For local authorities
Council liaison
Growing Roots Academy is an independent online school based in East London, teaching home-educated children from Year 1 to Year 11. This page is for council officers who support elective home education: our contact details, our introduction letter, and a way to ask for a meeting. Parents looking for their own council can use our council directory.
Contact the school
School office address
Growing Roots ltd
161 Plashet Road
London E13 0QZ
Principal and safeguarding lead
Prof. Rushna Sulyman, Principal and Designated Safeguarding Lead
The office is open during term time, Monday to Friday. Letters posted to the address above reach the same team as email.
Download our introduction letter
Ready to send, on school letterhead. Each one introduces the academy, sets out what we offer home-educated children, and explains our safeguarding arrangements.
How we can work with a council
Meet your team
We will come to you, or join a call, to walk through our curriculum, teaching, safeguarding arrangements and fees in detail.
Be listed as a resource
If your team signposts families to local support, we would be glad to be included in the information you share with home-educating parents.
Support private candidates
We advise home-educated families on GCSE subject choices, specifications and exam preparation, and we work with local exam centres.
Share information with families
We can provide literature, attend home education community events, or run an online information session for parents in your area.
The academy at a glance
- Pupils
- Home-educated children in Years 1 to 11 (Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 through to GCSE)
- Subjects
- English, Maths, Science and Humanities, following the British national curriculum
- Teaching
- Live, small-group online lessons with a named tutor
- Planning
- A personalised weekly learning plan for every child, with tutor feedback
- Fees
- Published on our fees page, with instalments and a sibling discount
- Safeguarding
- Full policy set with a named Designated Safeguarding Lead
Our full safeguarding policy set — child protection, online safety, safer recruitment, allegations against staff, whistleblowing and records management — is published on our policies page, and we will send copies to a council on request.
Our address is 161 Plashet Road, London E13 0QZ. We are an online school: lessons are delivered live over the internet, so families anywhere in the UK can join.