OurVerse™: community education for every mind, body and way of learning
Holistic, rights respecting community education for every mind, body and way of learning.
For children and young people aged 5 to 16, with a bridge to 19, whose education happens in the community rather than in a school building. One licensed framework, lined up with the national curriculum, that sees every young person on their own terms.
Families, community groups, schools and councils use it under licence. Choose your door below to see what it means for you, what it costs and what happens next.
Choose your way in
Pick the door that fits you. Each one is written for you, so you only read what you need.
- Door 1: Families and young peopleLearning outside school, your way
Door 2: Community groupsClubs, co-ops, tutors and small providers
Door 3: Schools and settingsIncluding alternative provision and hospital education
Door 4: Commissioners and councilsWhat OurVerse helps you evidence
Door 5: Guides and practitionersThe adults alongside young people
What makes OurVerse different
Never measured by distance from school
Progress is read against each young person’s own signs, goals and pace. Community education is not a failing.
Strengths and support needs, held together
Nothing deficit based, and nothing erased. Support needs are named and met alongside strengths.
Rights all the way through
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child runs through every part, including a practice culture for the adults.
Paced to energy
Learning is planned around spoons, glimmers and rest. Rest counts, and it never has to be earned.
Wellbeing seen differently
Our own wellbeing and distress scale replaces Leuven. A reading is a snapshot of a day, never a label.
A full curriculum
Key Stages 1 to 4, taught through interests, community learning and real life, with exam and award pathways when ready.
How we work with the system. We work with the systems that hold funding and sign off, because our young people are owed what those systems control. We speak their language and meet their standards, and we refuse the harm that language has carried. Why we measure differently.
How to start
Book a free 15 minute call, or send me an enquiry. Every price is published in full on the licences page. If OurVerse feels right for you, I send you the licence agreement. Once it is signed, a secure payment link follows, and you receive the framework and tools, with the training your licence includes.
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Early years is separate. For children from birth to five, visit The Early Years Ecosystem.
Latest writing
from isolation to innovation
My Substack is where I write about the things I notice: the families who are not at the school gate, the children the system stops seeing, and the spaces I have spent thirty one years creating and curating for us all. You are on the OurVerse site. Each new piece lands here as soon as it is published.