Homeschool Resources

Home Time.
Email: r.barns@lse.ac.uk

Home Time is an occasional newsletter with practical hints, personal observations and support for the Christian home-schooling family. A subscription to Home Time is included in Home Service membership (see below).

Home Service, 48 Heaton Moor Road, Heaton Moor, Stockport SK4 4NX, UK.
Web: http://www.thehomeservice.org

Home Service provides support for Christian home-schoolers, including skills testing. Membership is £10 per year, which includes a subscription to Home Time (see above), a homeschool contact list, useful leaflets, and a card which entitles you to reduced rates at various museums. They provide free progress testing for 8-13 year olds on request, and organise conferences.

Education Otherwise, PO Box 3761, Swindon, SN2 9GT, UK.
Helpline: 0845 478 6345.
Web: http://www.education-otherwise.net

Education Otherwise is not a specifically Christian organisation, but can provide useful help to home-schooling families.

Home Education Advisory Service, PO Box 98, Welwyn Garden City, Herts. AL8 6AN, UK.
Tel: 01707 371854.
Email: enquiries@heas.org.uk
Web: http://www.heas.org.uk

Home Education Advisory Service provides for its subscribers a quarterly bulletin, a registration card giving free or reduced rates of admission to certain museums and sites of interest, an Advice Line for curriculum advice, a regional list of subscribers and a loan library.

Homeschool Reviews
Web: http://www.homeschoolreviews.com

This useful site allows homeschool curriculum users to conbtribute and read reviews of all varieties of curriculum.

Christian Education Europe, PO Box 770, Highworth, Swindon, Wiltshire SN6 7TU, UK.
Tel/Fax: 01793 783783.
Email: ChristianEducationEurope@compuserve.com
Web: http://www.christian-education.org (CEE Europe) or http://www.schooloftomorrow.com (general ACE site in U.S.A.)

Christian Education Europe supply Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) material. They also operate a National Christian College, providing support, curriculum material and conferences. The National Christian Schools Certificate will be of interest to parents with older children.

NorthStar Worldwide
Web: http://www.northstarworldwide.org

NorthStarWorldwide is a community of learners and tutors using the internet to learn and study together. It uses the Internet to link students with other students and qualified tutors who facilitate formal education and mark assignments.

Home Life Ministries, PO Box 77, St. Neots, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE19 4JN, UK.
Email: info@hlm.org
Web: http://www.hlm.org

Home Life Ministries is dedicated to restoring Biblical values to the homes of Britain (and beyond) through radio broadcasts, church seminars, Biblical counseling, and the supply of quality resources that will help strengthen Christian marriages, families and individuals. They also supply material suitable for home-schoolers.

Gem Books, 151 Halley Road, Forest Gate, London E7 8DX, UK.
Tel: 0181 470 7125.

Gem Books supply educational supplementary projects three times a year. They include biblically-based work on English and Maths plus a special project. Subscription is £14 per year (includes telephone helpline). They can also supply one-off workbooks.

Rainbow Books
Email: RainbowBooks@onetel.co.uk

Rainbow Books' aim is to supply a range of reliable and trustworthy literature for children and young people that will encourage a lifetime of reading and nurture their knowledge of God. Many other titles also available. For a catalogue please write, email or phone.

Christian Schools Trust, 8 Ascension Road, Chase Cross, Romford, Essex RM5 3RS, UK.
Tel/Fax: 01708 751 865.

The Christian Schools Trust links Christian schools of all kinds throughout the country, developing Christian curriculum and resource materials. They supply (for £6) a Directory of Curriculum Resources, which they publish primarily for Christian schools.

Growing Families International
9259 Eton Ave.
Chatsworth, CA 91311, USA.
1-800-474-6264
Web: http://www.gfi.org

We have found the Growing Kids God's Way tapes and manuals by Gary and Anne-Marie Ezzo to be helpful. Available from Christian Education Europe (above), or Growing Families International.