Home Education follows the everyday lives of six families in Aotearoa educating their children at home. In this episode, Rachel taps into Felix’s passion for history as the means to inspire deeper engagement in his learning.

The new docuseries Home Education is filmed across Aotearoa, in and around the homes of six families who have taken schooling outside the bounds of a traditional classroom. Each family moulds their days to suit them, fostering a love of learning through incorporating elements of Montessori, Waldorf, Unschooling, Te Kura and mātauranga Māori. The students we meet are just a few of over 10,000 who are educated at home in Aotearoa.

Our second episode features Felix, who is high functioning autistic and found it difficult finding a school that fit him. Now, he’s making friends at Forest School where he goes weekly and building up his confidence at improv theatre classes. He’s taught by his mum Rachel, who never thought she would be home educating, ever. 

Struggling at times to keep Felix motivated in his learning at home, Rachel taps into his passion for world history (and their recent discovery of a former top-secret bunker in Mt Eden) as the means to inspire deeper engagement in his learning.

Made with the support of NZ On Air.