Today Amelie, who into all intents and purposes appears to have been at school forever, went on a school trip. Dressed as an evacuee, she walked in crocodile to the steam train station, got the train to Stibbington school (variously used for world war, Victorian, brownie and Eco events!) and spent the day as an […]
The big change. School again.
A while ago, I don’t know where, I think I wrote a little about how much we felt Amelie was outgrowing being home educated. In an ideal world, this would not be so; if she was the eldest, if her brother had not died, if I hadn’t had the business, or Bene, if she had […]
How's you solve a problem like a catch up?
You’d be forgiven for thinking we never do anything. It’s not even remotely true. These days the things I would like to blog far outnumber the number of hours I have for blogging. I wish I could record keep like the old days; I love looking back on those posts. Looking back on the last […]
It just ain't penguin, son.
This is our first ‘proper’ holiday with a child in school, if by holiday you mean ‘getting your child back to actually spend time with rather than sending out all day, chivvying her through homework and evening activities and trying to make sure she washes her shirts’. I’ve loved having her about. In fact, so […]
Thank goodness for structure.
Well, if I’m strictly honest, thank goodness for structure AND Groovy Girls, since the younger two girls are spending a quantity of every day playing with them. Who would have thought that ‘groovy girl gym’ could be such an enduring game???? I’m not complaining though, they are so eager to get back to playing together […]
That Social Whirl Called Daughters
Oh how I could laugh in the face of “how will they ever learn to socialise?” Our feet are not touching the ground for a moment, so busy are we hurtling from one social or sporting occasion to another. Just call us taxi drivers, quite frankly. Amelie had a lovely few days with her friend […]
Various achievements & good things.
Last week Amelie and Fran went off to audition for dancing parts in our city panto, one of those with proper paid cast members (although not dancers!) and a dame and everything. It seemed like it would be a good experience for them to try out an audition, particularly as Fran, buoyed up by how […]
More thoughts on school & home ed.
A while ago I was reading over on Note From Lapland about the Finnish Schooling System. Finland is oft quoted by the home educating community as a paragon of virtue; they start at 6 or 7, learn to read at this age rather than earlier, have a holistic and charming (Chalet School like!) schooling ethos […]
This week we learned….
That Maddy is a stop motion animation genius. There are 700 photos in that clip, all taken on my iPhone with no help (and only a Lego built stand for it) and all the timing comes from her singing the song in her head as she did it. I put it into Windows Movie Maker […]
Thoughts on school.
Fran made it through her first week at school with her soul intact and a smile on her face 🙂 The pace of 3 lessons a day seems to suit her well enough, although in fact she had several free afternoons this week. As we are not yet in a routine and had some commitments, […]
