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Middlesbrough children encouraged to read with chance to win iPad mini. Confirmed open to home educators.

20th March 2019 by Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Poster for Middlesbrough Best Reads campaign

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 … [Read more...] about Middlesbrough children encouraged to read with chance to win iPad mini. Confirmed open to home educators.

Filed Under: Book club, Home Education offers Tagged With: competition, home education, middlesbrough, reading

Home education, how's it looking these days?

14th January 2019 by Jax Blunt 8 Comments

Solar puppy

I still get a fair few contacts via social media about home education, so I thought it was probably time for a bit of an update on where we are, how we're doing and what it looks like these days. Also, I was inspired by Adele over at Beautiful Tribe who wrote a beautiful post about resetting … [Read more...] about Home education, how's it looking these days?

Filed Under: Big, how we do it, It's where it is, rhythm of the day, Small steps, Soa, tigerboy Tagged With: bujo, emma donoghue, home education, homeschooling, library books, noel streatfield, rick riordan, science, spyder, the lotteries more or less, unschooling

The other path.

5th November 2018 by Jax Blunt 4 Comments

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 … [Read more...] about The other path.

Filed Under: how we do it, It's where it is, review Tagged With: #BEDN, BEDN, home education, mix up clay, review

Why we home educate in the holidays

30th July 2018 by Jax Blunt 9 Comments

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 … [Read more...] about Why we home educate in the holidays

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: curriculum, home education, home schooling, learn nothing day, resources, Sandra Dodd, unschooling

Brief reason for home education.

11th July 2018 by Jax Blunt 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 … [Read more...] about Brief reason for home education.

Filed Under: home education review, how we do it, It's where it is Tagged With: autonmous education, home education, home education consultation, home schooling, unschooling

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