Category: Home Education
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The Playful Path to Development: Encouraging Growth through Outdoor Toys in Learning
Introduction: The Unending Joy of Play Children’s play is a universe of exploration, discovery, and learning. It’s a joyous journey that contributes significantly to their cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth. The potential of outdoor play is vast and can be maximised with playful aids like a trampoline or a mud kitchen, transforming our gardens…
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Day two of learning to code with Scratch and Tigerboy.
Yesterday we got started on working our way through a Scratch tutorial book I picked up from the local library for sale shelf, How to code in 10 easy lessons. Today we’ve written a buzzer game. You use the arrow keys to turn your arrow around, and the space key to move. In mine anyway:…
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Minecraft for good
Have set up a tiltify so that I can fundraise for Battersea while figuring out minecraft (which I keep typing as micecraft) and streaming. There’s not much there yet, but coming soon… donate to Minecraft for the confused First things first, you have to buy minecraft. Beware, there are multiple versions. I’m reliably told that…
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BBC Woman’s Hour Tuesday 9th March – Electing to home school.
Listen again here on BBC sounds (you need a BBC login) From 33.55 ish. My comments in italics. Presenter Emma Barnett. Be aware that incoherencies and typos will be due to my inability to type as fast as people speak. Emma: Now, children all across the UK are returning to school this week but an…
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Home education in a pandemic – where we’re at.
It’s not the same as home education outside of a pandemic. Which is only to be expected. But things I’ve learnt over the years of home educating 4 children are still coming in handy. Things like if something doesn’t work, change it. So we’re flexing a lot, dropping things that don’t work for us, and…
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Transcript of interview with MP Robert Halfon, chair of education select committee on BBC radio 4 today show 16th November
Today program available for next couple of weeks here First part here Interviewer: All right then, Cllr Watts, thank you. Let’s talk to Robert Halfon MP, chair of the education select committee, morning to you. RH: Good morning, hello there. I: You’ve started an inquiry haven’t you, into home schooling, so I imagine you don’t…
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Transcript of interview with Cllr Richard Watts on BBC Radio 4 Today show, 16th November. Topic – increase in number of home educated children.
I will point out, before we start, that this has been done by me playing and typing, playing and typing etc etc. There may be transcription errors where I’ve misheard something, or mistyped something. You can listen to the show yourself at the moment here, segment starts 2 hr 33 minutes in. I didn’t catch…
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BBC micro:bit from PiHut – a great #HomeEducation resource
Disclosure: The product was provided free for review. It’s all about tech these days, and while knowing how to use it is one thing, knowing how to program it is a whole other aspect. I admit to having a slight head start in this area, as an ex programmer, but the way I learnt to…
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Middlesbrough children encouraged to read with chance to win iPad mini. Confirmed open to home educators.
Children in Middlesbrough are being encouraged to explore the town’s most popular stories with new reading logs and the chance to win an iPad mini. Note, most of what follows is a press release, which is why it doesn’t read like one of my blog posts. However, I’m sharing it because when I followed it…
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The other path.
I didn’t start home educating as an act of rebellion, but it seems increasingly the government views this entirely legal activity that way. Instead, it was to give my children space to be themselves without external judgement /artificial standards /ridiculous amounts of unnecessary testing. I thought we’d probably only home educate through primary years, then…