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The NEW HomeMadeEducation 2025/2026 course prospectus is available now! Featuring NEW ‘live’ times/dates, NEW courses such as “IGCSE Maths (Edexcel Spec A)”, “An Introduction to Natural History”, “An Introduction to Physical Chemistry”, and a whole NEW range of curriculum package bundles! Book a ‘live’ or ‘flexible/recorded’ course today:
🖋 English Language, 📚 English Literature
💳Business, 💰Economics, 🚢Travel & Tourism, 📠Accounting
🧠 Psychology, 👩‍👦 Sociology
🌎 Geography, 🏛 History,🐸Environmental Management,🐬Marine Science
📐 Maths, 📊Statistics
🍃Biology, ⚛ Physics, 🔭Astronomy, 🔬Chemistry
Courses include:
~ a wide range of proprietary materials, information, activities, assignments, extras and video/zoom lessons
~ small group sizes
~ unlimited* tutor support
~ all courses are taught by subject experts and developed, created and designed by the person teaching the class (all current or former home educators)
“I just wanted to say that I can’t recommend Kate highly enough! Her lessons are great. Dd16 says she owes her 2 A’s in Psychology and Sociology at GCSE and an A Level in Psychology. We’ve had issues with other teachers and tutors, but never Kate. When I asked her what was wrong with some of the others yesterday, my daughter’s reply about teachers was “They aren’t Kate. They don’t make it interesting and engaging like she did. I miss her!”. Dd12 is now studying psych with Kate and really loves it too.”
“We have been so lucky with the such a range of fantastic subjects offered by Kate. DD has thoroughly enjoyed all her courses this year and has decided to continue (with HME) onto A Levels. I know this is only due to your enthusiasm in the subjects and excellent teaching. DD really felt this shone through in your happy, friendly personality that came through in your live lessons.”
“Thank you so much for everything over the last 2 years. After leaving school after being bullied we found you like a shining star and My daughter has LOVED every class and all 4 subjects that you have encouragingly taught her over the last 2 years. The education department could learn a lot from you. Thank you for your dedication and passion to teaching.”
“Delighted with DS’s 8 for psychology. Thankyou for such a clear and thorough course structure Kate and your inimitable teaching style which brings such great enthusiasm for the subject and clear guidelines for what is needed to answer questions fully . You offer brilliant courses offering everything that could possible be needed to successfully pass. “
“I completely attribute DD20 studying psychology at a Russell Group university down to the love of it she learnt from Kate and all of the encouragement and support she received. HomeMade Education Distance Learning simply is the best tuition we’ve ever found, bar none and all 3 of my children have studied with them.”
With feedback like this, you know you that you’re enrolling in a truly special course, with Home Made Education … trusted and highly recommended home education online courses. You can find the draft new Prospectus on the website (www.homemadeeducation.com) or click below/attached!

2025 – 2026 The HME Course Prospectus DRAFTDownload

HME Writing competition

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To celebrate 5 wonderful years of working with HomeMade Education and our learners and families, Caitlin has decided to host a writing competition.

There will be 3 categories: poetry, prose, and non-fiction. There will be 3 age categories: up to 11, 12-16, 17+ (length guidelines – approx 40 lines of poetry or 500 words of prose)

Please send along your entries using the email address below, and please include: a subject line that it is a competition entry; your young person’s full name, genre and age categories. (The deadline for entries is 7th April 2025!)

Winning entries will be published on our social media pages (with entrants’ permission of course) and will receive a certificate and book bundle prize. We are happy to accept unthemed entries but if you would like a theme to work on, the theme for this competition is “inspiration”. Happy writing!

