YHA Blog
YHA’s Director of Strategy and Engagement, Anita Kerwin-Nye discusses the importance of making residentials a possibility for those who are homeschooled.Residentials – time away from home with peers and often without parents – have a significant impact on...
Home schooling during lockdown? Looking for inspiration to help keep young minds active and entertained? Our free children's activity pack is bursting with things for kids to make, learn and do.Crafts, recipes, wildlife facts and more – everything you need for a...
Home schooling is hard. Super hard. Even harder than before. Darkness doesn’t help. But also, we seemed to have fewer expectations last time – now government ‘expects’ three to four hours of home schooling a day. There’s been an increase in the number of great...
Residentials are a right of passage and a key tool used by schools to support transitions. At YHA alone, over 200,000 young people missed their transition time away this year – whether the traditional year 6 post SATs residential, NCS summer camps or University...
In December last year YHA, The Outward Bound Trust, Scouts, Girlguiding, Field Studies Council and the National Parks came together as a coalition of non-for-profit school residential and educational providers.Our aim is simple; to ensure that there are...
A new study has revealed the perfect proximity to nature that your child will need to succeed at school. The study undertaken by Zip World looked at the top 20 best performing primary schools in the UK courtesy of Gov.uk and has revealed the perfect balance of...
School trips are a great way for pupils to enjoy a unique learning experience outside a classroom environment. School trips are not only good fun, but they allow pupils to interact and immerse themselves in a practical way. This is surely best achieved through the...
There is a growing number of educators who are putting sustainability at the heart of their school and pupils’ educational journey and inspiring a new generation of green champions. These stakeholders of the planet (spearheaded by the likes of 16-year-old Greta...
