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A few days ago I was interviewed by a journalist interested in my first book: ‘Why I Started a Small School’ which tells my personal...

A local benefactor had heard of our plight to find more suitable premises and had made a successful bid to buy a recently disused local...

Dame Catherine's was set up to run democratically. The school could not have survived and thrived the way it has without the enthusiastic...

Addressing the criticism that home educated children will grow up resentful at having been isolated from school going peers, Ray found...

None of the schools I visited received government funding. And although some do charge fees, they are making no profits. Two of them have...

The Dharma School in Brighton is the first primary school in the UK to be based on Buddhist principles. Continue reading article ...

One of the greatest differences between English and Danish schooling is that of mutual trust and respect between pupils and teachers....

A growing number of families are choosing to educate their children at home, for a variety of reasons. Continue reading article ...

Nurture Groups are based withing mainstream settings and care for up to 12 children aged four to seven who have emotional and behavioural...

The case for an environmentally aware form of education for children in the face of climate change. Continue reading article ...

A nurturing, human scale approach to education and parenting More than 25 years ago, long before the days of the UK’s government funded...

In 1982 a small non-fee paying secondary school serving the rural community of Hartland, Devon, and the outlying villages, opened it's...

Stan Pinsent interviewed me about setting up a small school for his ‘About Learning’ podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/start...