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The Creative Education Centre
Fornham All Saints, Bury St Edmunds

We offer a unique part-time education for children aged between 5 and 11 near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. What makes us different is the individual teaching of the core skills using Montessori methods within a focus on the environment and creativity. Our aim is to develop in children a deep care and respect for themselves, for others and for the world in which they live.
We provide home educating families with a place where their children can learn and feel at home. We are a mixed age, nurturing and stimulating educational setting which forms part of a child's overall education.
http://cecentre.wixsite.com/cecentre
Facebook: Creative Education Centre Suffolk
Email: cec@heppers.me.uk

Curious Kids, Childcare and Tutoring
Dawn is a registered childminder with well over 20 years experience of home educating her own children. She childminds children who are Home Educated or whose families are considering that option. She takes children aged 3-7 and is able to take Early Years funding (Head Count Day for funding for Autumn term for SCC is 20th September). She also offers private tutoring for home educated children. She is based in Great Barton, just outside Bury St Edmunds.

Facebook: CKchildcareandtutoring
Email: dawn.canham1@btinternet.com

The Worldly Adventures of Archibold Clutterbuck
The Worldly Adventures of Archibold Clutterbuck is a FREE geography resource teaching children aged 5-11 about the world around them.
Website: http://www.archiboldclutterbuck.co.uk/
Facebook: ArchiboldClutterbuck
Email: archiboldclutterbuck@gmail.com

Suffolk Owl Sanctuary

Unit 22 Stonham Barns
Pettaugh Road
Stonham Aspal
IP14 6AT

email: info@owl-help.org.uk
website: http://www.owl-help.org.uk/
facebook: SuffolkOwlSanctuary

West Suffolk College
14-16 Year Olds
We offer the following Level 1 and 2 part time courses for anyone aged over 14:

Beauty therapy
Business
Construction
Engineering
Hairdressing
Health and social care
Motor vehicle
Sport

Home educated
We’re always happy to support your ‘off-grid’ lifestyle – we’re not exactly the most conventional place after all. In addition to vocational courses for under 16s, we offer GCSE maths and English. We’re also open to tailoring provision based on your progress and the support you need.

How to find out more
Open events – held regularly throughout the year, an opportunity to meet staff and explore options
Call us – 01284 701301 – to make an appointment to discuss your needs.

https://www.wsc.ac.uk/find-a-course/13-16-year-olds

Steph Holland Music

Private tuition in violin, piano and singing based in Bury St Edmunds. Daytime lessons available for home educated children.

www.shollandmusic.co.uk
email: shollandmusic@gmail.com

RSPB Minsmere

Home Education at Minsmere
Price: £6 per child with one accompanying adult free of charge
Booking essential

Seasonal activity mornings for home educated children aged 5 - 11 years.
Our sessions aim to get children learning, socialising and having fun exploring in the natural world.
We will be outside as much as possible so please come prepared to get muddy. Sturdy footwear and waterproofs are advisable
For further information about home education sessions at Minsmere please email christopher.ford@rspb.org.uk

Suffolk Wildlife Trust

Lackford Lakes - Young Wardens
Practical conservation and naturalist skills for 11-16 year olds.
Please pre-book

Knettishall Heath - Junior Rangers
Monthly youth group for 6-12 year olds
Please pre-book

Knettishall Heath - Young Wardens
Practical monthly sessions for unaccompanied 11-16 year olds.
Please pre-book

Redgrave and Lopham Fen - Young Naturalists
Seasonal wildlife identification skills for 11-16 year olds
Please pre-book

Knettishall Heath - Young Wardens
Practical monthly sessions for unaccompanied 11-16 year olds.
Please pre-book

Knettishall Heath - Activity Day for home-educated children
Wildlife and practical activities for home-educated 10-16 year olds.
Please pre-book

Kentwell Hall

Home Educators History Day
Fri 24 May 2019
Kentwell is the originator of historical live educational events in the UK. Since we started, nearly 40 years ago, we've had over half a million schoolchildren pass through our gates.
Our Home Educators History Day is especially for those families who have chosen to educate their children outside of mainstream schools.
This year, we are offering our Home Educator families the ultimate day of time travel, at our History Through The Ages event. Pockets of history, brought to life by Kentwell's skilled living historians will take the visitors through centuries of history will include.

