Travelling families keep a British education with King’s InterHigh online school

Families on the move are using online schooling to maintain a consistent education while travelling. Chris and Jules Scholey Smith gave up corporate jobs, rented out their house and have spent six years visiting more than 40 countries with their children; they are currently based in India and discovered King’s InterHigh while in the Himalayas.

“It’s been a gamechanger for us,” Chris says. King’s InterHigh is described as a leading global online school for children aged seven to 19, offering a flexible British education to thousands of students from some 120 countries. Timetables are set across three time zones — the UK, Middle East and south-east Asia — and classes are shorter with frequent breaks to encourage students to step away from screens.

The school also runs hundreds of clubs and societies, from fantasy football and chess to gardening and yoga, leaving time for visits to museums, beaches and other extracurricular activities. Other travelling families report similar benefits. Tamira and Chris Hutchinson left the UK in 2023 to travel with their three daughters — Olivia (11), Scarlett (nine) and Bella (five) — through Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Qatar; one year became two.

Tamira said she initially planned to home school but found King’s InterHigh fitted their lifestyle and helped the girls develop a broader, more global perspective.

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