From November it seems like months ago that it was blasting hot. Still, we’re here working on Strew whatever the weather! Here’s what’s changed in Strew in October.
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🤫 Silence is Golden
This month there’s not loads to report. We’ve fixed a few bits and improved a few areas, but the real work has been on our totally new learning system.
Study Points
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Learning Maps
It’s basically finished at this point, we’re just working our way through lots of testing to make sure when you get it, it ‘just works’. You should see a whole new Strew approach to tracking progress in November… getting really exciting now.
🐛 4 Bugs Fixed + 2 Small Improvements
There are always bugs. We’ve definitely got through a big pile of these and fewer and fewer are showing up,
Here’s what we’ve fixed & improved this month:
- Bug in printing/generating home ed reports on iPad & in adding activities
- Improved subscription management & activity-book links
✍ What is Coming Next?
In November we will release our new evidence-focused learning progress engine. This will replace Study Points with a much more thorough system for tracking learning progress.
For those of you in the UK, this will massively help legitimise your activity-based records and help dealing with LA if you ever have to. For those of you outside of the UK, it’s just better, trust us!
Once that’s released we’ll crack on with these:
- Reports 2.0 (far far better reporting!)
- (Optional) Cloud Sync for multi-device
- Learning Suggestions / Reflections on recent focuses
If you’d like to feed back on Strew Home ed, please do contact us – we work on Strew every day and your feedback guides our work.
▶ Also, Strew Videos
For those of you who partake in social media, you may already be following us, (if you’re not, you should).
Whether you do the book or not, you can now watch all of our Strew Home Education Videos on our dedicated page.
We are enjoying making these videos covering all aspects of the home education journey (current focus is on UK, USA+ others coming soon). If you have any ideas for videos, please let us know.
Our favourite this month is this one, where James tackles some recent comments:
As ever, thank you so much for using Strew. You mean the world to us; we’re doing this for you!
Full Home Ed App Log (October 2026):
v1.0.37 - 02/11/26
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- Improved: Better subscription management
- Added: If you cancel, we ask why?
- Fixed: Removed Halloween Icons
v1.0.36 - 08/10/26
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- Fixed: Bug where priting or generating home ed reports on iPad wasn't working for some users
- Fixed: Bug where add activity was not working for some free users
v1.0.35 - 05/10/26
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- Added: Halloween themed icon
v1.0.34 - 01/10/26
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- Added: Bookshelves feature! You can now create 'to read' lists for each child and log what's being read
- Improved: Adding an activity now lets you save books against it
- Fixed: Few general bugs in UI
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