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Our Official Blog

Multi-lingual Happy Birthday
About us

The original and still the best? Looking back on an amazing twenty years

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…

By Steve Richards, 4 years22nd August 2019 ago
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Curriculum

Why we sometimes use old books!

We were recently asked why we sometimes use old out of print textbooks for some of our courses. It was a simple question, genuinely asked and it prompted me to mull things over and make some notes to explain out Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years14th June 2019 ago
Alt Education

A few thoughts about autism

It took me a while to acknowledge the truth that Zac is autistic. I knew he was since he was 6 months old but I sort of tried to ignore it. Everything inside of me hoped it wasn’t a real Read more…

By Lyn Richards, 4 years1st May 2019 ago
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Exam Centre

A Difficult Decision

UPDATE – With regret we have to announce that the NSWLearning exam centre will close after the May-June 2020 exam session. We worked hard to find another individual or organisation able to take on the exam centre, but without success. Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years1st April 2019 ago
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Home education

A bit of a moan!

I am sort of going to have a moan here but hopefully people will bear with me and understand where I am coming from. In recent months at the NSW exam exam centre we have spoken with a number of Read more…

By Steve Richards, 4 years4th February 2019 ago
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About us

Five reasons to choose NSWLearning

Let’s be honest, nobody likes the big head at the party, blowing his own trumpet, continually turning every conversation round so that it is an opportunity to talk about what he has done. However, there are times, like job interviews Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years28th August 2018 ago
Student upset
Curriculum

Success and failure – its all a matter of worldview

A few years back, I had a conversation with a mum whilst her son was sitting an exam here at the NSWLearning exam centre. We got into discussion about success and failure, in particular what we as parents measure as Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years23rd August 2018 ago
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Curriculum

Six ways to avoid stress preparing for IGCSEs

Home education is an incredible adventure! It provides us, as parents, with a remarkable opportunity to enjoy our children’s company and grow wise as we all learn together. Like all genuine adventures, however, there are times when pressure builds and Read more…

By Lyn Richards, 5 years19th April 2018 ago
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Curriculum

IGCSEs in a year … or is that nine months!

In a recent blog, we explored the incredible flexibility that home education allows families. In the context of IGCSEs, this flexibility allows us as parents to spread exams out so that our children can sit a range of subjects in Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years18th April 2018 ago
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Home education

Flexibility and using it to your advantage

One of the great advantages of homeschooling is the flexibility that it provides us with as parents to shape and schedule learning to fit in with the needs of our individual children. With the best will in the world, schools Read more…

By Steve Richards, 5 years17th April 2018 ago

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