Planning only
You teach, we plan. A timetable session, a subject sequence for the year, and a half-term review call to check what slipped and rebuild around it.
Also taught here · Full and partial timetables
Home schooling, with the exam route mapped out
Teaching at home is the manageable part. Entering a private candidate for an IGCSE, keeping records a university will accept and building a timetable that survives February are the parts families underestimate, and they are what we help with.
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Full or partialTimetable options
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Private candidateEntry guidance
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RecordsKept for applications
What families actually need help with
The teaching is rarely the bottleneck
Parents who home school are usually more than capable of teaching, at least until a subject specialises. What stops families is administration and structure: which centre will accept a private candidate, when entries close, how to evidence two years of work to an admissions officer, and how to keep a fourteen-year-old working through a wet Tuesday in February when nobody else is in the building.
We help with all four, and we teach the subjects that have outgrown the kitchen table, which for most families means the sciences somewhere around Year 10 and mathematics somewhere shortly after that.
- A weekly timetable built with you, with realistic hours rather than aspirational ones
- Private candidate entry guidance, including finding a centre that accepts external candidates
- Subject teaching where you want it, from a single subject to a full load
- Records and marked work kept so there is evidence when applications come around
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Timetable built
Centre found
Records kept
How support is structured
Home schooling families need different things, so this is a menu rather than a package.
Timetable planningA one-off session, then a review each half term
Subject teachingFrom one subject to a full timetable, one to one
Exam entryGuidance on private candidate registration and deadlines
Boards supportedCambridge IGCSE and A Level, Edexcel International, UK GCSE
RecordsMarked work, progress reports and a subject log kept in your account
Session length40, 55 or 85 minutes depending on subject and age
Parent contactA scheduled call every half term, not just when something breaks
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Half-term reviews
Deadlines tracked
Evidence kept
What we provide
Three ways families use us
Most start with the middle option and move outward in either direction as the year reveals what is actually needed.
Subjects you would rather not teach
One to one teaching in the subjects that have specialised beyond comfortable home teaching, most commonly the sciences, mathematics and foreign languages.
Full timetable
A complete taught programme across the subjects your child is entered for, with progress reports, records and exam entry guidance running alongside.
Entry rules for private candidates vary by country and by centre, and they change. We share what we know and point you at the official source, and we will not pretend to be an exam board.
How a course actually runs
Getting a home schooled student to an exam hall
Five things that need to happen, in roughly this order.
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Decide the board and the subjects
Not all boards or subjects accept private candidates equally easily, and some subjects with practical or non-examined components are considerably harder to enter privately. Deciding this early prevents a painful discovery in the spring.
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Find a centre that accepts external candidates
This is the step families most often leave too late. Centres have limited places, charge their own fees and close entries well before the exam. Start looking a full year ahead.
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Build a timetable you will still be following in February
Ambitious timetables fail in week six. We plan for fewer hours than parents expect and build in a catch-up slot each week, on the assumption that something will go wrong, because something always does.
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Teach, mark and keep the evidence
Marked work accumulates in your account as it is produced. Two years later, when a university or a college wants evidence of study, it exists rather than being reconstructed from memory.
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Enter, then rehearse the logistics
Entry deadlines are earlier than intuition suggests. Once entered, the final weeks cover the practical business of sitting an exam somewhere unfamiliar, which matters more for a home schooled student than for anyone else.
Start the centre search a year out
If you take one thing from this page, take that. Everything else can be fixed in a term. A centre that has closed its external entries cannot.
Where marks are won and lost
Questions home schooling families weigh
The trade-offs, stated plainly rather than sold.
| Consideration | What tends to happen | What helps |
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| Subject breadth | Home schooled students often go deep on fewer subjects | Decide deliberately how many IGCSEs are needed for the next step, then stop adding. |
| Practical subjects | Sciences with practical components are harder to enter privately | Check the alternative-to-practical route early, since not every board offers one in every subject. |
| Motivation in the middle of the year | Weeks six to twelve are where timetables collapse | A fixed external session each week creates an appointment somebody else is keeping too. |
| Evidence for applications | Records get reconstructed late and badly | Marked work and reports are kept as they are produced, so evidence exists when it is needed. |
| Isolation | Working alone is the real cost of home schooling | Sibling pairs, group study options and a consistent tutor relationship all help, though none of them fully solves it. |
Scheduling and fees
Booking home schooling support
Priced by what you use, since a planning-only family and a full-timetable family need very different things.
Free trial
Thirty minutes with the tutor you would actually be assigned. They set a short diagnostic task, mark it live, and tell you where the gaps are. No card details.
Weekly slot
One fixed 55 minute session a week, billed monthly in advance. Your tutor and your time do not move unless you move them.
Exam sprint
A block of eight sessions in the six weeks before the series, built around past papers and examiner reports rather than new content.
Planning session
A single 85 minute session to build the year's timetable and subject sequence, with a written plan afterwards. Some families take this once and never book anything else.
Rescheduling is free with 12 hours notice. Inside 12 hours the session counts as taught, which is the only way a tutor can hold a fixed slot for you and still plan a week around it.
Questions parents ask first
Home schooling, answered plainly
Can a home schooled student sit IGCSEs?
Yes, as a private candidate through a registered exam centre. Availability and cost vary by country and by centre, and some subjects are harder to enter than others because of practical or non-examined components.
Check with the centre directly, and start that conversation roughly a year before the exam.
Do you provide a full curriculum?
We provide teaching, planning and structure against the exam syllabus your child will sit. We are not a registered school and do not issue our own qualifications, and any provider claiming otherwise is worth a careful look.
How many hours a week should a home schooled Year 10 student work?
Fewer than most parents plan for and more than most students want. We usually land between fifteen and twenty focused hours across the week, with the emphasis on focused. Six hours of real work beats ten hours of presence.
Will universities accept a home schooled applicant?
Generally yes, provided the qualifications are recognised and the evidence is in order. What matters is the exam results and a coherent record of study, which is precisely why we keep the records as we go.
Can you teach siblings together?
Yes, where they are on the same syllabus, at a reduced rate per head. Where they are two years apart on different material, separate sessions genuinely work better and we will say so.
More answers sit on the full FAQ page.
Home schooling places open
Talk through your year before you commit
Tell us your child's age, the qualifications you are aiming at and what you already teach yourself. The first conversation is free and often ends with a plan rather than a booking.
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