Educational Freedom is a non-profit organisation providing Home Education information and support. Our primary purpose is ensuring all Home Educators have access to FREE information and support. We aim to provide everything you could ever need to know about Home Education.
A great way of ensuring your Home Education journey goes smoothly is to read all of this website. The menu at the top will help you navigate each section.
Making the decision to Home Educate can be daunting. But be assured that there is plenty of support out there! There are lots of families that have been in your situation, and we have supported tens of thousands of them.
Read through our website to learn all about Home Education. Use the menu to navigate through all of our pages especially the WHAT TO DO FIRST page for your country.
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What Maths skills do you use in every day life? I love that with Home Education learning can be done even through play even up to degree levels! Do share below your math skills you learn daily! #ukhomeed #homeeddad #homeedmum #homeedplanning #learningfromhome #homeeducate #homeeducationlife #homeedideas #homeeducationrocks
I’m making plans. What should I buy? Which subscription? How many hours? Should they be doing set work? How do I teach them? STOP!!!! It doesn’t matter how old your child is, just stop. Go out and jump in puddles, have an ice cream, go to the zoo, meet friends and join your local home ed group, visit family, have a holiday, climb trees, watch movies, draw/craft, read together, laugh together. Stop trying to think of school type learning. Home education is not school. Read up on deschooling, it’s a period of time you and your child take to see how an education can happen without being taught, sat to the table, with a workbook etc. It’s time to adjust to being out of the school system. It’s really important you deschool, as well as the kid. It can take months to deschool yourself but it’s better to do it now than in a year when you and the child hate each other and you think home ed failed cos the kid won’t do as you’re telling them An education has to happen from the first day of home education. But that education doesn’t mean school type work. It can be conversation, exploring options and topics online , outings, websites, friends, etc. As you settle in, you’ll pick up on how your child learns, do they read a lot and quietly mull things over, do they have to physically be doing something, do they learn from verbal info rather than written, do they need to write it down/draw it or do they just memorise it? Do they learn in small bursts or like focusing on something for long periods. Do they prefer evenings to mornings. Are they sat up at night self learning or need some guided support during the day? There’s no right or wrong way. But don’t make plans, or pay for anything in those first few weeks, you’ll be wasting your time and money. Ask any old timer and they’ll tell you 2 things ‘I wish I’d dereg’d sooner’ and ‘all my plans went out the window within weeks’. Home education can be fully structured, semi structured, completely child led, or a mix, it will also change as your child and family life changes. If your child is a teen then asking them to consider their future options is a good idea. What do they want to do at 16? Or maybe college at 14. Use their goal as a basis for what they need to do to achieve that. A child who knows they need 5 GCSEs in set subjects is more likely to achieve that than a kid who is told to sit 10 that they’re not interested in. How to educate once you’ve settled in…. Encourage your child to ask questions, remember in school they weren’t allowed to so they need to relearn this skill. Encourage them to find answers for themselves. And critical thinking as to whether the source of info is correct. Encourage artistic expression. Be ready for a discussion on washing the pots to turn into a science experiment, or a maths worksheet to end in a garden replan, or a documentary about climate change resulting in a drive to the coast, or cuddled in bed to turn into a maths quiz, or watching coronation street to turn into questions about the lgbtq+ community. Don’t force your child to stay on topic. Think outside the box, Lego can be used for fractions, baking for reading and writing and maths, bath time for science experiments for floating, knex for engineering. Older kids who are doing GCSEs need to be more syllabus based but there’s many websites with different ways to learn from lessons to fun videos, to work books to hiring a tutor. You don’t have to provide evidence to the LA, a written outline of what you’ve been doing is ok, so your child’s learning does not have to be on paper. But you do need to be able to demonstrate what has been learned if the LA have concerns. This again can be done in writing. The key is ensuring your child can become a productive member of society and that they can achieve what they want/need to. It is VITAL you read our website and learn more about your duty and how home ed can work. Www.Educationalfreedom.Org.Uk And don’t forget to share.
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Our team is made up of people from all walks of life, and all styles of Home Education.
We never have, nor will we ever, charge Home Educators a fee to access our website, personal support or anything else.
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Our aim is that our website contains everything you should need to know.
Beyond that we have a Facebook Page where you can connect with other Home Educators and our amazing admin team. We also have the option to contact us, for those times where you don’t have Facebook.
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