Home Education Collective

09/10/2026

Cooking, building, blocks, crafting, inventing inside games when the rain came- "roll-y bowl-y" and disappearing for hours with friends playing whatever complex game this discussion prompted. Every week at HEC is different.

09/10/2026

Today's craft was mini books and there were some brilliant ones, including one particularly keen crafter who made her book and then filled all 32 pages!

"Normally I'm outside, but today I spent the whole time making my book!"

"I'm going to make one page every time".

"So cute!".

02/10/2026

A wonderful sunny couple of weeks at HEC.

Last week had an overarching autumn theme with harvest painting, and delicious bread making as well as an enthusiastic debate club- cats vs dogs!

This week it was creativity all around. Lots of building with knex, blocks and magnatiles, including an epic dinosaur park complete with support helicopter, plus chess and surrealist collage.

So lovely to see children who have never met before bonding over shared interests and making plans to finish joint creations next week 💕

11/09/2026

"I'm so happy that HEC has started again!"

"Can I show you this model I made?"

Hearing the kids say things like this, and hearing them encouraging each other, is the best. 🥰

What a beautiful day to be back at Barrington Village Hall for our first autumn session!

25/08/2026

HEC is back September 11th!

Home education group for all ages, every Friday.

Village hall, next to play park & woods in a lovely rural location.

Free flow activities run by families, for families.

Pop us a message if you'd like to visit.

Friendly welcome guaranteed. 🥰

07/06/2026

07/06/2026

There was lots of communication happening at Friday's HEC session, including this small sample:

😍 Working together to build a marble run with the Makedo kit, adjusting the angles of the cardboard tubes and improving the design so the marble went into the cup

😍 Describing the vehicles the kids had made with magnetic shapes, telling me the different features, doubling 3 because there are 3 wheels on each side, learning to use vocabulary like "streamlined" and "air resistance"

😍 Making film canister rockets and testing different amounts of water to see what ratio of air to water makes the rocket go highest, reading written instructions and using fractions like thirds

😍 I didn't even get pictures of the rounders game, the maths puzzles, or the cool cardboard outfit and accessories that were made, or the tea party food that was laid out so beautifully as part of a game!

Learning through doing is normal at HEC.

There are also lots of opportunities to improve our skills at dealing with conflict, and we aim to use circle time to agree on HEC rules collaboratively and talk through any issues.

31/05/2026

The kids loved making these robots!

31/05/2026

Before half term we had 2 brilliant sessions with Edd from Fun Science Exeter covering Gravity, Space and Robots. Thanks for visiting HEC Edd!

08/05/2026

What a fab Puffin Island inspired session today! There were lighthouses and boats made along with some stunning drawings and collages all coming from our book club book, The Puffin Keeper. A great discussion was had about the book before a game of rounders in the sun 🌞🌞