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Duolingo

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Bite-sized language lessons that play like a game, with streaks and points to keep you coming back. Good for building a daily habit.

Dozens of languages, plus maths, music and chess. The core courses are free with adverts; the paid subscription removes them and adds extras, with a free week to try it. It's built for the app, though it works in a browser too.

British Sign

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Free British Sign Language resources: an A to Z dictionary with videos, a fingerspelling player, quizzes and printable charts. Something the whole family can learn together.

All of that is free. There's also a paid, CPD-certified online course (ten self-study sections, about 20 hours) if you want to go further.

Tate Kids

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Tate's site for children: art games and quizzes, things to make, videos about artists, and a gallery where children can share their own work.

It's free. Children can make pictures with Tate Paint and send their art in to be shown on the site, so it's worth setting that up together.

Art UK

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The UK's public art collections in one place: around a million artworks you can search by artist, place or subject. Handy for finding what's hanging in a museum near you.

It covers more than 75,000 artists and 3,500 venues, free to explore, with a Learn section and listings of what's on in UK museums and galleries.

Making Music Fun

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Easy sheet music, music theory worksheets and a free composing app for younger children. Handy if you're starting piano at home.

It's American and aimed at primary-age children. The Composing with Kids app is free with no download, and the Piano Academy's 100-plus video lessons are free to watch. Unlimited printables cost $36 a year, but plenty is free without it.

Barclays LifeSkills

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Free lessons, activities and tools to help young people get ready for work, from Barclays.

There are separate routes for young people, educators and families, and it runs a national skills competition for 11 to 25-year-olds.

NatWest Thrive

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Free money and future-skills resources for parents and teachers, sorted by age and topic: earning, enterprise, careers and spotting scams.

There's a free digital escape room called Unlocked that teaches young people to recognise and deal with fraud and scams, and careers activities with Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes. You register for free to use it.

Money Heroes

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Free money lessons for ages 3 to 11 from the charity Young Enterprise, with storybooks and games starring Ed and Bunny. A gentle start on how money works, including the invisible kind.

There are home activities as well as school ones, free storybooks and eBooks, a digital game, and Welsh-language versions. You sign up for free to download.

HE Exams Wiki

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Written by home educators for home educators: everything about sitting exams outside school, from finding an exam centre to choosing a board. The place to start if exams are on the horizon.

It covers getting started, arranging and sitting exams as a private candidate, studying, alternative qualifications and post-16 options. It's a free wiki hosted on Fandom, so there are adverts.

Cognito

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Free GCSE and A-level revision: video lessons, notes, quizzes, flashcards and exam questions, all in one place.

It covers 15 subjects across ten UK and international boards, including AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, CCEA and SQA, so it works in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland too. Its videos have more than 184 million views on YouTube. A free account keeps track of progress.

Save My Exams

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Revision notes, past papers and exam questions by topic and difficulty for GCSE, IGCSE and A-level, made by examiners and teachers.

Some of it is free to try, but most of the notes and questions need a paid membership. It's specific to each exam board, so pick your board and specification before you start.

Home Education Tracker

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Somewhere to log what you've done as you go (tasks, classes, books, visits, milestones) so the end-of-year report nearly writes itself.

Tag each entry by subject or project, add photos, and look back over any stretch of time by subject or activity type. There's a free trial, then a paid plan.