We flowed from the high of GCSE results day to the final decision on what Sixth Form Fran would attend, to last minute tweaks and changes to A Level choices and the scheduling in of enrichment activities around personal commitments. And all of it, for the first time, was judged up against the future. Lists […]
And now she is 10.
My youngest little girl is ten. One of my friends said something yesterday that I’ve been thinking all week. When my big girls were ten, they were practically grown up. Josie is still just a baby. Surely, she is still just a baby? But she isn’t. She is, as all ten years old girls are, […]
The end of (this year's school) days.
We made it. Only just and not without some pain, but we made it. It’s the end of our first full year of schooling all of them. I’m pretty disgruntled about it, as I said before, but there are positives too. None of them want to leave so I suppose that is a positive. They […]
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 […]
But WHY Home Educate?
There are an awful lot of reasons for this, across the HE Community and in our family. The reason we home educate now is not the reason we started to do so. Perhaps one of the most pertinent to the moment ones is this:- It is my duty in law to ensure my children are […]
How to Home Educate.
There, that caught your attention, didn’t it? If only there was a nice, one size fits all, instruction manual for home educating. Of course, there are plenty of people happy to sell you books, boxes and curricula that profess to be the ultimate success, but if i’ve learned anything in 9 years of home educating, […]
Ask me why I home educate?
my photoshop skills are really not too good. If anyone wants to take the idea and make it look better, format it better, change the photos to their own etc etc or if anyone wants my photos to just do a better job, please feel free. I like the idea, but my execution isn’t very […]
