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Learning about construction
Building machines
Playing with friend
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Model making
Learning to play chess
Family art
Learning abou the world
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Colour making with paints
Colouring techniques
Programing robots
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Mix and match
Cultures
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Arts
Reading new books
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Learning to take photos
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Crafts
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Painting with acrylics
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Making gifts for HE friends
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Home ed park meetup
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Flash cards
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Cake making
Built a bird house
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Problem solving
Learning chess
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Jewellery making
Easter crafts
Craft care
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Woodworking
Painting
Finger painting
Recycling materials
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Rock climbing with friends
Problem solving
Tech works
Make home education easy, fun and memorable
Activities, ideas and inspiration to help you home educate and create a beautiful diary of progress, milestones and memories to reflect, celebrate and treasure
"Easy to use, love the diary layout and seeing what we've done. It's helped make report writing so much easier!"
App coming soon
Plant seeds, watch them grow
Baked cookies and practiced measuring skills
Observe insects, learn about habitats
Read stories, discuss their meanings
Paint pictures, explore different colors
Count coins, practice math skills
Explored chemistry experiments
Create art with recycled materials
Took a look at historical figures and acted out scenes
Study the weather and record daily observations
Learn basic phrases in foreign languages
Write and perform puppet shows
Make homemade musical instruments
Learn about famous artists' masterpieces
Collect leaves and create leaf rubbings
Build a bridge with LEGO
Create a town in Minecraft
Visited a virtual art gallery
Design and solve scavenger hunts
Go stargazing, identify constellations together
Practice yoga and mindfulness exercises
Write poem on expressing emotions
Designed and built a bird feeder
Learn about endangered species
Study anatomy, label body diagrams
Study ancient civilizations, build models
Painted a favourite animation scene
Started programming in Scratch
Learn about nutrition, plan balanced meals
Explore different art techniques
Record keeping made easy
1️⃣ Create an entry
Extremely easy to use, our platform helps you safely and privately save memories and record your child's progress.
You have complete control over if you want to keep it private or share with others.
1️⃣ Create an entry
Extremely easy to use, our platform helps you safely and privately save memories and record your child's progress.
You have complete control over if you want to keep it private or share with others.
2️⃣ saves in your Private Diary
... all entries appear in your Diary/Calendar in one easy to manage place.
saves in your Private Diary
... all entries appear in your Diary/Calendar in one easy to manage place.
3️⃣ Private Portfolio (optional)
... and if you want to share updates with friends or family?
You can choose which entries to add to your childs' portfolio. The Portfolio helps you share only what you choose. You can also set a date for it to expire.
Private Portfolio (optional)
... and if you want to share updates with friends or family?
You can choose which entries to add to your childs' portfolio. The Portfolio helps you share only what you choose. You can also set a date for it to expire.
... plus helpful guides to help you on your home ed journey
Using a blog, Instagram, or a spreadsheet to keep notes?
Import and copy over your notes, dates, records and photos.
Make education fun
Find local home ed events
Discover useful and home education supportive events which are happening around the country.
Find inspiration and activity ideas
Plant seeds, watch them grow
Baked cookies and practiced measuring skills
Observe insects, learn about habitats
Read stories, discuss their meanings
Paint pictures, explore different colors
Count coins, practice math skills
Explored chemistry experiments
Create art with recycled materials
Took a look at historical figures and acted out scenes
Study the weather and record daily observations
Learn basic phrases in foreign languages
Write and perform puppet shows
Make homemade musical instruments
Learn about famous artists' masterpieces
Collect leaves and create leaf rubbings
Build a bridge with LEGO
Create a town in Minecraft
Visited a virtual art gallery
Design and solve scavenger hunts
Go stargazing, identify constellations together
Practice yoga and mindfulness exercises
Write poem on expressing emotions
Designed and built a bird feeder
Learn about endangered species
Study anatomy, label body diagrams
Study ancient civilizations, build models
Painted a favourite animation scene
Started programming in Scratch
Learn about nutrition, plan balanced meals
Explore different art techniques
Learn and earn (badges) with fun challenges
Saving memories and celebrating progress
Save precious memories
Children grow so fast. Our home ed diary helps celebrate your home education journey.
Stay inspired and motivated by easily seeing how much progress you are all making.
By making quick and easy entries into your diary as you go, you can focus on the home education and creating a trail of awesome to look back on later.
A keepsake to treasure
Your diary becomes a special keepsake for your child of their childhood development and milestones.
An interactive pictureboard of your home ed journey.
Like something physical?
Throughout your journey you'll be given an option to have your photos printed into a beautiful photobook.
Plus... Report writing becomes easy-peasy
Take away the stress and anxiety of report writing.
No more writers' block or feeling unsure about what to write.
Simply use the Diary or Portfolio to look back at what your child has done to help make home ed report writing easier.
Loved by home educators
Sarah K
We've been using HEN for a few months and have found it to be really useful to record our home ed journey. I love that it's a familiar social media type layout with everything easy to find and use and that you can choose what to share with who. The customer service is second to none too, the person I spoke to was attentive and compassionate when I spoke with them. Thanks for providing this service HEN team, it's brilliant!
Hollie J
We found out about you from your life skills list. Such a great idea to put it together. We use the list as a challenge checklist to see how many we can tick off as we add it to the diary. Thank you!
Michelle W
Found out about HEN from the life skills list. Such a great idea to put it together. We use the list as a challenge checklist to see how many we can tick off.
Amelia K
I've been trying to move away from social media so its really refreshing to just be able to focus on the home ed. The design is very clean and easy to use which helps less distractions.
Emily R
Going great thanks. Been using it for a few months, and the report writing is so much easier. I like how it splits the details so that I can see what each of my children have done.
Lucie M
I love the way that it makes all my diary entries look so good. I used to keep take photos of all my children's work but there was never a way for me to be able to organise them in a way that made any useful sense. Thank you HEN!
Kerry B
OMG. Thank you so much. We chose to home educate after my son came home crying after being bullied. He struggled with anxiety and seeing our photo diary and all the progress he's made is amazing. It helped confirm for me that home ed was the right thing to do.
Heather T
It has been really helpful thank you. Sadly, we've had a change in circumstances and both have to go back to work but we'd still like to keep the free account so we can look back and pick up again hopefully when we're able to.
Becca M
I took my daughter out of school due to bullying. I was not very good at school myself so I was a bit nervous how things would go as her anxiety would get quite bad but your resources have been really helpful in making it very easy.
Claire W
Haha of course! I actually stopped using social media as it can pretty negative at times and it was nice to find your website. I'll certainly share with my home ed friends when I see them. I think this can help so many people!
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When we started home educating our own children we realised very quickly how overwhelming and scary it all felt.
But like with most things, by taking small steps at a time we quickly became comfortable and more excited.
We loved how exciting unique and happy each child was towards learning.
Home education became fun and inspiring and we were surprised at how much progress we could see in each child, so like many, we decided to keep notes and photos of what we were doing.
It would be lovely to look back at the progress we were making and see how our children were developing.
We loved the idea of being able to look back through old memories.
We kept a physical diary but notebooks got damaged or lost.
We kept a spreadsheet with notes but found it couldn't capture everything we wanted (plus it became sooo boring).
We tried journalling apps but felt it could be done better.
We tried a private social media group but was concerned about privacy and how quickly things could be removed without knowing.
So over the years we built our own tools which worked well for us and now opening it up to the home ed community.
Never underestimate the learning your child does every day.
It's not until you look back that you'll see how far they've come.
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