The Family School

The Family School at Larkhall was a small, alternative school, based in South London, UK, founded by Polly Griffiths in 2007/8 to offer a Democratic education model to primary age children.

Polly Griffiths and Dil Green, the founders of the school, worked to develop their ideas over two years with two other families and with Colin Hill, a teacher who had worked at Community and Voluntary Education in South London.

For the first two years of its operation, families were officially home educators, as the school was not registered with Ofsted.

The school was in premises in Brixton, but the Trustees have acquired a site in West Norwood which will provide its long-term home.

[needs update] The school had no set curriculum, and offered few formal lessons.