While most children were cooped up in their classrooms a group of youngsters enjoyed a picnic in the fresh air in glorious sun without being accused of truanting.
The children and their parents are members of the Epsom and Sutton Home Education Group and were having a picnic in the grounds of Bourne Hall, Ewell, to celebrate the start of term.
While pupils start the new school year in the autumn, the home educated children learn at their own pace and follow a curriculum of their parents’ designing.
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