The First Term
A gentle guide to your first weeks at home.
The hardest part isn’t the teaching. It’s the week where you’ve stopped doing school and haven’t started doing anything else yet, and you’re not sure whether that’s a disaster or exactly right.
What is inside
- What deschooling actually is, and why rushing past it usually backfires
- Thirty days, gently paced — one small thing at a time, never a curriculum
- What to say to the relative who asks what your child is “doing all day”
- Space to notice what your child does when nobody’s setting the agenda
Printable PDF · A4 and US Letter · undated · instant download
Who it is for
A family in the first weeks or months after leaving school, or about to be. It assumes you are tired and slightly unsure rather than organised and enthusiastic, because that is how most people arrive.
What it is not
Not a curriculum, and not a plan for a year. It covers about thirty days on purpose — the single most common thing families change in the first term is the plan they made before they started.
Get it
Bought on Etsy, downloaded straight away. Nothing arrives in the post.
Published through Termly, the home-education platform I am building with my husband Ed. Same person behind it either way — Termly is just where it lives.