The Curiosity Club: Creative exploration for curious minds
The Curiosity Club is a weekly two-hour drop-off session for home-educated and unschooled young people aged 11–15. A space for gently-held learning, it’s part social get-together, part opportunity for creative exploration: somewhere to bring your interests, share what you know, discover something new and get stuck into the questions that fascinate you.
Sessions will be led by Rebecca Baker, a home-educating mum and teacher with more than 15 years’ experience working with young people in secondary and further education.
Each term will have an umbrella theme, topic, question or idea and let’s see where it takes us. Through conversation, creative play, storytelling, making, research and whatever else the subject invites, we’ll explore together, with all interesting rabbit holes open to investigation!
It’s a space for curious, quirky and questioning young people to meet one another, follow their interests and create together.
Suitable for: Home-educated and unschooled young people aged 11–15
When: Tuesday afternoons, 2–4pm
Dates: 3 November–15 December
Cost: £18 per session (£30 per session for siblings) + booking fee
Location: Alibi Studio, EX4 1EJ (please note, the Studio is accessed via a flight of 16 stairs)
This is a drop-off session. Parents, carers and younger siblings are very welcome to spend the time at St Thomas Library downstairs.
Who is The Curiosity Club for?
You might be a maker, a debater or a history lover. You might love to tell stories or collect cool facts, or be fascinated by something we haven’t even heard of yet. This is a group for young people who might not want to sit at a desk learning about something they’re not interested in, but will enjoy spending a few hours deep diving into something that sparks their imagination.
You don’t need to be loud or confident or have a special subject ready to share, just come along and be curious with us!
About Rebecca Baker
I’m Rebecca — a home-educating mum, teacher, theatre-maker, lecturer and facilitator, with more than 15 years’ experience working with young people in secondary and further education.
I was also a curious kid who didn’t always find it easy to learn in straight lines. Theatre became the place where I discovered that history, literature, psychology, storytelling, imagination and all the enormous weirdness of being human could be explored together.
I’ve always been fascinated by how young people think and learn, and my teaching has centred around creating inclusive, respectful spaces where their own ideas, interests and questions are front and centre.
The Curiosity Club is the kind of learning space I would have loved to find when I was young.
