Home Education Matters

Ultimate Exam Hacks Guide - with Chetana Greenwood

Exams in the UK are all about hoop jumping. And there's nothing home educators like less than pointless bureaucratic hoop jumping! But don't worry. We've got the ultimate guide to hack exams and make them as seamless and easy as you dare. From Environmental Management to Edexcel English Language, we've got some amazing hacks to get you through your exams.
 
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It’s Times Tables Tastic! or making maths fun with Jemma Zoe Smith

Today I'm chatting with Jemma about how best to help your child at home with maths. Maths is all about balance ... no, not balancing equations but learning how to balance rote learning with understanding, fun with efficiency, and freedom with repetition. Join us and learn some great methods to facilitate your child's maths as part of your home educating journey.
 
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Unschooling with Heidi Steel

Check out our in depth chat with unschooling expert Heidi Steel. It's a fascinating insight into this child led approach to education, detailing both the challenges and the benefits of partnering with your child to choose how, what, when, where, what and why they learn.
 
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Psychology and Sociology for home educators with Melissa Deal

Home educating? Why stick to the usual schooly curriculum subjects? These two subjects are 100% exam assessed with fascinating and relevant content for our home schooled / home educated teens, and so are fabulous options for home educators wanting to sit GCSEs as external candidates. 
 
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New home educating parents discuss their first three months ’on the job’.

If you're on the fence about withdrawing your child, this might be the episode for you. Join Diane and Andy as they discuss the challenges they faced within the school system, the difficult decision they took to withdraw their daughter and how their first three months has gone as home educators. They frankly and honestly discuss both the challenge and the privilege of being able to home educate their daughter.
 
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Maths for home educators with Veronika Skye

Today I'm chatting with maths expert, Veronika. We discuss the best ways to facilitate, teach and sit maths as a home educator / home schooler. It's a fascinating chat ranging from creating a love of learning, how to get through the hard bits of maths learning, engaging a reluctant learner and how to sit maths exams. Love maths? Me neither, but you might after this podcast!
 
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Autonomous Parenting with Sarah Beale

Autonomous parenting? Partnership parenting? Unschooling? Radical unschooling? Come and join Sarah and I as we chat all things autonomy, respect, tolerance and red lines. Some ideas are challenging, and some controversial, but they're all fascinating! Check out this super fun rollercoaster of a chat through the world of free flowing home education.
 
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Home educators diving into the New Year together!

Join Diane and I recapping some of our highlights (and lowlights!) of 2022 as home educating / home schooling families, and looking ahead to our goals and New Year resolutions for 2023. 
 
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Mini Series - A Day in the Life with Rosa

For our final episode following a typical home education day, Diane chats to Rosa. Removed from school a few months ago, they discuss the problems they encountered at her secondary school and the impact it had on them all. But don't worry, it has a happy ending!
 
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Mini Series - A Day in the Life with Amanda

Today I am chatting with Amanda, a home educator for the last 14 years, who is now guiding her teens through their exam years, college and into university. We also discuss home education successes, independent thinking children and why sometimes you just need to set up your own meet ups.
 
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