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Tuesday, 19 April 2016

For those children taking exams this summer...

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We are a home educating family in the UK. Two of our children were home educated until age 16 (one is now doing a degree apprenticeship and the other one has finished university). One is still being home educated through her final GCSEs.

Over the years, we have followed a fairly eclectic style of home education, fluctuating between project-based and child-led activities. As the kids have moved into their teens, we started more formal learning to enable them to get GCSE-level qualifications.

Home educating families all have different ways of doing things and live unique lives. This is just the story of one family. Ours.

If you have younger children...

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