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Who are Education Otherwise?
Education Otherwise is the national home education charity for England and Wales.

www.educationotherwise.org
#homeeducationuk #homeschooling #homeed #homeducation #homeschool #charity #learning #education #educationotherwise

05.03.2026 12:09 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Book your tickets now!

Education Otherwise 50th Anniversary Fun Day

Celebrating 50 years of supporting home education, a fun, inclusive day for the whole family!

📅 July 9th 2026 |
📍 Icknield Street, Birmingham, B48 7EH |
🏕️ Camping available on-site

www.educationotherwise.org/education-ot...

04.03.2026 13:20 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We have always loved going into our local bookshop and using our voucher to choose a special World Book Day book

02.03.2026 14:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Digital Tokens Get your 2026 Digital Book Tokens for World Book Day! Use them to buy books or save on full-price purchases.

The first Thursday in March is World Book Day in the UK and Ireland.

See this years books - www.worldbookday.com/books/

Home educators, get your digital book tokens here: www.worldbookday.com/books-and-to...

#homeeducation #educationotherwise #worldbookday2026

02.03.2026 13:54 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Introducing the latest children's history books published in February 2026...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-ch...

#childrensbooks #childrenshistorybooks #indiebookshop
#newbooks
As a @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social affiliate, I may earn from purchases.
See Bio for links

18.02.2026 12:24 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK, so here is our booklist of children's books on the subject.

uk.bookshop.org/lists/childr...

#ukkidlit #lgbtqhistory #LGBTQHistoryMonth

As a @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social affiliate, I may earn from purchases

18.02.2026 14:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Happy New Year

01.01.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Year, from Education Otherwise

Wishing you all a new year full of magical learning moments.

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers for the support they have given in 2025 to home educators.

#homeeducation #homeed #newyear #happynewyear

01.01.2026 10:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The perfect last minute gift for book lovers 📚
Arrives in time for Christmas! 🎄

Get your digital gift cards and buy any book (except ebooks) whilst supporting independent bookshops
uk.bookshop.org/a/12513/gift...

#ukkidlit #giftcards

21.12.2025 10:56 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Education Otherwise.
There for you.
Advice you can trust.

#EducationOtherwise

05.12.2024 20:03 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.

24.11.2025 23:00 👍 5412 🔁 2204 💬 40 📌 109
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#96. Dyslexia Is a Catch-All Diagnosis for Reading Difficulties, with Multiple Causes This is a follow-up to my Letter #95, about school-induced anxiety as a cause of dyslexia.

The latest Substack post from Peter Gray
#96. Dyslexia Is a Catch-All Diagnosis for Reading Difficulties, with Multiple Causes
open.substack.com/pub/petergra...

This aligns with my experiences with #homeeducation

03.11.2025 10:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Leading primatologist Dame Jane Goodall has died aged 91.

Find out more about her and her pioneering work with chimpanzees with our children's biographies.
uk.bookshop.org/lists/childr...
#janegoodall #childrensbooks
As an @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social affiliate I may earn from purchases.

01.10.2025 20:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Embroidery of sixteen different coloured and shaped toadstools on a reddisn background

Embroidery of sixteen different coloured and shaped toadstools on a reddisn background

Kimika Hara, contemporary Japanese embroidery artist #WomensArt
#September

19.09.2025 05:34 👍 824 🔁 135 💬 0 📌 5
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To mark International Cat Day we have a selection of children's history books featuring cats...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/childr...

#childrenshistorybooks #cats #internationalcatday
As a @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social I may earn from purchases.

08.08.2025 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is a great question. Circle. I think mine is a circle.

19.07.2025 16:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Going Through the Lands of the Franks without Impediment”: Making and Maintaining Peace in the Levant Discussion of teaching peacemaking during the Crusades

We often teach about the Crusades as conflict, but how we teach about peacemaking and coexistence in the Levant?
🗺️🗃️

www.liberatingnarratives.com/going-throug...

13.06.2025 17:07 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Happy #IndieBookshopWeek 🤩 📚

Indie bookshops do more than sell books - they build communities ❤️

This summer, shop local, shop independent – and discover brilliant children’s non-fiction along the way! ⛱️

14.06.2025 04:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Asian small-clawed otter sunbathing

Asian small-clawed otter sunbathing

Happy #WorldOtterDay

28.05.2025 16:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That sounds exciting

25.05.2025 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I'm taking part on the #jehanegoldenthread challenge.
Current topic is Go Wild and this is for the first prompt 'sweet cheetah'.
#artsky #artchallenge #cheetah

24.05.2025 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It is years since I've done any art. So I'm trying to get into the habit of doing more sketching.

24.05.2025 17:56 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Artwork featuring a young Black woman facing left looking forwards with strong expression, dressed in orange which merges with the floral green background

Artwork featuring a young Black woman facing left looking forwards with strong expression, dressed in orange which merges with the floral green background

Sofia Bonati, a self-taught #artist from Argentina, known for her portraits of women against a backdrop of mazes or floral patterns #WomensArt
#Saturday

24.05.2025 08:05 👍 1404 🔁 195 💬 0 📌 5

Pick up the nearest object and your child's whole education can come from that. A rock, Lego brick or tattered teddy, each one can inspire learning. How was it made, from what, where did the parts come from, what is it like there....rabbit holes galore! Home education works.

#EducationOtherwise

18.05.2025 11:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Every child deserves unconditional support; never take away their firsts, no matter how long ago we experienced them ourselves as each one is part of wonder.

Home education putting children at the centre, the future is heirs.

#EducationOtherwise

15.05.2025 23:39 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Home education; learning with your child. Grandson's subjects of choice are very different to mine but I find myself increasingly able to answer questions about complex scientific points which he has learnt but I never did. That is how home education can work. #EducationOtherwise

09.05.2025 17:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Introducing the latest children's history books published in May 2025...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-ch...

As a @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social affiliate, I may earn from purchases.
#childrensbooks #childrenshistorybooks #indiebookshop
#newbooks #ukkidlit

01.05.2025 09:53 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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This 1998 advice from Ursula K. Le Guin about gender-neutral language is still relevant. On Tuesday, Literary Twitter came for Margaret Atwood after she retweeted, without commentary, an op-ed article written by Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno. The article, “Why can’t we say…

lithub.com/this-1998-ad...

16.04.2025 22:24 👍 354 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 0

Home educating children is often about learning things yourself. it does not require genius to educate, it requires love, commitment and enthusiasm. Any adult who can read (or listen to) and assimilate information can educate. I know. I am that woman.
#EducationOtherwise

16.04.2025 15:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Petition: Remove CWS Bill clauses and provide tangible support to home educating parents We urge the Government to remove the provisions of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on "children not in school", conduct proper independent research into the outcomes of home educated childre...

Please sign this petition. If you believe home education is a problem, ask _why_ children are being home educated. Campaign for better, accessible schools, better SEND provision in an education system shaped by individual need. Make our schools fit for purpose.

#AreYouListeningNow #HomeEducation

04.04.2025 15:04 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0