Using the app.

A step-by-step guide to turning on two-factor authentication, saving your recovery codes, and connecting Google as a second way to sign in to Willowfolio.

The app drafts a narrative from your activity logs and Montessori observations, maps them to National Curriculum subjects via the crosswalk, and hands you an editable draft. You review, rewrite, and finalise before anything leaves your hands.

The schedule in Willowfolio is a soft frame for your week, not a school timetable. Here is how to set up classes, trips, home sessions, recurring events and your family's own term dates.

Two ways a family can be removed, what each one does, and how to get records back. Calm, honest, no small print.

A plain guide to what most home-educating families actually track, why HMRC will not give you a tax break, and how to log spending in Willowfolio.

How the Suggestions tab works, how ideas are chosen for your family, and why closing the tab is a perfectly valid response.

The developmental plane field is a Montessori age-band. Plane 1 is 0 to 6, Plane 2 is 6 to 12, Plane 3 is 12 to 18, Plane 4 is 18 to 24. If you are unsure, leave it blank and add it later.

The heatmap shows where your logged activities map onto the UK National Curriculum, for your own reference and for LA correspondence. It is not a grading tool; empty squares are invitations, not verdicts.

The colours on your home page are prompts, not verdicts. Here is what each one means and why none of them say you are failing.

How to download, export and delete your data in Willowfolio, plus your GDPR rights in plain English.

Your feedback is shared on a public board by default so other families can upvote it. You can keep any piece private with one tick.

A professional orientation for LA officers who have received a home-education report from a family using the Montessori method. What the method is, how the report maps to the National Curriculum, what the evidence base looks like, and what the suitable-education test requires.

A gentle week-shape for your first seven days of home education with Willowfolio. Not a daily checklist, just a soft rhythm you can follow or ignore.

The books worth reading, in the right order, with honest notes on what to skip.

Most of Willowfolio works on a phone. Quick Observe, log activity, add a book and browse Suggestions are all designed for one-handed use.

Free downloadable templates for UK home-educating families, from deregistration letters to observation sheets, sample sequences and sensitive-periods charts.

What to do if you accidentally deleted an activity, a child or something else in Willowfolio. Most things can be restored from backup.

A walk through the log-activity form. What each field is for, which ones you can skip and when to log (retrospectively is fine).

How to manage your Montessori materials in Willowfolio, rotate your shelf over time, link materials to activity logs and track the Five Great Lessons.

Three real UK families, three different shapes of day: a single mum with a pre-schooler, a two-job household with a 5- and 8-year-old, and a mum of three including a baby. Hour by hour, interruptions included.

Started the getting-started checklist but got interrupted? Nothing is lost. Here is how to carry on.

You do not legally need a portfolio for UK home education. If you choose to keep one, here is what actually goes in it and how to build it without extra work.

Everything counts. Read-alouds, audio books, comics, half-finished books and picture books all belong in your reading log.

How to change your theme, dark mode, email preferences and activity logging mode in Willowfolio.

A calm step-by-step for your first session. Sign up, add a child, log a first activity, then close the app for the rest of the day.

How the curated Montessori material library works, what each card tells you, and why adding something to 'stored' is a perfectly good outcome.

Willowfolio does not mind which method you use. Your records stay intact when you change direction.

A quick triage: email Willowfolio for app and general questions, contact Education Otherwise for legal advice, and use dedicated crisis lines for safeguarding or mental health.

Willowfolio generates a draft report from your logged activities. You review and edit it. You finalise and export a PDF. Thirty minutes if the journal is kept, a bit longer if not.

A plain answer to who can and cannot see your family's records in Willowfolio, and how tenant isolation keeps your data private.