We can’t wait to read your work! Don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions 🙂

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successes for our H.M.E. learners …

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Getting exam results can be such a tricky time, full of pressure and anxiety. For many of our learners, an 8 or 9 (or A*) is a superb success and what they wanted/needed for their futures. But for many other young people, a 3, 4 or 5 is just as much of a success – given school trauma, SEND, etc. – and is exactly what they needed for college, entrepreneurship or other options that enable them to pursue their future dreams as well. Enjoying learning and doing your best is key, no matter your definition of ‘success’. We applaud all our learners for their efforts, and here is just a little sample of feedback over the past two weeks, as exams results have come in …

  • “Hi Kate, I am delighted to say that I have received a 9 in statistics. Thank you for teaching me! – W”
  • “I was on the recorded tutorials for this school year and the last, so I thought I’d let you know I got an A*! I’m very happy with my result – thank you soooo much for helping me, for being there always to answer questions (however wacky they were!) and guiding me through homework etc. The lessons were fun and interactive…even though I was watching them pre-recorded, I felt part of the lesson! So thanks for all your help … and I loved the case study! I’ve learnt so much about Japan!!!”
  • “I got my exam results for T&T this morning and I wanted to share with you that I got an A! I’m very happy with it … thanks again for all your help”
  • “Hi HME Team, I am pleased to inform you that DS has achieved the following results: Biology – grade 8 – Business Studies – grade 6 … Thank you for your support in teaching and tutoring B this past year.”
  • “Hi Kate. Just wanted to let you know that DD got an A In Environmental Management … Thank you for all the work you have done putting the resources together and teaching these GCSEs.”
  • “Hi Lucy. DD got 9s in both Physics and Chemistry … She’s really pleased and is looking forward to college. Thanks again.”
  • “Hi Kate, I just wanted to let you know that DD got 9s for both her psychology and sociology GCSEs!! Thank you so much for all your fantastic support. It’s really appreciated. “
  • “Hi Kate, I am very proud to let you know that DD has received two 9s (in Psychology and Statistics) in these subjects studied with you. Also thank you again for your support in securing for her the exam allowances she needed to achieve her full potential. “
  • “I got my english language results today and i got an 8! i’m so pleased with it! thank you so much for being such an amazing teacher, i really would not have been able to get that without you”
  • “Hi Kate! I’ve heard back about Economics today too and I got a 7 … I was only one mark off from the upper grade boundary … so thanks for all your help with this too! “
  • “DD got a 5 in English Language, which was a massive achievement given her diagnoses and now she’s off to college in September! Thank you so much!”
  • “DS received 5 for Chemistry, I’m very proud of him … 😅 Thank you Lucy for your support and guidance!”

New HME Courses for Sept ’24

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What are some of the fabulous 🎈NEW🎈 online courses available this September, with HomeMade Education?
🏡 ‘live’ KS3 Humanities 1year course programme (covers Geography, Business, Psychology and more)
📝 ‘live’ Getting Started with GCSEs/IGCSEs 1year course programme (explore a variety of subjects, learn study and revision skills and more)
✖️ ‘live’ KS3 Maths short courses, such as: ‘Portion, Proportion and Probability’, ‘Correlation’, ‘Algebra’ and more
🔍 ‘live’ KS3 Science short courses, such as: ‘Understanding Waves’, ‘A Biological Perspective on the Environment’ and more
📐 ‘live’ Functional Skills Maths courses
💰 IGCSE Accounting
🐠 IGCSE Marine Science
(And all our usual favourites are still available, ‘live’ or ‘flexi/recorded’ in English, Psychology, Economics, Geography, Business and more!)

Have an explore of the new-look website and see why so many families come back to us year after year, sibling after sibling!

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for such an amazing Sociology course!! You have taught it amazingly, and I’ve loved every second of it!!!! Since taking this course, my perspective on society has really deepened, and it’s been fascinating to see how it all connects! Thank you so so much for this course!!!!! It’s been absolutely amazing, you’ve been a fantastic teacher!! Thank you!!”

“Thankyou for such a clear and thorough course structure Kate and your inimitable teaching style which brings such great enthusiasm for the subject and clear guidelines for what is needed to answer questions fully . You offer brilliant courses offering everything that could possible be needed to successfully pass.”

With feedback like this, you know you that you’re enrolling in a truly special course, with HomeMadeEducation (run by a home educator, for home educators).  Have an explore of the full NEW prospectus available here: https://homemadeeducation.com/faqs/, you’re sure to find something to delight and enthrall.

