Websites about Home Education

[julienoshoes]

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Good places to find out about home based education in the UK are:

Education Otherwise

HE-UK

HEAS

Home Education in the UK

for people EHEing under-8s

Home Education Special Needs
is the website for families who home educate or who are thinking of home educating children with SEN. It is home to the HE Special Needs email support list which is where the very best information and support can be found about home edding children with SEN.
Joyfully Rejoycingis a really good site for autonomous living and learning

AHEDis a campaigning organisation

I missed the brilliant {L=MuddlePuddle]www.muddlepuddle.co.uk[/L] site off the list!

It is especially for familes who home educate children aged 8 and under.

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julieshoes thats great, and helpful, do you know of any good books on the subject. So scared that I can't do this right but would really like to look into it more...

As a newbie to HE, I would like to v humbly add a couple of websites I've found really useful. Both are American based but are used by people all over, and both are geared towards a slightly more structured form of HEing.

Sonlight - a complete HE curriculum, but the best thing is they've got details of all the books they use on their website, so you can pick and choose and get them from cheaper places if you can!

Ambleside Online provides details of a Charlotte Mason education. Everything on this site is FREE, and they provide links to loads of ebooks, so much of the learning material is free also.

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The internet email support lists are the best sources of information about home education, all of the legalities, ways of home educating-structured vs unstructured, what to do if you want your child to take GCSEs etc, IMHO.
Anything and everything you want to know about home education can be found for free there.

There is a home ed support list for everything it seems to me. (There is even a support list for mumsnetters who home educate! )
A list for families with young children, a list for single parents, a list for families with children aged 12+.
There is a list for families home educating children with SEN, one for families who are interested in autonomous home education and one for those who want a more structured home education for their children, where you can find out how to structure and plan your days.
There is a support list for families who want their children to do qualifications such as GCSEs A levels etc. I believe that list will help you find your way through the confusion of how to find exam centres, and which path to follow.
That is in addition to all of the general home education support lists!
On each of these lists you will find families following similar paths and usually someone there will be able to answer your specific question.
Best of all it is freely obtained.

If you choose to use a tutor knowing all of this, because that is what best suits your family, then that is great. However the vast majority of home educators do not-and will offer the benefit of their experience for free to others who are interested.

If anyone wants any more information, please do just ask and we'll do our best to point you in the right direction

this is BRILL thanks everyone!

I found the muddlepuddle site invaluable when I was home-edding dd2. I still go and read the blogs from time to time

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This is great - many thanks!!

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