Home Education follows the everyday lives of six families in Aotearoa educating their children at home. In this episode we meet Irma and her boys, who are learning while following their passions.

The new docu-series 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.

Episode three introduces Irma, who left her career as a chartered accountant to home educate her two sons. When her eldest son was attending school, his love for ballet became an open secret. But now, “you don’t have to hide,” says Irma, who feels her children’s formative years are too precious to miss. Irma now fields questions like “does space have a bottom?” following Montessori and Unschooling education principles. 

Made with the support of NZ On Air.