Nursery World - Parental anxiety leads to rise in parents choosing to home school children

Schools are working hard to make sure children catch up with learning lost during lockdown, but are struggling to deal with anxiety from parents that has led to a rise in home-schooling, Ofsted said.

Primary schools are focussing on reading as 'the foundation for wider learning' in children's return to school

Ofsted has published the first in a news series of briefings based on visits to schools in September, that looks at how schools are managing pupils’ return to education under the current Covid-19 restrictions.

The inspectorate said that the report shows that school leaders are working hard to make sure pupils are catching up with their education in difficult circumstances.

However, schools are dealing with misinformation and myths about how they should approach Covid and parental anxiety about safety appears to be behind an increase in the numbers opting to educate their children at home, Ofsted said.

More than a third of the schools visited for the report had noticed a rise in parents taking their children out of school to home school them.

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