UK Virtual School Podcast (UKVS)

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 5, Episode 12 - Are Home Educated Kids Weird? - Busting the Stereotypes There's a common question that comes up to home educating parents - "isn't home educating kind of weird?", today Syd busts that stereotype: ➡ Being "weird" is just a label, we love to label things as soon as we can to let the brain make sense of them. ➡ Weird isn't always a negative term, a lot of the giants in business were once labelled weird. ➡ Socialisation in home educated children are just as good if not better than children taught in traditional schooling, and the facts back that up. 🔗Links for this episode Interested in Joining Us? Check out this Link: https://ukvirtualschool.co.uk/   Please use your podcast app to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE, so you never miss an episode of UK Virtual School.   More about Syd (Our Founder) Syd is the founder and visionary behind UK Virtual School, which was set up in the peak of the pandemic, when the need for an alternative online education system became far more clearer. Syd has worked extensively with home educating families over the last 11 years and has spent her life in the education sector as a qualified teacher in state, grammar and private schools before settling to work full time on her educational projects, namely Femtinos. Join us as we explore the core values of innovation, curiosity, growth mindset and inclusion & diversity which are embedded in the fabric of UKVS: 💻 Find us on www.ukvirtualschool.com 📩 Reach out to us: [email protected] 🔗 Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/UkVirtualSchool 🤼 Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/291678232050202

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 5, Episode 11 - 4 Years at UKVS with Enaya - Online and in-person fun! In this episode, Syd speaks to Enaya; a UKVS student of 4 years, about her journey from leaving traditional schooling with less confidence and building it back up and becoming an extrovert at UKVS. Here are some key takeaways: ➡ UKVS offer more than just online schooling with many in-person events throughout the year. ➡ Online schooling can raise children's confidence after having it knocked with traditional schooling. ➡ Children can make friends abroad with UKVS and broaden their horizons. 🔗Links: Interested in Joining Us? Check out this Link: https://ukvirtualschool.co.uk/ Please use your podcast app to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE, so you never miss an episode of UK Virtual School.   More about Syd (Our Founder) Syd is the founder and visionary behind UK Virtual School, which was set up in the peak of the pandemic, when the need for an alternative online education system became far more clearer. Syd has worked extensively with home educating families over the last 11 years and has spent her life in the education sector as a qualified teacher in state, grammar and private schools before settling to work full time on her educational projects, namely Femtinos. Join us as we explore the core values of innovation, curiosity, growth mindset and inclusion & diversity which are embedded in the fabric of UKVS: 💻 Find us on www.ukvirtualschool.com 📩 Reach out to us: [email protected] 🔗 Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/UkVirtualSchool 🤼 Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/291678232050202

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 5, Episode 10 - From Law Books to Logarithms: An Unconventional Route to Teaching In this episode, Syd speaks to Jessica; a UKVS maths teacher, about her journey from learning about law and going straight into teaching maths. Here are some key takeaways: ➡ Going from subject to subject isn't hard if those subjects are even mildly related. ➡ AI likely won't replace good teachers in their roles, they don't offer the human aspect of a teacher. ➡ Being a teacher is really fun and it's really inspiring to see future generations grow and thrive. 🔗Links: Interested in Joining Us? Check out this Link: https://ukvirtualschool.co.uk/ Please use your podcast app to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE, so you never miss an episode of UK Virtual School.   More about Syd (Our Founder) Syd is the founder and visionary behind UK Virtual School, which was set up in the peak of the pandemic, when the need for an alternative online education system became far more clearer. Syd has worked extensively with home educating families over the last 11 years and has spent her life in the education sector as a qualified teacher in state, grammar and private schools before settling to work full time on her educational projects, namely Femtinos. Join us as we explore the core values of innovation, curiosity, growth mindset and inclusion & diversity which are embedded in the fabric of UKVS: 💻 Find us on www.ukvirtualschool.com 📩 Reach out to us: [email protected] 🔗 Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/UkVirtualSchool 🤼 Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/291678232050202 ➡ The end of year trips allow students and teachers to become even closer after stabilising a connection online.

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 5, Episode 9 - From St Andrews to Stateside: Chemistry Journey Across Borders In this episode, Syd speaks to Sara - an established science teacher at UK Virtual School - about her journey from Scotland to the US, how she found UKVS and how to teach science virtually. Here are some key takeaways: ➡ Science isn't just about the outcome of an experiment, but how you get to that outcome. ➡ Doing experiments that are gore-y isn't the only way, there are case studies that don't have to be so gruesome. ➡ Online schooling offers teachers and children the option to work from the comfort of their own home and be more confident in that space. 🔗Links: Interested in Joining Us? Check out this Link: https://ukvirtualschool.co.uk/ Please use your podcast app to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE, so you never miss an episode of UK Virtual School.   More about Syd (Our Founder) Syd is the founder and visionary behind UK Virtual School, which was set up in the peak of the pandemic, when the need for an alternative online education system became far more clearer. Syd has worked extensively with home educating families over the last 11 years and has spent her life in the education sector as a qualified teacher in state, grammar and private schools before settling to work full time on her educational projects, namely Femtinos. Join us as we explore the core values of innovation, curiosity, growth mindset and inclusion & diversity which are embedded in the fabric of UKVS: 💻 Find us on www.ukvirtualschool.com 📩 Reach out to us: [email protected] 🔗 Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/UkVirtualSchool 🤼 Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/291678232050202 ➡ The end of year trips allow students and teachers to become even closer after stabilising a connection online.

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 5, Episode 8 - From London to Morocco - Starting a New Life and Career In this episode, Syd speaks to Sadaf - a Biology teacher who started working at UKVS a year ago - all about how she made her big move to Morocco and eventually found UK Virtual School and hasn't looked back. Here are some key takeaways: ➡ Packing up and moving away from your area can be hard, but it can put you in just the places you need to be to move forward. ➡ Online Schooling allows Sadaf to work from home, an amazing luxury for a mother and it scratches that teaching itch she has. ➡ Moroccan culture is beyond awesome! 🔗Links: Interested in Joining Us? Check out this Link: https://ukvirtualschool.co.uk/ Please use your podcast app to FOLLOW or SUBSCRIBE, so you never miss an episode of UK Virtual School.   More about Syd (Our Founder) Syd is the founder and visionary behind UK Virtual School, which was set up in the peak of the pandemic, when the need for an alternative online education system became far more clearer. Syd has worked extensively with home educating families over the last 11 years and has spent her life in the education sector as a qualified teacher in state, grammar and private schools before settling to work full time on her educational projects, namely Femtinos. Join us as we explore the core values of innovation, curiosity, growth mindset and inclusion & diversity which are embedded in the fabric of UKVS: 💻 Find us on www.ukvirtualschool.com 📩 Reach out to us: [email protected] 🔗 Follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/UkVirtualSchool 🤼 Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/291678232050202 ➡ The end of year trips allow students and teachers to become even closer after stabilising a connection online.