Meet the sisters who are unschooling their children together - and let the kids decide when and what they learn.<br /><br />Kelsey Hall, 29, decided to deregister her son, Logan, seven, from school in March 2023 as he “hated” going.<br /><br />Now she homeschool's him with her sister Rachel Andrew, 24, and her children Mila, four, and Ronnie, two.<br /><br />The pair don’t stick to a rota or schedule and won’t force them to read or study. <br /><br />Instead they do everything on the children's terms – spending time baking, at the beach and taking trips to places such as the police station - to teach the kids about everyday skills.<br /><br />Kelsey said Logan has been happier and more confident since she pulled him out of school – and he is now more willing to learn.<br /><br />Kelsey, a chef and content creator, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, said: “Logan hated school ever since the day he started.<br /><br />“He’d take his uniform off on the way to school. I deregistered him – it was terrifying.<br /><br />“He’s so happy and confident now. Everything we do is on his terms. <br /><br />“We don’t have a rota or a schedule. We're trying to build his confidence.”<br /><br />Rachel, also a chef from Whitehaven, Cumbria, said: “People ask, ‘Do they know how to read and write?’<br /><br />“They do – we go to the shops and talk about money.”<br /><br />The sisters usually start the day with a walk to work along the beach with the kids.<br /><br />Logan, Mila and Ronnie spend the day playing, looking at animals on the beach and baking and cooking.<br /><br />Logan has workbooks to help guide his learning but mum Kelsey won’t force him to go through them – and is led by him.<br /><br />Kelsey said: “We spent the first week just doing fun stuff, to get him used to not being at school.<br /><br />“We do baking – he’ll read the ingredients and do maths as he is weighing them out.”<br /><br />Rachel said: “If he doesn’t want to read, we’ll go to the beach but then he’ll be reading all the signs.<br /><br />“The kids love looking for jellyfish running in the sea – they love the sea.<br /><br />“They do free play. We give them the freedom to play outside.”<br /><br />Rachel, who lives a 10 minute drive from her sister, has always wanted to home school her children after her experience at school.<br /><br />She said: “I was very aware of this life outside of school.<br /><br />“I was forced to do lessons I wasn’t interested in at all. I had so many passions that I wanted to pursue.<br /><br />“I’ve never used my GCSEs.”<br /><br />The siblings loosely choose a focus for the week for the kids to learn about – such as space or animals.<br /><br />They take trips to the local farm and recently visited the police station.<br /><br />Kelsey said: “We loosely focus on something – like this week was space.<br /><br />“But if the kids want to do something else we will.<br /><br />“People say – ‘do you teach them anything?’ <br /><br />“But they’ll have just watched a video of them at the beach looking at sea life and baking. <br /><br />“Were trying to show people it’s an option to home school.”<br /><br />Kelsey said they will give Logan the option to take his GCSEs if he’d like to – and can pay for him to sit them.<br /><br />But they don’t want to pressure him into doing them or going to university.