Neolithic Hunters and Gatherers
Medieval
Tudors
Elizabethans
1650s Music and Dance
Regency Emporium and characters
Victorian Household and Staff
WWI Army
WWII Home Front
1960s Peace Camp

You cannot get a better experience in the UK for giving children a real insight into life in the past.

website: http://www.kentwell.co.uk/events
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KentwellHall
email: enquiries@kentwell.co.uk

Regular home ed meet ups and activities

Groups on Facebook:
West Suffolk Home Ed Group
Home Education Suffolk
Home Ed Mummies (in and around Bury St Edmunds)
Suffolk Early Years Home Education Network

Tuesdays:

Curve Motion
First Tuesday of the month 1pm-3pm.
£7 for skate OR play
£8 for skate AND play.
Price includes skate hire

Bredfield group
Bredfield Social Group runs on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month at Bredfield Village Hall. It's very near Woodbridge, so a bit of a trek from Bury, but well worth it! We have a gaggle of teens in the group, along with lots of other age ranges, and although mainly a social get together for families (and a chance for the children to socialise in bigger groups) we do have regular activities such as crafts, fetes, some classes, parties etc., and a shared lunch every week (and lots of cake!). Everybody always welcome. 12 - 5, £4.50 per family.

Wednesdays:

Gymnastics

Bury Spectrum Gymnastics Club
Unit 5, 1 Northern Way,
Bury St Edmunds

Parent and Child (Ages 2.5-5 years)
Wednesdays 2.00-2.45
£30* (6 week term)

Recreational (Ages 4+)
Wednesdays 1pm-2pm
£39* (6 week term)

*Annual insurance fees apply

Facebook: Bury Spectrum Gymnastics Club
Telephone: 01284 700866

Capoeira Class

Wednesdays at Brockley Village Hall, Mill Road, IP29 4AN

Come and experience the beautiful game of Capoeira in our humble rural setting, Brockley Village hall, just outside of Bury St-Edmunds. We will be joined by Mestre Pedro of Senzela Capoeira group in Cambridge who has many years of experience as a teacher to all age groups and is a Capoeira Master. This is a class for both home ed and non home ed children and their parents, as well as anybody else locally who would like to come and experience the magic and fun of this awesome art form.

A brief history:

Capoeira is a martial art/dance/game that originated from the African slaves in Brazil in the 16th century. They disguised their self defence training by pretending that they were singing and dancing so that the slave masters would not bother them. Up until fairly recent times, Capoeira was illegal in Brazil, but is now widely recognised and respected as the true art-form that it really is. It is now practised all over the world by people of all races, ages, and abilities! You will see many Capoeira moves in popular dance styles like Break dancing and urban street dance.

Children £5
Adults £7
Students: £6

Outside play area and village green. Ample parking. See you there!

16:00-16:30
Capoeira kids 4-7
16:30-17:15
Capoeira Kids 7+
17:15-18:30
Capoeira Adult class

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2360363214177114/

Newbourne group
Home ed social meet at Newbourne village hall (inside the Ipswich, Woodbridge, Felixstowe triangle. 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 12 to 4.30. £3.50 per family.

Thursdays:

Explore Outdoor Forest School Sessions
Nowton Park

11-16 years 10am-1pm £24
email: exploreoutdoor@acleisure.com
We have moved to Nowton Park!

Our Forest Schools are focused on the young people who lead the direction of learning and exploration. Participants will take part in a huge range of activities within our Forest School Site and the wider area of Nowton Park. Participants will get to develop practical skills using knives, axes and fire, as well as developing key social and communication skills interacting with both young people and instructors. We will engage explore and examine the local environment, habitats and species and how we can protect and manage these areas sustainably.

We run blocks of 6 weeks throughout the year, breaking for school holidays. Only £16 per session! (£24 if paying on the day)

The sessions are open to all children aged 8-14 years, and run every THURSDAY from 10am-1pm, meeting inside the walled garden at Nowton Park.
Participants will need to bring a packed lunch, snacks and drinking water and personal medication. As well as warm, waterproof clothes and sun protection.

For more information or to book email us at exploreoutdoor@acleisure.com

For more information, a customer information pack, kit list and parental consent form please visit
www.explore-outdoor.org

Fridays:

Tostock Group.
A social HE group for Suffolk. All families welcome. Tostock Village Hall (between Bury St. Edmunds and Stowmarket). First Friday of every month with themed activities or workshops. £4 per family.

Thurston Group
A social HE group for Suffolk. Second and Fourth Fridays of every month.

Thurston younger children/gentle parenting group
Third Friday of every month from 1pm - 3pm at the New Green Centre, Thurston

Bury Spectrum Gymnastics
Bury Spectrum Gymnastics Club
Unit 5, 1 Northern Way,
Bury St Edmunds

Recreational (Ages 4+)
Fridays 10.45-11.45am
£39* (6 week term)

*Annual insurance fees apply

Facebook: Bury Spectrum Gymnastics Club
Telephone: 01284 700866