dual enrollment credits onto your High School Diploma transcript to help with university entrance to the UK or worldwide universities.

This is an amazing route for students who don't want to take A levels, the SAT exam or the AP (Advanced Placement) exams. Instead, your home ed child can study courses from the first year of univers...

It's my final episode as your host (but not of the show!) and I recorded this interview with Karem way back in Spring but, as I was recording it, knew I wanted to sign out with this podcast, so have held it back all this time. It was a tour de force of patience!

Karem and I discuss the importance of raising politically and philosophically engaged children and how home education is the perfect environment for these subjects. We talk ...

What a fascinating podcast we have today as I am joined by Lisa and Sam, visual stress assessors, to guide us through this much neglected condition. 

We look at what it is, what the symptoms might be and how to support your child (or yourself!) if you think they might have visual stress. 

Enjoy the show and do share it around with anyone who you think might be experiencing this condition!

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In today's podcast I chat with some parents whose children have moved on from home education and away from home. Home education can be a particularly immersive way of parenting (for good and for bad!) and it can be a difficult adjustment to move from that intensity and connection to a quieter home when the children leave for college or work. 

In this podcast we discover the joys, losses and surprises of an empty nest and how we...

It was great to have Cheryl on to talk us through the process of giving information when requested to the local authority, what most of us think of as 'writing the annual report' (which is a bit of a misnomer as will be revealed in the podcast!).

Cheryl guides us through:

• When and whether to respond
• The ways to respond
• What to include
• What not to put in
• Frequency
• Issues
• Communication

And so much more!

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Join Amy and I as we make our way through the home education rules and regulations, as they shift and change, in Wales.

We talk about:

• Deregistration
• Reports 
• Exams
• Additional Learning Needs
• Changing government legislation / statutory guidance

It's a complicated and very quickly changing environment but involves changes that everyone in home education needs to be aware of, whether you're in Wales or not. A register brou...

Join Emma, busy home educating mum of 7, to discuss home educating in Scotland and how it differs from other parts of the UK.

Together, Emma and I discuss deregistration, LA checks and reports, as well as exams and home educating children with additional needs. 

If you enjoy the show, do like and subscribe or leave a comment, wherever you are listening to us and share it around with any of your home ed friends.

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Today's podcast looks at making that transition from home education to university and I am joined by Ossie, a recent graduate from Cambridge who pit stops with us before going on to do his Masters. 

We talk about making that move from autonomous home education to the more structured university life, as well as talking about workloads, perception of home education and, of course, 'socialisation'!

This podcast is about giving some...

Fancy a maths GCSE that you can split into parts and retake at your leisure? Yeah, me too! 

In this podcast, we talk about the new modular maths exam at GCSE level and discuss its benefits and disadvantages, as well as what to expect and how to book onto it.

Next week's podcast is a look at the university experience from a home educated person's perspective so stay tuned for that.

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Today's episode is a personal story from Martine who shares her experience of witnessing her son's traumatic school journey and then embarking on the healing journey of home education.

Martine's story is both shocking and emotional, and yet from it her and her family have repaired themselves and come out the other side stronger and wiser.

* This episode contains some distressing descriptions and therefore if you or your child have ex...