I tweeted the other day about how Tigerboy was enjoying a trial on Doodlemaths and someone replied to ask if that meant we didn’t have holidays. And the honest answer is, we don’t, really. Over the years, we’ve drifted from a more structured home education approach with some very obvious curriculum related box ticking, to […]
Brief reason for home education.
July 11, 2018 By 2 Comments
Today in the post I got a form from college – additional information for home educated students. There was a little box headed up “brief reason for home education”. Brief? You want me to summarise how we came to home education briefly? There were a couple of years of research that spun off reading I […]
Skating, friends and a doodlesome evening
October 3, 2017 By 1 Comment
Deschooling – a continual process
September 11, 2017 By 4 Comments
Art inspiration at The Works
September 7, 2017 By 3 Comments
Home education in the headlines, and on the radio
September 5, 2017 By 16 Comments
There were a number of negative headlines around home education (or homeschooling as some parts of the media will insist on calling it) following a counter terrorism speech by a senior police officer in which he mentioned the possibility of homeschooling (yes, I know) being a possible contributory factor in the rise of extremism/ home […]
Tell it to the Moon – guest post on home schooling by author Siobhan Curham
August 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
As regular readers will know, most of my children are home educated, and despite growing numbers of children educated outside school, it’s a topic rarely touched upon in fiction. So when I was offered Tell it to the Moon to read and review, and I realised it included a home schooled teenager, I jumped at […]
100 ways to home educate – guest post Tammie Griffiths from Aspire Chaos to Calm
February 16, 2017 By Leave a Comment
As yesterday’s blog on different ways to home educate was on fb, I’m reposting it here (with explicit permission!) so that it can be easily found as part of the blog hop 🙂 You can find Tammie on facebook or twitter My article is in the comments ?via Ripl.com Posted by Aspire-Chaos to Calm-Connecting & […]
100 ways to home educate – launching a blog hop.
February 6, 2017 By 5 Comments
It’s Monday morning, and all over the country children aged from 3 or 4 upwards are heading to nursery, school, college, what have you. Education, after all, is compulsory. There are lots of different schools out there. Mainstream, special, private, academies, and lots of different ways of educating within them. There’s also home education. A […]
