I thought it was time to write a little update on where we are with our home education journey.

My oldest has now finished her IGCSE’s (I am really proud, she got A*’s for English, History and Biology and A’s for Physics and Maths). She is now starting her A Levels and has chosen to study English Language, Maths and Biology. We are trying something a bit different with her A Levels and for the first time we are using a distance learning course. The main reason for this was I wanted her to get external feedback on assignments. I am still quite involved as it is really self study with tutors marking assignments so I am trying to keep up with her work in case she does have questions and also so we can discuss what she is learning.

My youngest is entering his Year 10 (well if he was in school it would be Year 10) and we are working towards his IGCSE exams for English, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Environmental Management. He has chosen to do 7 subjects mainly because he finds them interesting and he is also a faster worker so he tends to get through the content easily.

It is going to be quite a challenging but interesting phase of our home education. Both kids working towards exams and me trying to keep up with them. It is very different to how we started but that is the beauty of home education, as your kids grow and change so the way you style your home education adapts.

I honestly never thought we would be here. It was never my master plan to home educate. We choose to home educate because we believed it was the best option for our kids. I still believe that. I still believe that home education was the right environment for my kids and it has been an honor to be a part of this journey with them.