Inside Martyn's Thoughts

James has been with his new tutor for three weeks. We didn’t know how it would go. He spent the weekend before the first session begging me ...

When William entered mainstream education (Year R) he started at the top of his class but by the end of the academic year he was bottom. Beh...

  For the last 6 years I feel like I’ve become a champion for home education. I feel I have shown that home ed is and can be the right decis...

I’m really proud of Will and how well he is doing in his schooling.  Looking back it hasn’t always been easy to educate him at home.  6 year...

Back to school has pretty much happened for everyone now. I’ve seen everyone have very mixed feelings about the kids going back. Me?  I’m no...

With the school closures happening as we predicted the thought of teaching the children at home has hit many hard. For those who have r...

The world has gone a little crazy at the moment with the outbreak of Coronavirus. I can understand why everyone is worried and panickin...

Some of you may have noticed that there wasn't a home ed post last week.  To be honest Home Ed went out the window the last 2 weeks...

Home Ed this week has been quite enjoyable.  We started this week with Hannah's parents here. Although Hannah and her dad went out, ...

We’ve had to change how we teach William. William is no different to a lot of children I’ve taught over the years. They get to a cert...

Home Ed this week has been really busy. It's also been a bit of a slog at the beginning of the week straight after half term but I of...

Home Ed this week has been really busy.  We've had a week were we have had to fit life in around our lessons but we have, in some w...

Home Ed is great at the moment. We seem to be covering lots of different topics and importantly Will seems do be learning lots and progre...

I suppose the title to this post is completely misleading because, quite frankly, there isn’t a problem with James; at least for the peo...

 I often receive emails asking if we are interested in going to one event or another and although I think many would like these even...

It has now been a little over a month since James has started school. I have always believed that every child is an individual. Everyth...

One aspect of Home Education that I love is the free learning that can come from everyday life. Recently, the boys and I were cleaning ...

We are extremely lucky and have so many great attractions on our doorstep. As many of you know we try and visit as many of these landmar...

As a class teacher I would have sworn by our education system; it was clearly allowing children to progress and achieve at whatever cost. ...

Following on with our Summer Space project we have been learning about the Moon and also about our neighbour planet Venus . It ...