Home Ed

Many people have been asking what the Labour Party’s stance on Home Education is, and are we just going to implement the Badman review.  I can categorically say that the Labour Party…

It’s that time of year where everyone is signing their children up to schools and joining the education machine.  However, many people don’t realise that there is another option, and…

Even though we have been home educating for quite a while, we had never actually registered with the Local Authority, and now that I’m a councillor and wanting to help…

Having just heard that the Government is looking at doing yet more testing at primary level is really making my blood boil.  Not so much about the test itself (which…

      There is one Conservative MP who a lot of Home Educators owe a great deal of gratitude and that is Graham Stewart MP.  He has championed the…

After the interviews yesterday and many people thinking you can’t be successful unless you have gone to a State School, I thought for fun it would be interesting to put…

This morning we had Faye Hatcher from BBC Radio Gloucestershire come and join us for a typical morning in the Kirby Household, because every morning is spent with a radio…

In the past few days there has been uproar about the way the GCSE exam has been marked.   I think the way the pass marks have been fiddled in this…

A report in the Telegraph today highlights another study that has been done which shows that all this pressure to get kids into school earlier and earlier could be damaging…

I have just seen this video on YouTube which was posted on twitter by one of my Labour friends (thanks Rosie). Not specifically a pro home Ed video but the…