General resources for all ages
Libraries
Home educators can request a home educators library card. This lets you borrow up to 20 items, including up to 12 junior non-fiction books and two magazines. You can borrow them for three weeks, or if it's from a mobile library, for 28 days.
Visit your local library or talk to your mobile library driver to get a home educator library card.
See What's on in Norfolk Libraries for events, activities and learning.
Norfolk Museums
Norfolk home educators can get free admission to Norfolk museums on weekdays during school term time.
One adult can go free per child. You must book your visit in advance and give as much notice as possible.
You can find out more about all Norfolk museums and access their websites at Norfolk Museums Service.
Gressenhall's home education offer:
They offer 12 home educator spaces per day.
Admission prices
- Term-time: home-educated children receive free admission for pre-booked visits. One adult per home-educated child goes free
- Weekends, holidays, bank holidays and event days: home-educated children and accompanying adults pay normal museum admission
- Additional adults and non-home-educated children pay normal museum admission
Norwich castle home education offer:
They request that home education groups of more than ten children pre-book, so they are aware of groups attending. Individuals/smaller groups can pre-book on their webshop.
They ask that home educators bring proof of status with them, as they may be asked on the door.
Free admission applies for self-led visits on weekdays during term-time only.
At weekends, bank holidays and holidays, normal admission applies.
One adult per home educated child goes free, with additional adults paying normal admission.
Find more information about home education visits in Norwich.
Resource library
Looking for education resources for various ages and abilities? Take a look at the links outlined below:
- BBC Bitesize - primary, secondary, careers and teacher resources
- BBC Teach - live lessons, 'classroom' projects, times tables, assemblies
- Oxford Owl - free resources for home (ages 3-11)
- Oak National Academy - resources for parents and pupils
- STEM Learning - primary, secondary, post 16 and many more
- Home Education UK - many home education resources and information about home education
- Twinkl - many resources, some paid for and some free, for ages 3-8
- Natural History Museum
- Norfolk & Suffolk Music Hub
- The National Archives - Education sessions and resources
- Royal Museums Greenwich
- White Rose Education - Maths and science resources
