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, […]
19th February 2021, we have received notification that Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) Exams 2021 (May/June Series) have been cancelled in the UK. CAIE have said: “For schools in the United Kingdom, this means that exams for Cambridge IGCSE, O Level, and International AS & A Level will no longer take place. We will say […]
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 […]
Portsmouth City Council has been sent a letter before action, in accordance with Pre Action Protocol for a judicial review. Portsmouth Home Education Group raised the funds necessary to seek guidance from a well-respected barrister through crowdfunding on chuffed.org in less than 24 hours. The advice given means they are proceeding to the next […]
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 […]
Great news for those wishing to sit IGCSE’s this summer. UPDATE: IGCSEs will go ahead this summer. Pearson provisional timetable here. Cambridge International provisional timetable here. We will continue to seek more options with decision makers. As one of our resource providers reminds us: ‘24 hours is a long time in politics’ and […]
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 […]
Recently, a wave of misinformation has flooded the media, and sadly, the halls of power. The LGA has released a report claiming up to 1.1 million children are ‘not in formal education’, implying that there were 1.1 million home educated children. Further, the Chair of the Commons Select Committee on education, Mr. Robert Halfon, made […]
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 […]
