https://www.facebook.com/groups/361606621039801/

Anyone who is home educating in West Sussex is welcome to join this group

Up and Coming Events for Home Educators in and around West Sussex

Next Week at Flip Out in Chichester-

The next Home Educator Day at Winchester Science Centre is July 7th  No need to pre book just turn up on this date.

June 2017

There is so much happening in West Sussex. An hour from London and easy for the beach. A great place to be a home educator as there are so many of us. More than 250 of us are known to the local authority and there are probably a few more than that. 

We have the Titchfield exam centre nearby on the county border as well as EtudEO, ActivEO and Rackham offering both structured lessons and informal meet ups.

Football Club might be taking a break for Summer but we've Marwell visits, swimming lessons,  Rock Climbing in Crawley, beach days, Nerf Club, and all kinds of other events happening currently posted on our facebook group. If you are organising something in West Sussex for the month of June please post a link in the comments.


Last year we went hunting for truffles and had 3 Japan Days!


In addition to fortnightly rock climbing in Crawley, there's a Forest School in Angmering, organised beach cleans and over the county border Home Educators can jump at Flip Out Portsmouth at a massively discounted rate. There are also upcoming visits to the WWT and other local attractions. Many home educators say there's actually too much to do!

June is one of the most glorious months to live and be a home educator in West Sussex. The weather can be lovely and the schools are not on holiday leaving the beaches and parks relatively empty. The long days mean evening events can appeal to families who find an extra adult handy.


Ultimately I aim to list details of events on either this blog or a similar one and as it will contain addresses and phone numbers you'll need to register your email to see it - there could be a supporting WhatsApp group for last minute changes due to weather etc

A-Z of Activities for Home Educators in West Sussex

I found this old post from 2013 and thought it might be fun to update it - If you want to link to your group or blog please feel free.

If you are considering not sending your child to school or withdrawing an unhappy child from school you might be wondering what home educators locally do all day. So, a few of us got together and put together an A-Z of the clubs, groups and classes that run during weekday term times.

Here's a selection of what's on offer for home educators in West Sussex and close by.

Edyourself data shows that there were between 250-500 home educated children in West Sussex in 2014 estimated by WSCC to be 1,000 by 2019



A - ActivEO, Airhop in Guildford
B - Basketball in Horsham, Book Club
C - Climbing in Crawley and at Out of Bounds
D - Drama - Various groups Chichester and Worthing locations
E - Exams, Etudeo
F - French lessons, Forest School, Football Club in Southwater, Flip Out, Fargoes
G - Gymnastics - Horsham
H - Horse riding - Horsham, HESFES
I - Ice Skating - Guildford Spectrum and Portsmouth
J - Judo, Japan Days
K
L - Lego club Dorking, heavily discounted days out to Legoland Windsor, Learn Nothing Day
M - Minecraft - Various home ed servers, Maypole dancing, Messy Play
N - Not Back to School Picnics, National Trust membership available at a discount
O
P - Pantomime trip organised annually
Q -
R - Rock Climbing / Rollerskating
S - Street Dancing, swimming meet ups
T - Trampolining, Titchfield
U
V
W - Worthing Wednesday group - various topics eg space, dinosaurs
X - XboX on line with friends
Y - Youth Club
Z - Zumba

A-Z of Activities for Home Educators in West Suusex

If you are considering not sending your child to school or withdrawing an unhappy child from school you might be wondering what home educators locally do all day. So, a few of us got together and put together an A-Z of the clubs, groups and classes that run during weekday term times.

Here's a selection of what's on offer for home educators in West Sussex and close by.

A - Archery - Several groups, various locations, ActivEO
B - Ballet in Reigate
C - Climbing in Crawley
D - Drama - Various groups Chichester and Worthing locations
E - Exams, Etudeo
F - French lessons, Forest School
G - Gymnastics - Horsham
H - Horse riding - Horsham, HESFES
I - Ice Skating - Guildford and Portsmouth
J - Judo
K
L - Lego club Dorking, heavily discounted days out to Legoland Windsor
M - Minecraft - Various home ed servers
N - Not Back to School Picnics, National Trust membership available at a discount
O
P - Pantomime trip organised annually
Q -
R - Rock Climbing / Rollerskating
S - Street Dancing
T - Trampolining
U
V
W - Worthing Wednesday group - various topics eg space, dinosaurs
X -
Y - Youth Club
Z - Zumba

Looking for local Home Education groups in West Sussex?

Over the past 7 or so years that we have been involved with the home education community in West Sussex I have noticed that August and September are very busy months for enquiries about home education.Whether people give in to that nagging feeling in their gut that their child is too young to start school or thoughts of returning an unhappy child in a school environment are the motivators I'm not sure. In my experience there are as many reasons for home educating as there are home educating families.

What I am sure of is that Home Educating is popular in West Sussex, a Freedom of Information Request from 2009 shows 385 children known to be home educated and more recent data from Fiona Nicholson suggests between 250 and 500 children. Membership of local groups suggests the same sort of figure.

There are many groups.

A large facebook group called

HEWS (link is to an intro group - you need to meet in real life before you can be added)

Crawley and Horsham Dragons

Worthing Area Home Education

Activeo

Members meet up for Archery, Drama, Horse riding, days at the beach and everything in between.

and a more structured formal group called Etudeo

and, on a more micro level, a HEWS blog ring  - I am aware some of the blogs in the ring are out of date and not all of the click throughs are working but it is worth persevering there is some useful information in there. Fixing it is on my list.

If you get stuck leave a comment on this post.

On the edge

If you live on the borders of the county you might be interested to know that: Brighton, South West Surrey, Portsmouth, Southampton, Kent and Tunbridge Wells all have lively and active home ed groups that might be easier for you to travel to.

Have a look here