Home Education Matters

Going from home education to college

Today's episode is discussing the transition from home education to college (16-18) and the challenges, opportunities and social dramas it involves. If you would like to find out more about Education Brothers (we receive no money for this promotion - we just really like what they do!), check them out here: https://www.educationbrothers.co.uk/ And remember to like, subscribe, leave a comment, join our various and random social media channels and generally share the podcast love!

Covering the Primary Maths Curriculum - in fun ways!

Dave Bradbeer guides us on a fun (yes fun!) ride through the early years and primary maths curriculum. Packed full of practical ways to cover the maths syllabus up to Key Stage 3, this podcast is full of ideas for how to engage your child with maths learning in a way that focuses on engagement, real life understanding and enjoyment. With Dave Bradbeer - I am a learning coach, working with parents and children to help deliver Maths. For home educating parents, I offer assistance with developing a curriculum that is based on the needs and interests of the child. - Dave's Website [https://the-learning-coach.co.uk/]- Dave's Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583644415262]

My Unschooling Journey with Alice Khimasia

We are joined by Alice Khimasia who talks us through her wonderful, challenging, exciting, liberating unschooling route! Home educating your children is, as Alice describes, an inherently counter cultural act. Choosing to unschool them is a step even further away from the norm, bringing with it joys and challenges on the way. It's a beautiful and thoughtful discussion on one woman's experience of unschooling her children. With Alice Khimasia - Alice has been unschooling her four sons since 2010, sharing their journey through Organic Education. A former school refuser, she advocates for learner-centered environments that prioritize safety, consent, and wellbeing. Her work has been featured in a BBC documentary, The Guardian, The Times, and a 2016 TEDx talk. - Alice's Website [https://organic-education.co.uk/]- Alice on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@khimasiafamily]

A Discussion on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

It's a topical one this week and so we've dashed out a fun and at times pretty controversial episode on the new bill. It starts out restrained and then descends into unexpected rants. What's the conclusion? It's time to both boss up and settle down. To settle down: Join the friendly little community we've established! Here is the link to join (did we mention it's free?): https://www.skool.com/home-education-uk-1347/about To boss up: check out some of these places to get your inner activist going ... The bill - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909 A summary - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/695e578a8ab0677c14afdfc9/childrens_wellbeing_and_schools_bill_2024_policy_summary_notes.pdf An article - https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/news-and-blogs/the-childrens-wellbeing-and-school-act-passes-into-law/ The OU survey - https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/openuniversity/home-education-futures The petition - https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/756811 Some of the much maligned groups we mentioned! - https://www.educationotherwise.org/ https://educationalfreedom.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/hefa2021/ And two great sites from people working tirelessly to make a difference in home ed: https://doingeducationdifferently.co.uk/ https://edyourself.org/

Learning with Lego! Covering the curriculum in fun and interesting ways

Today's episode is a whistle stop tour through the main curriculum subjects and how you can use Lego in your home to help you engage your child and allow them to explore the curriculum in fun and interesting ways! With Jo (Joanne) Revie- Jo is mum to four young people who she has home educated since their pre-school years, with her Husband Gavin she has a home-based tuition and educational consultancy business, where they offer educational support and activities for a wide age range of students. In addition to facilitating arts and craft activities for school-aged students, Jo is also interested in supporting home-based early years education. - Jo (Joanne)'s Website [https://www.bezalel-education.co.uk/blog]- Jo (Joanne)'s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574210446160] - Jo (Joanne) on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@bezalel-education/playlists] This podcast is a labour of love, and time and energy and commitment and lots of coffee! It really helps us if you can follow us on our social media channels and comment to let us know if you enjoyed the episode, what you'd like to see more / less of and generally come and say hi! Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/homeeducationmatters/] - TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@home.education.ma] - FB page [https://www.facebook.com/homeeducationmatters] - Our Private FB group [https://www.facebook.com/groups/homeeducationmatters]