Morning! Here's your week
Three children, one plan. Pick a way to start, or carry on where you left off.
Plan from a moment
Tell us what's happening - a trip, a mood, an obsession - and we'll find the learning in it and build a package.
Follow the curriculum
Build structured lessons and sequences toward the objectives each child needs, tracked automatically.
planned across 4 days
of this year's objectives
topics ready for retrieval
A learning package is ready - 6 activities, covering 4 curriculum objectives.
Plan from a moment
Tell us what is happening. We find the learning in it once, for everyone.
Tides & measurement
Read the tide times; measure how far the sea moves each hour.
NC · KS2 Maths (Y3) - measure & compare lengths (m/cm/mm)Rock-pool classification
Sort what you find - living, dead, never alive - and group the creatures.
NC · KS2 Science (Y4) - group living things; use classification keysBeach diary
Write the day as a recount - with a Sonic-speed "fastest find" challenge.
NC · KS2 English (LKS2) - compose & organise a recountCoast & erosion
Why is the cliff that shape? Watch the waves do their slow work.
NC · KS2 Geography - physical processes (topic-linked enrichment)Sandcastle engineering
Which shape stands up to a wave? Test, fail, rebuild.
NC · KS2 D&T - strengthen & reinforce structuresWater safety
Flags, currents, and the one rule that matters most.
Wider learning - water safety (PSHE, non-statutory)The activity is the same for all of them. What changes is what you expect back, and no child is told which one is theirs.
Scale the recipe & the budget
Adjust quantities for 5 people; keep it under £15; work out cost per portion.
NC · KS3 Maths - ratio, proportion & percentage changeA balanced plate
Build the meal around the principles of nutrition; cook a savoury dish from scratch.
NC · KS3 D&T - principles of nutrition; cook savoury dishesBudgeting & money
Plan the shop, track the spend, handle the trade-offs of a tight budget.
NC · KS3 Citizenship - money, budgeting & managing riskThe chemistry of cooking
What's a physical change and what's chemical? Watch it happen in the pan.
NC · KS3 Science - chemical vs physical changesWrite the method
Turn the cook into clear instructions someone else could follow.
NC · KS3 English - writing for a clear purposeCooking safely
Knives, heat, hygiene - the life-skill running underneath it all.
Wider learning - kitchen safety & independenceFollow the curriculum
Structured lessons and sequences - for the objectives Otis needs to secure.
A year overview from your hours-per-week - terms and topics mapped out.
Each topic broken into a unit of linked objectives.
Each one a full SEQUENS lesson, themed to Otis, worksheet optional.
Ready-made units
Pre-built learning for the things home educators do - pull one and go, or use it as a starting point.
A day at the beach
Nature walk
Baking together
Museum visit
Lego & structures
Growing things
Otis's coverage map
Everything covered, and everything left - against the National Curriculum or your own goals, pulled from both structured lessons and real life. Gaps are normal - every family has them. This is a map for choosing what’s next, not a judgement.
Ready to revisit
Taught once, remembered for good. These are due a quick, low-stakes look - not re-teaching.
Secure 3 weeks ago · a 5-minute recall keeps it sharp
Secure last month · fold it into the "growing things" unit
Practised · ready to move toward secure
Secure · weave into the beach diary
Reports
Turn the learning into a clean record - for your own files, an end-of-year keepsake, or the local authority if they ask, or a school if your child is returning. You choose what it’s measured against.
SEQUENS helps you evidence learning your way. It doesn't define what your local authority requires - that varies, and home education has no single rulebook.
Otis · Learning record
Includes a narrative summary, photo space, and the full objective list - exportable as PDF.
Otis
The more SEQUENS knows about Otis, the more it builds around him.
About Otis
8 · working around Year 3
Early fluent · we match every text to this
Autistic · prefers predictable structure, one step at a time
What Otis loves
Interests become the doorway - reading material and scaffolds are themed to them.
On - SEQUENS makes a worksheet where it helps, and shows you simple ways to record what Otis has learned.
Rock-pool sorting
Writing a recount · about 40 minutes · logs to the coverage map
Nobody is doing a different afternoon. They are all writing about the same beach. What changes is what you expect back, and no child is told which one is theirs.
Talk it over
Ask Otis about the best bit of the beach. What happened first? Just chat - you're warming up his memory.
Sort two, out loud
Take two finds and put them in the same pile, saying why as you do it. Then take one that does not fit, and say why not.
Sort the pile together
Put everything you collected into groups, out loud, before anyone writes anything down. Disagree with each other. That is the useful part.
Right order?
Mix up three moments and see if Otis can put them back in order. If yes, he's ready to write.
Write the diary
Otis writes his beach diary using the sheet. The "fastest find" challenge keeps his fast-blue-hero energy in it.
Read it back
Read it together and celebrate one brilliant sentence. That's the bit he'll remember.
📖 Otis's reading early fluent
Written to match Otis’s reading level and interests. Themed material is for his private use; anything you share or export uses motifs (speed, rings), not the character.
✎ Beach diary sheet worksheet · on
Then… ____________________
The best bit… ____________________
My fastest find… 🐚 ____________
A gentle frame so Otis knows where to start. Turn off any time in his profile.
📌 Capture today's learning
Any one is plenty. We add it to the right child's record, and that is your evidence sorted.
◫ Covers
NC · KS2 English (LKS2) - compose a recountMarking this done moves it forward on the coverage map.
