[The Guardian] Pets, plants and cuddly toys: a child's eye view of home schooling – in pictures

Pets, plants and cuddly toys: a child's eye view of home schooling – in pictures

How are children finding home learning? Photographer Nina Raingold asked year 3 and 4 pupils across the country to share their views and passions

• ‘They are scared to try new things’: how is home school impacting young children?

At the end of March last year, photographer and picture editor Nina Raingold, faced with home schooling her seven- and three-year-olds, came up with an idea. Inspired by a training course she had taken with PhotoVoice, a charity that believes “participatory” photography can inspire social change, she persuaded her daughter’s schoolmates to pick up a camera (or a parent’s phone) and document their lives. “I thought it might help them deal with their anxiety and sudden isolation from one another. It was never about getting beautiful pictures; it was more about the process.”

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