UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 14 - Science Experiments at Home - Kitchen Chemistry with William In this episode, Syd is joined by William, he has been a chemistry teacher with UK Virtual School for just over a year now and works with kitchen science with secondary school kids, today he aims to impart some knowledge onto you! 3 Interesting points to take from the episode ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 13 - Why Parent’s love UKVS - An Online School That Thinks Differently In this episode, Syd is joined by Samira, a parent of a student at UK Virtual School and a Lawyer who's been with us for a few years now and has enjoyed it much more than traditional schooling. Why parents love UKVS: ➡ Your children aren't rushed into things that they aren ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 11 - Exploring Worldviews - A unique UKVS curriculum In this episode, Syd is joined by Eloise, a teacher at UK Virtual School who is currently teaching "Worldviews", which is a subject all about the culture of different countries around the world. 3 Reasons why learning about the world is important: ➡ As well as gaining an understanding of dif ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 10 - The Power of an Educator - A Parent's Journey In this episode, Syd is joined by Tomas, an engineer and parent of a student at UK Virtual School who believes that the right educator can drastically change the trajectory of a child's life. 3 Reasons why Educators are so important: ➡ Children are susceptible to gaining personality traits fro ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 9 - A Student Led School - with a short interview with Asher UK Virtual School is a completely student led school, today we welcome Asher onto the podcast, a long time member of UKVS! Key points from this episode: ➡ UKVS allows students to pick who's being recruited to the UK Virtual School family. ➡ The teachers who are best suited for the jo ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 8 - Teaching English the UKVS Way - Spotlight on Teacher Elizabeth! Elizabeth is an English teacher at UK Virtual School, and she is one of the first teachers who was welcomed to the school.  As a master of languages, Elizabeth teaches children both English and Spanish. Key takeaways from this episode: ➡ UK Virtual School gives the teache ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 7 - GCSE Exam Success - First UKVS Cohort! In this episode you'll hear from Syd, the founder of UK Virtual School, on GCSE Results day... And she is SO proud of her first UKVS Cohort of students for doing so well in their exams, so today she discusses the future of UKVS. Important points to take from this episode: ➡ The Cohort overperformed Sy ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 6 - Home Education Vs Traditional Schooling - Mother and Daughter reflections Iokasti has been at UKVS for 2 years, she attended traditional schooling until year 8, but didn't enjoy the format of secondary school at all... Whereas preferred a traditional schooling setting to online, so Iokasti wanted to discuss the differences. 3 Big takeaways ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 5 - From the Big Bang to Physics in the classroom; The real truth about Physics On this episode, Syd is joined by Andrea, a Physics Teacher at UK Virtual School.  They discuss various topics in the realm of physics like aliens, the big bang and a whole bunch of other really cool stuff! They also discuss how Andrea found her love of physic ..read more

UK Virtual School isn’t just any online school – We dare to be different! We offer a flexible online British Education adapted for the modern world, catering for Year 1 to iGCSEs for Home Educating families, Expats, and World Schoolers. Season 3, Episode 4 - The 53 Days Challenge - Meeting families from around the Globe On this episode, Syd discusses her challenge to meet 53 families in 53 days... It didn't go quite as according to plan but she did meet and record some of her meetings. 3 Key points to take away from this episode: ➡ Being online and talking to people in real life isn't THAT muc ..read more