 Windass asked Kitto to become the warden at Lower Shaw Farm after the Northcliffe School project ended.Kitto was familiar with ideas about unschooled education through reading John Holt and Joy Baker's "Children in Chancery" along with his experiences at the Northcliffe School project.He and Windass were able to contact several families who were educating otherwise and arranged an informal network, and occasional meetings, between them throughout 1975 and 1976.