Family history (or genealogy) can provide a useful cross curricular focus for home educators. Researching your family history encompasses a wide range of ‘subject’ areas, learning opportunities (or aims) and opportunities to develop a range of skills, within the context that becomes real as it relates to your child’s family. Language skills: comprehension, reading, […]
Home education attracts strong opinions, and to use the Marmite analogy ‘it is either loved or hated’. In the last two decades, there has been a rise in professional, ‘governmental’, and societal concern which displays a lack of understanding and/or supposition about the practice of home education and home educators. Additionally, pronouncements of concern […]
Lockdown is upon us again. Schools are closed to all but keyworkers and the ‘vulnerable’. Ordinarily, home educators don’t limit themselves to thinking ‘education happens in the home’. Lockdown, however, puts all parents in a similar position of having their movement outside the home and their social contacts limited. Add to this a need […]
One of the many characteristics that mark homo sapiens out as different from other animal species is that we think, make, and behave in creative ways. One of those creative memory aids is record keeping. One thing record keeping appears to do is to assist the human memory and to allow the trust necessary […]
Home educating families often ask about ‘case law’, which is correctly referred to as ‘legal precedent’. Legal precedent is a doctrine which comes from the Latin maxim ‘stare decisis et non quieta movere’ which means: ‘stand by what has been decided and do not unsettle the established’ You probably do not […]
Christmas card ideas! Here are a few ideas for you to make christmas cards this year. I have used a fair bit of glitter, I think we need brightening up this year, wouldn’t you agree? So with this is mind, why not make some lovely hand made cards for […]
Why? Our fact sheet gives details of why, and some information about how, to write reports. While there’s no legal obligation, there are pragmatic reasons- your report is your shield from potential prosecution. s437 of the Education Act 1996 is not to be taken lightly. If you are contacted by the local […]
Even if they aren’t the cliché pet every kid is begging for in movies and TV shows, reptiles and amphibians can be both fun and educational pets for children – everything from lizards to frogs to, of course, snakes. Unlike dogs and house cats, snakes still live in the wild, and as such offer an […]
So what about maths and English? Home educating parents often say that there are no set subjects and they are right, but woe betide anyone who takes that literally! This requirement comes from precedent (you might know the term ‘case law’) and the lofty heights of the European Court of Human Rights, but nowhere on […]
Haunted Houses These are some of the lovely work that has been sent in, following the art blog last week. Don’t they look spoooky? Please do continue sending art work in to [email protected] Oscar, 6, Huddersfield India, […]