Consultation Questions My responses (others do it far better!) 1. Do you agree that these proposals strike the right balance between the rights of parents to home educate and the rights of children to receive a suitable education? Disagree: These proposals recommend uninvited entry into the homes of innocent people on the presumption that they […]
Archives for 2009
Blogging the Good Bits.
I love Kirsty for that phrase 😆 Let’s see. I’m not going to remember it all but it hasn’t been a mostly earth shattering fortnight so it won’t matter. We had a bimbly weekend followed by a Monday with Zoe and her girls where we made a celtic game from Fimo (learning a caning technique […]
Again with the numeracy lessons for people who should know better.
Honestly, you’d think i have nothing better to do. Like educate my children, for example. Fortunately for Badman, Balls and Brown, my maths is now much better than when i left school so i can help them regain a little bit of perspective. It is even less nice when newspapers who should know better, get […]
Dear Ed Balls & the DCSF – no thank you.
Inspired by Helen and Jax. You have conspired to question whether my children are safe in their own home, with their own parents, without any evidence of justification for doing so. My children are my children, conceived and grown by me, fed and clothed by me, nurtured and loved by me, taught to walk and […]
Stuff Fran would like to do most weeks.
Maths (3) Latin (1) Science (2) German (1) French (1) Geography (1) Reading (3) Music Practice (4) Music Theory (1) English (1) History (2) Cooking (1) Project Work (1) Religions (1) Fran wants to be a bit more organised about her work now, which i think is probably a good idea. A couple of her […]
My Parenting
Today i got accused of expecting my children to “win my approval” and having much about my parenting that this person did not agree with and that my ideas of “good behaviour” should be rejected. The inference was that my parenting is manipulative and coercive and not approved of. Which is, i guess, that person’s […]
Lessons in the Burghley Garden of Surprises.
These gardens are lovely and next year i really must buy a summer pass so we can go more often – assuming we get a summer of course. It is attached to the Sculpture Gardens which used to be free and it makes me very cross that it no longer is and so i’ve tended […]
Alice is marrying one of the Guards.
Yesterday the girls and i took another trip to the Royal Institute to watch a science lecture; this time it was about magnets and electricity and was excellent. While i liked last weeks, it didn’t have enough explanation in it but this one was both interesting, fun and informative. The lecturer was good and had […]
The taste of the cake doesn't equal the ingredients.
This is Maddy’s Rubber Band-jo (her name for it). She made it today, when a couple of pieces of stuff that came to hand tweaked her interest and inclined her to try something out. First she put bands on a the box and came to show me that some of them made an approximation of […]
Where have all the Guidelines gone?
In a curious twist of fate and in a moment of data loss that will no doubt be of extreme concern to Mr Ed Balls MP and the DCSF themselves, these Guidelines For Local Authorities on Elective Home Education, have gone missing from the DCSF website. This is a strange thing; these guidelines were thrashed […]
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