About the school
A school with
no bell
and no marks.
Homeroom is an evening school for adults in an old bookbinder’s yard in east London. We teach six things, slowly, to small groups.
Why we exist
Most of us stopped
making things
at sixteen.
Somewhere around exam season, art became a subject you were either good at or not. Homeroom is for everyone who was told not.
Our tutors are working potters, printers, writers and developers. They teach one or two evenings a week and spend the rest of it doing the thing itself. Classes are small, the pace is gentle, and there is always tea.
— Odile, head of school
The staff room
Four tutors.
Zero red pens.
Odile Fenn
Ceramics and photography
Potter for twenty years. Has never once thrown a mug she liked first time.
Marek Voss
Letterpress and type
Printer and typesetter. Owns more drawers of metal type than furniture.
Ines Calder
Writing and drawing
Novelist and former art teacher. Marks kindly, in pencil.
Tobias Reed
Code
Web developer since dial-up. Explains things twice without sighing.