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(Not) back to school – home education planning with The Range.

August 19, 2016 By Jax Blunt 9 Comments

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias August. Hot days, but cool evenings, time for another camping holiday, and suddenly, all the shops including the Range are full of back to school displays, and parents are wondering where the summer went and how long […]

Filed Under: It's where it is, Reenactment Tagged With: body project, collective bias, Early years, home education, homeschool, stationery, The Range

Home education – news round up for January.

February 3, 2016 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

There’s been a lot of mentions of home education (or homeschooling) in a variety of media outlets over the last 6 weeks or so, I thought it might be useful to do a round up with some commentary. The mentions started back in December, with a couple of articles based around the same statement on […]

Filed Under: It's where it is Tagged With: charlotte church, emma thompson, home education, home schooling, homeschool, nadia sawalha, worldschooling

Animal adaptations – home education at Colchester Zoo

January 21, 2016 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Colchester Zoo is our local zoo, if you can refer to something 40 minutes drive away as local. We’ve only been once before, as guests of First News when we had a fabulous amphibians experience. Then just last week I learnt via facebook that they were offering (free) home education sessions, targeted to age group, […]

Filed Under: It's where it is, places we like Tagged With: animal adaptations, colchester zoo, home education, homeschool, workshop

What’s in a word?

October 28, 2009 By Jax Blunt 6 Comments

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 not in use by the ppl concerned, is this because they don’t want to accept […]