Happy Anniversary to HME!

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HomeMadeEducation is now starting it’s 11th year! Happy 10yr Anniversary to us, and thank you to all of the learners and families who have welcomed myself, Caitlin and Lucy to be part of your educational journeys – it has been a real priviledge!

Whether you are considering your online learning options, just new to HME or have been with us for 4, 5 or even more years … your young people have meant the world to us.

There’s some more new and exciting news (and courses)!!! still to come in 2024, as we always have new ideas to bring to you (and as always, we’re working away in the background improving and updating our core offerings). Happy (almost) end of exam season and summer to all!

Some recent little tidbits of feedback from some of you:

“Hello! Hope you are well! Had my last psychology exam today which I think went really well! Thanks for being such a great teacher this year, for making the lessons really fun and interesting and being so helpful throughout the course! I’ve had such a brilliant time learning more about psychology, thank you so much! 😊”

“I’m just sending a quick email to let you know that the course we bought (pre IGCSE EL 6 weeks) is having a phenomenally positive influence on my son.”

“I just wanted to write and say thank you so much for the lessons over the past year, you’ve been such an excellent friendly teacher and you’ve helped me improve my writing tons for my exam!”

The new (and updated) 2024 homemadeeducation prospectus is now available

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The new HomeMadeEducation 2024/2025 course prospectus is available now … with new KS2 and KS3 course availability and all of the updated details for 1-year GCSEs/IGCSEs and 2-year A-Levels.

So, hurrah, this means: 

-there are new ‘live’ dates for short courses for 2024 and into 2025 (but do keep watch for an additional update in the summer, when new short courses and short course ‘live’ timeslots will also be announced)

-the September-start ‘live’ timeslots for GCSEs (yes, home educators can do some GCSEs), IGCSEs, and A-Levels are now available, which means early enrolment booking is now open (but as usual, for most courses you can enrol at any time using the ‘flexible/recorded’ format or sometimes you can even start with that format and then switch to ‘live’ in September (if pre-booked))

Small class sizes, full tutor support, a wide range of supporting materials and activities, flexible formats, multi-course discounts, … just some of the reasons HomeMadeEducation courses fill quickly

Trusted and recommended for many years – run by a home educator, for home educators. See why home ed families stay with us year after year at http://www.homemadeeducation.com

Thanks for subscribing to the HME info blog and we hope you find a course that inspires and delights your young person!

(the new Prospectus can be found here (just click), and the updated course details are also on the individual pages of the website http://www.homemadeeducation.com)

The NEW HomeMadeEducation prospectus for the coming ’23/’24 “academic year” is now available!

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The NEW HomeMadeEducation prospectus for the coming ’23/’24 “academic year” is now available! You can download all of the course details here https://homemadeeducation.com/faqs/ .
From Architecture to English to Psychology to Zoology, from 9yrs -18yrs (primary, secondary, GCSEs/IGCSEs, A-Levels), we have a unique and engaging course (or two) that will delight your young person!
“I think you must be a bit magic. Thankyou. Its quite an emotional thing for me to see J approaching learning with such gusto. I can’t tell you how much your classes are helping him learn how to learn. It’s not just that he finds you personally so engaging, which is rare in itself, but he is learning how to research and present his ideas. This is something he has never done before.”
www.homemadeeducation.com has been offering highly recommended and highly reviewed courses and workshops for over a decade!

Families come back to HomeMadeEducation courses year after year, knowing that we offer superb value and unsurpassed support. I hope you find something that suits your young person to a ‘T’ (and if you have any suggestions for future courses, do let me know too!)

Very best regards, Kate

NYC Calls

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Our very own Caitlin Kendall (tutor extraordinaire, top examiner, published author, literary judge) is off to New York CITY tomorrow with @bentkeypublishing (the publishers of her new book) as part of the New York City Poetry Festival on Saturday! Our learners are so lucky to have Caitlin guide them through their English and History studies!