Where to start with homeschooling?

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I'm looking at homeschooling my two boys as we have a very limited choice of schools here and I'm not happy with the quality of any of them.
However, I'm quite overwhelmed and I'm not sure where to start with it all.
My eldest is 2.5yo so I have a little while to get my head around everything but I want to be ready and well organised by the time he is of school age.

If you home school how did you begin to plan for it?
Is there anything you wish you'd know earlier or done differently?

At this age -
Research the law
Research different educational theories and approaches (for example I always preferred US resources at early primary level, in my opinion they do a much better job of slowly building the basics and creating a good foundation)
Join local home ed groups and start building a support network.

Do not -
buy resources, seriously it is so easy to fill your cupboards with resources that you think will be useful that you end up never touching.
have too firm an idea of the theory/plan you want. Home ed is nothing like teaching a school class it is more an extension of regular parenting and just like everything else to do with parenting there is no manual and you have to find your own way through doing what works best for your children.

itsstillgood is spot on. You don't need a firm plan from day one.

(In fact there is no "day one" if you home educate from the start. You gradually introduce things as you feel each child is ready and interested, or as opportunities arise. You are already educating your children now. The notion of education beginning at a! a specific age is an artefact of the school system. In the wider world, education is lifelong.)

Your ideas will certainly evolve throughout the entire time you home educate. Of course it is extremely useful to look around at what others are doing and consider how you might tackle the job. But I'd encourage you to embrace experimentation as a necessary part of home educating.

I think home education is very like parenting in general. Before your children were born, you probably had all sorts of ideas about how you would parent a two year old. No doubt some of that has panned out as you intended, but much of it hasn't. Apart from anything else, back then you hadn't met this particular two year old and couldn't have predicted what they would neef.

Maybe online schools? Interhigh and Cambridge Online seem to be popular here.