Home education

Key home learning skills for every year group

We've asked our teacher contributors (who are also parents!) to highlight the key skills to focus on:

• Reception key English and maths skills for home learning
• 7 key areas for Year 1 home learning
• Year 2 English and maths: key home learning
• Year 3 maths and English learning at home
• At-home learning support for maths and English in Year 4
• Key English and maths skills in Year 5
• Year 6 maths and English key home learning topics

Struggling to get your own work done whilst home schooling? We have 11 top tips for combining home education with working from home.

Home education planning pack

Get your home education journey off to a confident start: find out how to set up your own curriculum, how to write an educational philosophy, how to measure progress and evidence learning, how to keep a learning journal and how to use an academic diary in TheSchoolRun's Home education planning pack (available to subscribers only).

Templates and examples of documents are provided, as well as lots of information and tips from an experienced UK home educator.

Brilliant child-friendly museums for UK home educators

Bring home learning to life with a visit to one of the UK's best museums for families. Packed with opportunities to get hands-on with the exhibits, dress up, try some experiments and more, these venues come highly recommended by the most rigorous of critics: parents and children. You can also prepare for your visit by downloading the educational resources the museums provide, or joining special home-educator sessions.

• Mary Rose, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
• The Foundling Museum
• York Castle Museum
• The Geffrye Museum of the Home
• Eureka!
• Manchester Museum
• Museum of Liverpool
• Look Out Discovery Centre
• DIG, York
• World Museum, Liverpool
• York's Chocolate Story
• Discover Children's Story Centre
• Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
• The Cartoon Museum, London
• SEA LIFE, Brighton
• W5, Belfast
• Titanic Belfast
• Warwick Castle
• Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
• Arundel Castle, West Sussex
• The Cutty Sark, Greenwich
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
• Florence Nightingale Museum
• Dover Castle
• Old Operating Theatre
• Globe Theatre
• Churchill War Rooms
• Down House
• Cambridge Museum of Technology
• KidZania London
• Dickens Museum
• National Space Centre, Leicester
• Howletts Wild Animal Park, Kent
• Science Museum, London

Daily learning programme

Are you looking for daily inspiration to encourage your child’s love of learning? Do you want to develop their knowledge and skills with a structured programme of activities?

Introducing TheSchoolRun’s daily learning programme, suitable for parents of children aged 3-11 (equivalent to school years Nursery to Year 6).

Sign up for the programme and each weekday we’ll send you a bite-size email with easy-to-use ideas and resources to support your child's learning at home.

The programme runs for 6 months and is perfect for parents who have taken their children out of school for a period, those who are setting out on the home education journey or just parents who want daily activities to boost their child’s learning.

Targeted by age/school year, the programme includes a range of activities such as:

- English, maths or science worksheets to download and print.

- Interactive maths tutorials – our digital teacher will explain the method, show you examples and then give you a chance to practise what you've learned.

- Topic-themed learning packs and workbooks to explore.

- Fun activities and games you can do at home to keep your child busy

Sign up for a FREE trial today!