The songs from The Children’s Forest, from the Song of the Snowdrop to the Hazel Tree Song, are now available online, great for those of us with fledgling music-reading skills. Author Anna Richardson sings.
Welcome Imbolc with song
home education
Homeschooling discussion
On 16 January 2021 we held The Case for Homeschooling panel discussion with author Anna Dusseau. As many families home school in the latest Lockdown, this timely panel discussion shared personal experiences of home learning…
Home learning through lockdown
As 2021 begins we find ourselves back in lockdown, and looking for inspiring activities and home learning aids. Hawthorn Press has practical books that can help with home education such as educational text books, crafts,…
Anna Dusseau interview in The Green Parent magazine
Anna Dusseau, author of The Case for Homeschooling: free range home education handbook, discusses home education and schooling in the Dec/Jan 2021 issue of The Green Parent magazine, available now. ‘Everyone is different and home…
The Case for Homeschooling Launched at Stroud Book Festival 2020
On Friday 6th November we were delighted to launch The Case for Homeschooling: free range home education handbook by Anna Dusseau as part of Stroud Book Festival 2020. The online launch included a discussion on…
Celebrating Autumn
The Autumn Equinox brings a turning point in the year, when summer gives way to autumn and the nights begin to draw in. It is the season of harvest – fruits, nuts and berries fill…
Covid’s lesson on home education – a letter to The Sunday Times
On the 30th August The Sunday Times published a letter urging the UK Government to review the country’s education system, acknowledging the valuable role that home education has played during lockdown and supporting parents who…
Back to School: Stationery and Sledgehammers
Schools are a necessary part of our socio-economic reality, but the government has hugely overstepped this. Attempting to frog-march the nation back to school and deliberately cultivating the false impression that educational alternatives such as…
Deep End Home Schooling – how our books can help!
As we face weeks, and perhaps months, of uncertainty during the Covid-19 crisis, Martin Large explores the ways in which Hawthorn Press’s titles can help with home schooling and staying at home
A home-educating Creative Form Drawing lesson
This video, also from Pepper and Pine, is of a home-educating creative form drawing lesson based on Creative Form Drawing with children aged 6-10: Workbook One by Angela Lord.
