Tag: home education
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How home education looks for us in 2025
I have been home educating, on and off for over 20 years now. That feels like a bit of a milestone that swung by without me even noticing. We’ve made changes over the years, obviously, and home education in 2025 is pretty different to when we got started way back in 2003. Back then, if…
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Hobbies that are Great for your Child’s Development
Disclosure: collaborative post If you have kids and want them to thrive then getting them to try a few hobbies is always a great thing to do. By getting them into a hobby now, you can help to build their confidence and you can also set them up for success later in life. If you…
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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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Home education, how's it looking these days?
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…
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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…