Home Education follows the everyday lives of six families in Aotearoa educating their children at home. Meet Felix, who didn’t fit in at school, but is making friends elsewhere.

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, incorporating Montessori, correspondence school, Unschooling, ballet, improv theatre, Te Kura, Waldorf and mātauranga Māori to work towards their goals. 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 autistic and found it difficult to fit in at school. Now, he’s making friends at Forest School where he goes weekly and building up his confidence at improv theatre classes. For the rest of the week, he’s taught by his mum Rachel, who never thought she would be home educating, ever. 

Along with their two dachshunds, they investigate a secret war bunker in Mount Eden, the subject of Felix’s history essay. The history lover, however, is not so keen on maths. Rachel is always looking for good ways to teach it – at the moment it’s writing numbers on Post-It notes and then opening fire on them with a Nerf gun, but only if they’re divisible by nine.

Made with the support of NZ On Air.