Hey there, I'm Cass!
Founder of Wonder & Wild
I’m a Mid North Coast of NSW educator, curriculum designer, homeschool mentor, and founder of Wonder & Wild with big dreams.
Very into: apple crumble, good emails, and creating a life you don’t have to pretend to like. Chatterbox since 1990.
I didn’t always have Wonder & Wild - the program, the portal, the families, the vision that finally felt whole.
Over a decade ago, you would have found me teaching at an incredible school in Sydney. I was fully immersed in education, refining curriculum, trialling programs, and working within best-practice frameworks. From the outside, I was thriving. But quietly, I was also navigating years of infertility - using my work as an anchor through heartbreak I didn’t yet have language for.
Teaching became my refuge. I studied what truly helped children learn. I saw what worked in real classrooms - and what simply looked good on paper.
Then, five years later, my miracle arrived. And everything changed. Motherhood didn’t dilute my love for education. It clarified it. I no longer wanted children to just get through learning. I wanted them to think, question, create, and grow - without burning out, without being boxed in, without losing their wonder.
When I went looking for a homeschool program that was academically strong, play-based, low-screen, flexible, and fully outcomes-compliant in Australia… I couldn’t find it.
So I built it.
Today, Wonder & Wild exists to give families what I couldn’t find back then - an education that is thoughtful, rigorous, joyful, and deeply human.
IN RETROSPECT...
I probably should’ve known the girl who grew up on a boys’ boarding school campus - covered in dirt, jumping bikes at five, playing noughts and crosses on cow pats, breaking bones, and somehow ending up with a new nose before most kids lost their baby teeth - would one day create a program that fiercely protects childhood.
I didn’t grow up sitting still. I grew up curious, independent, and outside.
All I want now is for my own children - and yours - to have the same freedom to be kids, while still building strong, capable minds.
FUN Facts
NUMBER One
I had a nose job at five thanks to a bike accident. Childhood was… spirited.
NUMBER Two
I’m gluten and dairy free (not by choice), but I will absolutely make an exception for a Caramilk ice cream.
NUMBER Three
I can sing and dance - properly - though these days it mostly happens in the kitchen or when no one’s watching.
NUMBER Four
I’m a legit hiker. Not “cute trail with a coffee after” hiking. Think Overland Track in Tasmania kind of hiking.
NUMBER Five
I cannot drive manual. I’ve been taught by my parents and my husband. Multiple times. Still a no.
NUMBER Six
I got my real estate licence straight after school purely because I love property. Floor plans bring me an unreasonable amount of joy.
NUMBER Seven
I’ve also studied interior design, and will happily rearrange a room (or critique a renovation show) without being asked.
NUMBER Eight
I’m deeply loyal, wildly curious, and have never been very good at doing things halfway.
NUMBER Nine
I’m equal parts organised and spontaneous - which somehow works most of the time.
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