What happened at the beach?
How a recount works: first, then, after
Tell the day in order
Put these moments in order
Write your beach diary
Read it back together
Present mode runs full-screen with arrow keys. The images and the reading slide are themed to Otis and matched to his reading level. Choose a calm or bright deck style in his profile.
How did they do?
Tap a level for each - the words write themselves, and it sets Otis's level on the coverage map. No typing.
Why did war break out in 1914?
Causes of the First World War · ~60 min · a full curriculum lesson, themed for Nell
The spark
June 1914: one assassination in Sarajevo. Recall who Franz Ferdinand was - and why a single death could matter this much.
Model the long-term causes - MAIN
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism. Build them on the Spokes Frame as the pressures that were already building before 1914.
Connect the spark to the system
Use "so that…" chains: the alliance system meant a local crisis pulled in the great powers, so that within weeks six empires were at war.
Catch the misconception
"Which BEST explains why one assassination became a world war?" - A) it was simply a tragic murder · B) the alliance system dragged the great powers in · C) Germany alone wanted war · D) it was inevitable. Many choosing A or C → re-model the alliance web.
Build an argument
Nell writes a paragraph prioritising the most significant cause and justifying it - colour-coded support, from sentence stems to a counter-argument challenge.
Rank & justify
Exit task: rank MAIN + the trigger, and finish - "The most significant cause was… because…". A GCSE-style judgement in miniature.
◷ Frame · Spokes blank - model it
📖 Nell's reading Y9 · interest-themed
Pitched to Nell's reading level and interest (strategy games). Private use; shared exports use neutral framing.
◈ Differentiation key teacher-only
◫ Covers
NC · KS3 History - the First World WarMarking this done logs it to Nell's coverage map.
June 1914 - the spark
MAIN: the long-term causes
From spark to system
Why did it become a world war?
Which cause mattered most?
Rank & justify
A projector-ready deck on the same six-part spine. The Spokes Frame slide builds live; the source/quote slides can carry a confirmed video. Present mode: full-screen, arrow keys, teacher-prompts toggle.
Rubric - cause & consequence
Tap a level for each criterion; the feedback writes itself and logs to Nell's coverage map.
Learning record
Ready to print, save as PDF, or email to your local authority.
Home Education Learning Record
This record covers three children in one household. Each child has their own section below. Coverage figures are per child and are not averaged, because an average across three ages would not mean anything to anybody.
Shared activities are recorded once and counted for each child against their own stage. The beach recount below appears in all three sections, with a different expectation attached to each.
Our approach to Otis’s education
Otis is educated at home through a blend of planned, structured lessons and interest-led, real-world learning. We use the England National Curriculum as a guide for coverage and progression, while allowing Otis’s curiosity to shape how and when topics are explored. Learning takes place through focused sessions, family trips and projects, daily reading, and everyday life - chosen to suit his age, ability and the way he learns best.
Coverage this year
Progress against the National Curriculum for Otis’s stage, drawn from both structured lessons and recorded real-world learning.
What Otis has been learning
English. Otis writes for different purposes - most recently a beach recount using time-order language - and reads fluently at an early-fluent level. He is building stamina in extended writing.
Mathematics. Number and place value, measurement (length, mass, time), and an introduction to equivalent fractions, much of it applied practically through measuring, cooking and telling the time.
Science. Living things and their habitats (grouping and classification, explored at rock pools), the parts and life cycle of plants, and how we see light - hands-on and enquiry-led.
Foundation subjects. History, geography, art and PSHE covered broadly through projects and trips - local history, coasts and the water cycle, and personal safety.
Learning beyond the curriculum
This year Otis completed 12 cross-curricular real-world projects, including a full day’s study at the beach, a nature classification walk, baking (following a method and measuring accurately), and a local museum visit. These develop curiosity, independence and the ability to apply learning in context - strengths of a home education.
How we record Otis’s learning
We keep an ongoing portfolio: photographs of finished work, written pieces, and short voice recordings of Otis reading aloud and explaining his thinking. A representative sample is available on request.
Focus for the year ahead
- Extend written pieces with more detail and a wider range of connectives.
- Secure equivalent fractions and progress to comparing and ordering fractions.
- Continue building scientific vocabulary through hands-on enquiry.
This record was prepared by Otis’s parent to evidence his education. SEQUENS Home helps families organise and present their child’s learning; it does not determine what any local authority requires, which varies by area and circumstance, and it is not legal advice. Coverage percentages reflect learning logged by the family against their chosen framework (England National Curriculum, 2014) and are an aid to reflection, not a formal assessment.
Otis’s year in review
A warm summary of the whole year - to keep, to print, or to share.
Otis’s Year in Review
2025–2026 · a year of learning at home
What a year, Otis. You went from writing single sentences to filling a beach diary; from counting to sharing fractions; from naming animals to grouping them like a scientist. Here’s the whole of it in one place.
How Otis grew this year
Proudest moments
Add your own photos before printing - the spaces above are ready for them.
Coverage this year
The year ahead
Next year we’ll build longer pieces of writing, secure fractions and start comparing them, and keep following Otis’s questions wherever they lead. Onward.
A keepsake summary prepared by Otis’s family with SEQUENS Home. Coverage figures reflect learning logged against the family’s chosen framework (England National Curriculum, 2014) and are an aid to reflection, not a formal assessment. SEQUENS Home does not determine local-authority requirements, which vary; this is not legal advice.