Online Resources

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Home Education Advisory Service - HEAS is a national home education charity based in the UK
If you're in Scotland check Schoolhouse for correct legal information and local support
Action for Home Education is an action group set up to defend HE in the UK
AHEd Wiki
Education Otherwise
HE-Special - the web site of the HE-Special-UK mailing list, a group of families who Home Educate children with Special Educational Needs.
The Autonomous Education UK Yahoo Group

Dorset - Home Educators of East Dorset web site
Dorset - Weymouth Home Educators Yahoo Group
Surrey - A Yahoo group for Surrey focussing on improving relations between Surrey County Council and Surrey home educators.
Surrey - PACT a subscription-based HE organisation in SW Surrey
Surrey - A Yahoo group for home educators in and around Walton and Weybridge
Wales - C.L.A.S. group based in Bangor, North Wales
Wiltshire - Home Educators of North Wilts web site
Worcestershire - Worcestershire Home Educators

The Ordnance Survey has a nice site for kids called Map Zone. Lots of map and geography related facts and games.

Headline History presented in newspaper format you are encouraged to become reporters, interviewing witnesses to the events in each of the 24 lead stories. There are four newspapers in all covering the Romans, the Tudors, the Victorians and World War Two. (key stage 2)
The National Archives Learning Curve

Cambridge School Classics Project - home of the Cambridge Latin Course as recommended by The idle parent

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra kids' site is fab! Learn about the instuments of the orchestra, musical notes, rhythm, tempo, pitch and musical symbols. Have fun and experiment with the "Performalator" and "Composerizer".

Butterfly Conservation a nice site for identifying and learning more abouth British butterflies and moths
Heavens Above is a great site for astronomy and space science. Track the ISS, a planet or a comet and get a sky chart for your location.
Frogland is a US site with lots of fun and facts. 2008 is The Year of the Frog
Soil-net gives you everything your child ever wanted to know about soil and then some. From Cranfield University's National Soil Resources Institute
Gorgeous, detailed animal colouring pages on the National Geographic site

Education City is a fantastic site to help with Reading, Maths, Science, French, German and Spanish. It isn't free, but it is very cheap, it is £20 per year (assuming you use various codes which loads of us have so can provide if you are interested) They do a free 10 day trial first so that you can check if you like it. My son loves using the site, and I like it because I can see how he is progressing, it is also really interesting to see what they are expected to know at different "school year" stages (the science is scary, at 5 my son was doing year 3 / 4 science - it is very simple and I think most HE children will know most of what is on there!) and you can have your child registered for different years for different subjects, e.g. they can be year 1 for Reading, year 2 for Maths and year 3 for science. - Tobermory