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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Mummy, where’s my trident?
“It’s in the kitchen dear.” And the little red devil shot off to the kitchen, reappearing smiling a moment later complete with trident. It was a Halloween party, in case you hadn’t guessed. But that was at the end of … Continue reading
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Still trying hard.
Didn’t get through our routine bits yesterday due to an early morning appt for Tim and myself, but did on Mon and today. Regular maths is giving Big confidence to attempt sums while out and about – she worked out … Continue reading
What’s in a word?
School v education. Homeschool v home education. Different images aren’t they? To me anyway, although mainstream media and politicians in this country for some reason do not seem to see this. Setting aside the implied discourtesy in using a term … Continue reading
Never off duty
for reasons that we won’t go into in detail here, Big was banned from gameboy, tv and computer today in a triple whammy never seen before. And as we don’t do sit down work on a Sunday, this meant I … Continue reading
Wanted – journalists who will actually investigate and report news.
The answer to Q36 Maggie Atkinson: I will take you back, if I may, to when I was an adviser in Birmingham city council, where there were quite large numbers of home-educated children—it is getting on for 20 years now … Continue reading
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People like us.
A very short while ago I rejoined an email group that I was last a member of over 10 years ago. It’s the list that I met Tim on (awww…) and hence Big is known to them as listbabe After … Continue reading
It’s been a busy week.
I apologise for the lack of blogging. There are three main reasons for this. The first was the consultation, which closed on Monday night. I couldn’t focus on much else other than watching the numbers rise steadily, and wonderfully, until … Continue reading
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Resources on offer.
Fun with Maths 6-7 (Gold Stars Fun Learning Workbooks) (2 copies). Dividing (Sticker Sums) (says on back suitable for ages 4-7). Multiplying (Sticker Sums) (says on back suitable for ages 4-7). English 4-5 (Gold Stars Workbooks) English 5-6 (Gold Stars … Continue reading
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A plea to the public
You’re running out of time to respond to the consultation. That’s the consultation on new registration and monitoring requirements for Elective Home Education. The consultation is seeking “the views of home educating families, groups representing home educating families, local authorities, … Continue reading
A vociferous minority.
From the transcript of Monday 12th session in front of the Select Committee please note that this is currently the uncorrected version of the transcript. If/ when the corrected version is available, I’ll change my link and quote if necessary. … Continue reading
Consultation response.
The consultation is available for responses online. My response follows. I was submission 2042, my understanding is that the usual type of number responding to these things is around 300. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get ten times … Continue reading
In and amongst the politics
still some education going on. As well as Beavers, Brownies, swimming, shopping, cooking and living. It’s busy here Yesterday’s educational outing was in the form of a trip to the hospital for a presentation scan. The very nice sonographer lady … Continue reading
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Round up of letters to Mr Balls.
Starting with the first inspiration from Helen – I will not give up. My own, found below – These are my children, not yours. Merry, eloquent as ever – my children do not need you. From C at Making Memories … Continue reading
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Dear Mr Ed Balls and the DCSF- No thank you
Inspired by Helen’s letter to Ed Balls from her blog. Dear Mr Balls I will not give up this fight. These are my children, not yours, not the state’s. I will choose with them what they learn, and we will … Continue reading
Long day and late night.
Not quite sure how the children entertained themselves for most of yesterday, as Tim and I were busy sorting and reorganising to move ourselves down from the loft bedroom. It was beginning to get a bit silly me climbing the … Continue reading
Another week sails by.
Wednesday was Maths, English and comparative religion. Well, comparative in that we compared it to the theory of evolution we’d looked at over the previous couple of days Small didn’t think much of it, he likes evolution, and keeps drawing … Continue reading
It’s hard to know where to start
with the flood of press releases today. We’ve had the government’s full response to the Graham Badman review. We’ve had the announcement of a forthcoming review into the definition of suitable education for home educated children. We’ve seen Graham Badman’s … Continue reading
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Select Committee witnesses
If you haven’t seen the list of witnesses for the select committee the phrase read it and weep comes to mind. From Home Education Forums The Children, Schools and Families Committee will be taking formal oral evidence as follows: Monday … Continue reading
More idioms, new shoes and rhyming slang at the dinner table.
Children did maths and English first off – more work on idioms for Big, trying to draw humorous pictures to illustrate various idioms. Not sure about the humour value of the pictures, but it did get her thinking about the … Continue reading
Not everything has a why…
declared Small this evening. He’d been asking for Brown Beaver’s phone number, and I wanted to know why he wanted it. He said that not everything had a why, and I said I thought it did. His response was that … Continue reading
