DATE: SUNDAY 1OTH MAY 2026
ISSUE: 3
Hello everyone,
This feels like an extra special newsletter! It is the first time we are able to tell you about PinWins… After so long working in secret behind the scenes, it feels good to finally be sharing something so exciting! Today we are giving you a short introduction and we will be sharing more over the next week or so on our social media!
Also, this is the first time we are asking for our entire community to give us feedback! See below for the google form. We would love you to take a couple of minutes to help us by telling us what you think!
AMAZING CLASSES WORTH TRYING
STEAM Wednesdays 11am (5-10 yrs) and 1pm (10-14 yrs)
STEAM = SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, ARTS, AND MATHEMATICS
An important element of STEAM is starting with a challenge. Designing a solution. Testing, reflecting and improving. So if you love to invent, come and join us and watch your ideas come to life!
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Shakespeare Club Thursday 11am
Shakespeare Club (7-11yrs)
Step into a world of kings, queens, fairies, and fools at Shakespeare Club! Together we’ll bring Shakespeare’s stories to life with fun acting games, design challenges, and loads of laughter. Come and join the fun!
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Shakespeare Masterclass
Shakespeare Masterclass (12 – 16 yrs)
Starting to think about Literature GCSEs? Feel like you want to explore new and exciting texts? Or perhaps you are a keen theatre goer and want to be exposed to the best playwright of all time? Then come along to our Shakespeare club for 12-16 year olds.
We will study a play for about a term, the work will be creative and artistic, so you will feel confident in all things Shakespearean!
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PINWINS…
Introducing PinWins…
the new Independent Learning Ecosystem for Home Educated Learners
We’ve been working on something new and exciting and we’re thrilled to finally share it with you.
PinWins is a monthly independent learning subscription for children aged 5–15.
Each month your child chooses 2 bespoke enamel badges to work towards from our exciting modern curriculum spanning 15 incredible learning worlds — from Creativity and Entrepreneurship to Popular Culture, Science and Discovery, and many more.
Every badge comes with a beautifully designed printable Discovery Book and a Reference Guide full of supportive learning materials.
Your child chooses 4 activities that feel “just right” for them in order to win their badge. (The books are packed with learning and they can do more if they want to!).
PinWins is real, structured learning driven entirely by your child’s own choices.
At the end of every month, PinWin families will come together at our PinWins Award Ceremony on Zoom to celebrate what the children have achieved (and finally allow them to have their badges!)
PinWins is designed to work perfectly alongside your LLP classes as a way to extend learning and develop confidence as an independent learner on manageable and enjoyable learning tasks.
Founding Member Special Offer
We’re inviting our LLP families to sign up first — before we open to the rest of the home ed community.
Each monthly subscription includes your child’s 2 cool enamel badges, their printable discovery book and printable reference guide, postage and packaging, and your place at the monthly award ceremony (and VAT) — everything they need to earn their PinWins.
The first 100 memberships pay just £16/month for life. After that, the price will go up to £19/month. Founding Members also receive a FREE PinWins emblem badge in their first order. One PinWin membership per child.
To choose your first badges on June 1st you’ll need to sign up by the end of May.
Only 100 spots available. Full details including our first 7 badges and sign up link coming this week.
WE WOULD LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK
Do you have opinions about LLP? If so we want to hear them! We are asking all LLP existing members if you would consider taking 5 minutes to fill in this quick google form in order to give us much needed feedback. It is completely anonymous and we don’t only want to hear what you love about LLP! Of course it is lovely when we get positive feedback but this form is for the good, the bad and the ugly!
We are committed to making LLP the best experience possible on a daily and weekly basis for you and your children, and your response to this form will allow us to get some accurate data on what our community wants and needs from us.
A MESSAGE
FROM LOLLIPOP
Who recognises Lollipop’s book? She is very much enjoying it. It was recommended to her from one of her friends because they are reading it in the Eager Readers Book Club! If you are an Eager Readers member, we hope you are enjoying it too!
Lollipop is still travelling back from her last visit, but will hopefully be home soon! She is then off to Lincolnshire! She has some more trips planned but is keen to find some more families to visit this summer! So, if you are a Community member and would like Lollipop to visit you please do email us at:
[email protected]
ARE YOU NEW TO HOME EDUCATION OR LEARN LAUGH PLAY?
If you haven’t been home educating for long or you have only just found Learn Laugh Play, we would love to invite you to a free Q and A with Jacqui on Wednesday at 2pm.
You can sign up for this by here.
5 MinuteThinking Prompt Idea
Ask your child: “What’s something you’ve learned recently that you didn’t expect to find interesting?”
They get to ask you the same question too.
Home education has a funny way of teaching the grown-ups too!