Category Archives: Rationale

New year, new vision

Two posts in one day! After something of a reading famine (unless it was a baby book!) during my pregnancy with Carys, I have recently started to emerge from my ‘baby bubble’ and picked up books again. I’ve been reading … Continue reading

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Educational influences

In making our decision about home education, we’ve inevitably spent many hours researching and reading about different educational philosophies and methodologies.  One of the things that impresses me the most about HE is the different routes people can take, from … Continue reading

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Why we home educate

I suppose the natural starting point for a blog on this topic is to answer this question.  According to the 1996 education act in England and Wales, the responsibility for educating children ‘in school or otherwise’, lies with the parents.  … Continue reading

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