UK Virtual School Podcast (UKVS)

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 5, Episode 12 - Are Home Educated Kids Weird? - Busting the Stereotypes There's a common question that comes up to home educating parents - "isn't home educ...

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 5, Episode 11 - 4 Years at UKVS with Enaya - Online and in-person fun! In this episode, Syd speaks to Enaya; a UKVS student of 4 years, about her journey fr...

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 5, Episode 10 - From Law Books to Logarithms: An Unconventional Route to Teaching In this episode, Syd speaks to Jessica; a UKVS maths teacher, about her jo...

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 5, Episode 9 - From St Andrews to Stateside: Chemistry Journey Across Borders In this episode, Syd speaks to Sara - an established science teacher at UK Vir...

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 5, Episode 8 - From London to Morocco - Starting a New Life and Career In this episode, Syd speaks to Sadaf - a Biology teacher who started working at UKVS...

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 5, Episode 7 - Top Marks for GCSEs - A Future Writer in the Making In this episode, Syd speaks to Abby - a GCSE finisher for UKVS - and her mum about her re...

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 5, Episode 6 - 5 Years at UKVS - Transition from Primary to Secondary In this episode, Syd speaks to Hope, a student that's been with UK Virtual School sinc...

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 5, Episode 5 - From Classroom to Online Teaching - How Teaching Has Evolved In this episode, Syd talks to Karina - a Primary School Teacher at UKVS - about...

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 5, Episode 4 - Racing Through Life with Student Jessie - BMX Racer, Photographer & Entrepreneur In this episode, Syd talks to Jessie, a rising star at U...

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 5, Episode 3 - Computer Science Through Time - How Tech Has Evolved In this episode, Syd talks to UKVS Teacher David as they discuss how tech has evolved ov...

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 5, Episode 2 - Athens & Santorini - A Family Trip with UKVS In 2024 UKVS went on a residential trip to Athens and Santorini - today join Syd as her and...

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 5, Episode 1 - A New Chapter for UKVS, 5 Years Down A new year for UK Virtual School is about to kick off, Syd explains the goings on around UKVS as the new...

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. Here's a brief trailer to give you some insight into some of the upcoming shows.  If you're new here, and haven't yet listened to Season One, Two, Three, or Four;...

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 4, Episode 14 - Exciting things to come! - UKVS in 2025 2025 is going to be a HUGE year for UKVS, here are some of the most exciting aspects of UK Virtual S...

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 4, Episode 13 - Family Residential Trip - A Parent’s Perspective Thomas is a parent of a child at UK Virtual School, he's just been on a trip to Greece and...

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 4, Episode 12 - Navigating ADD & Friendship - A Student's perspective Daania is a Year 7 student at UK Virtual School, she's been going to UKVS for a fe...

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 4, Episode 11 - From Cyber Bullying to Homeschooling - A Student Journey to UKVS Evie's just joined UK Virtual School in September as a Year 10 after enduri...

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 4, Episode 10 - Martha’s Adventure in Greece - UKVS Home Ed Trip Martha's a 12 year old student at UK Virtual School, along with some other students she's j...

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 4, Episode 9 - In Person Science Week - From Virtual to Physical Do you want to take a trip into the world of science for a week? Syd is offering you that c...

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 4, Episode 8 - UKVS Trip to Greece - Preparing for a Mythological Adventure Have you ever wanted to go on an adventure around greek mythology? The kids at U...

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 4, Episode 7 - Doing Things That Scare Us - Our History Teachers first Year at UKVS : With Vicki What scares you? Would it benefit you to get over that fear...

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 4, Episode 6 - Lawrence’s Journey at UKVS - A student perspective : With Lawrence (Student) In this episode, hear from Lawrence, he's been at UK Virtual Sch...

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 4, Episode 5 - Teacher turned Home Ed Parent - Journey from Anti-Home Ed, to Home Ed Champion Do you feel like home education has more negatives than it doe...

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 4, Episode 4 -  Back to school - Start of the New School Year A new academic year is finally here! So let's see what's changed around UK Virtual School for...

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 4, Episode 3 - Adventure to the Sahara - Our first residential Trip To Morocco Do you love the idea of abroad residential trips to let your child meet their...