This September will be the thirty-fifth anniversary of when we began our home education adventure. By this I mean, it was when we started home educating our ‘school-aged’, eldest daughter. Home education has changed a lot since then – when Read more…
7. Factor in the 2020 scenario 2020 has been a nightmare year for home educating families whose children were due to sit exams. The reality was that for large numbers of students who were studying independently (i.e. not with a Read more…
4. Don’t do too many subjects You may be tempted to mimic the approach of most schools when it comes to GCSEs and do as many as you possibly can. Can I discourage you from heading down that road – Read more…
1. Make the big decisions first Don’t get caught up in discussions about subjects and exam boards before you consider as a family what you want to do about exams. You don’t have to do IGCSEs at all. Some families Read more…
It’s summer, which for many home educators means just one thing – what are we going to do education-wise in September? And specifically for families with children approaching the exam years, what are we going to do about GCSE/IGCSEs. If Read more…
I was homeschooled for eight years, from age 11 through to college, before it was a novel way for tiger parents to show off their dynamic commitment to their children’s education. Now, if millions of parents and families are suddenly Read more…
This is the first full week of exams at our NSWLearning exam centre and it started me thinking about our relationship with exams as home educators. As somebody who did his teacher training in the 1970s, I am old enough Read more…
If you have come to read this blog post as a result of the headline then you probably fall into one of two groups of people – the first ‘group’ is pretty much pro-home education – you may actually be Read more…
Like much of the country, I have been following events in Westminster over the last few weeks with increasing disquiet. I am not going to comment, here on Brexit, but on the language used by politicians. I was brought up Read more…
Monday 6th September 1999 was what they call a quiet news day – no single event dominated the day’s newspapers in the UK. Tony Blair had been Prime Minister for two years and Mambo No 5 was top of the Read more…