Home Educators: If you have more than one child and planning is starting to feel overwhelming, family‑style learning can be a game‑changer. Instead of juggling separate plans for each year group, you teach one shared topic to all your children while still covering the full curriculum.

How does it work? Rather than following year‑group‑specific topics, you follow a Year A–F cycle. Some topics repeat over the years, while others are explored in more depth as your older children grow.

Many families begin Year A when their eldest child turns 7. Before this, KS1 children may have been learning through play, phonics, and gentle skills‑based activities. From age 7, the whole family moves through the cycle together: Year A, then B, then C, and so on.

When a younger sibling reaches age 7, they simply join in with whatever year the family is currently studying - whether that’s B, C, or D. When you reach Year F, you loop back to Year A as your eldest begins preparing for GCSE‑level study.

If you’d like to see how this looks across the full cycle, then download this free plan