Home Education Festival of Scotland

"Meeting Announcement" Are your teenagers beginning to wonder what career they would like and asking how to proceed? Come along to "What after Home Education? The next step?" and meet Celeste from Dundee and Angus college, along with Home Educated adults. They are happy share their experience and give advice and tools to succeed in the next steps forward.

"Meeting Announcement" Home Education with Xtraordinary Children - Sometimes home education is not a choice. It is a result of a long and painful struggle. Perhaps your child is declared too active or needs more time to learn the basics or doesn't feel confident enough socially, you decide it’s best to keep your child at home. You may feel unprepared , and/or isolated, and feel you need support. Come along and meet other families and professionals who could help you increase your self confidence and better your child’s environment.

"Conference Announcement" Home Education in Scotland -  Alison Preuss  will explore the history of Home Education in Scotland. Looking at both the successes and the challenges facing the community. Alison  started home educating her own three children in 1994 and co-founded the Scottish home education charity Schoolhouse in Dundee in 1996, which she co-ordinated for 20 years. She set up the Scottish home education online forum in 1999, which is now part of the Home Education Forums network, and co-founded the children's rights campaign group ARCH in 2001. Alison helped form the NO2NP coalition, which won the landmark 'named person' case at the Supreme Court in 2016, and is currently co-petitioning parliament for a public inquiry into the impact on families of illegal data sharing. She runs an online business and also works as a freelance writer, independent advocate and education consultant for a Glasgow-based lawyer."  will pot history of  Home Educati...

"Conference Announcement" The documentary "Being and Becoming" by Clara Bellar will be screening in the Conference Room during the festival. Being and Becoming explores the theme of trusting children and their development, and invites us to question our learning paradigms and options. The filmmaker takes us on a journey of discovery through the US, France, the UK and Germany (where it's illegal not to go to school.) We meet parents who have made the choice of not schooling their children, neither at school nor at home, but of letting them learn freely what they are truly passionate about. It is a quest for truth about the innate desire to learn. It belongs to a wider theme than education, connected to a change in our belief system and to our society's evolution, as well as to the importance of reclaiming one's life and self-confidence.