Home Educators

We run a monthly home ed group at Great Dixter.

Sessions focus on seasonal activity in the garden and woods and include art, cooking, and science as well as a forest school approach to learning in the woods, with learners developing their own ideas and themes.

£20 for a family with more than one child, £10 for single child families, and include snacks which we make, activities and facilitation by education officer, Catherine.

The group will be mixed age. 
Sessions will start at 10am and finish at 1:30.

Sessions are planned for: 18^th March, 22^nd April, 13^th May, 17^th June, 

15^th July, 19^th August, 23^rd September, 14^th October, 18^th November, 9^th December. 

For more information and monthly reminders please sign up to our mailing list

18th March 2025

March’s session will include a propagation activity- we need to get sowing the vegetable seeds for the learning garden and our Nursery Scholar Isabel will be around with another vegetative propagation technique- this time basal cuttings.

We’ll visit the garden and observe all the changes that will have occurred since the February session- there will be carpets of daffodils and spring blossom to spot.
Then we’ll return to the room, make some flatbreads to have with foraged wild garlic in the woods, and head to the woods for a free-flow afternoon with a fire, I’ll bring along some ideas for a whittling project for anyone who wants a project.

You can book your tickets for March here.