I am writing this as I am incensed over the the schools bill that is being brought by the government. The Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says “My mission is clear; I want to make sure every single child across our country has access to an excellent education, supporting them to reach the full height of […]
A round up of where we sell our designs and creations. All of our designs are available in different formats, and on platforms. We are excited to add more designs to our ranges and hope to be able to offer more platforms in the near future. Notebooks! We design and create all kinds of notebooks […]
Guest Post: Miss Crackles Yesterday I visited The National Landscape discovery centre, a geology centre near Hexham. First we listened to a 30-minute talk about the local geology by Ian Jackson, a local geologist. I was given a fossil of a coral: and got to keep most of the toilet roll from the demonstration: After […]
All our planners are uniquely designed, and created by us. We only create designs that we would be happy to use, and that we would like to buy ourselves.
We headed into Northumberland to visit a couple of local sites. The big spoon and the lady of the north. Art but different. Eating for England – the big spoon On a wet and windy February day we headed to Cramlington to discover the Eat for England big spoonan art installation of a big spoon […]
New Year, new work topics for us all here at the Home Educating Family. Some of our work is constant but we will be looking at new things too. We don’t follow a curriculum as schools would but do things that are interesting and informative. Obviously maths and science can be more structured but there […]
It is nearly the end of 2021, and yet again it has been a mixed bag of a year for everyone. We are still in the midst of a pandemic, and many people are struggling mentally and financially. If you are feeling that you are snowed under or feel there is no way out please […]
Wow, I can’t believe it is nearly Christmas, and then a new year. 2021 has again been a mixed bag with lots of highs, and some lows – still we have managed laugh and have fun and make some new friends. For the last month we have been playing our annual family games competition – […]
So we have hit November and it is time for our annual games competition to begin. Every year for the past five years we have done this and it has been good fun, and can get competitive! This doesn’t mean that we don’t play games at other times during the year – but this is […]
Football for learning! Mr Pickles is a big fan of football. He loves playing it, watching it, and reading about it. His interest in this is a great way for him to learn about things without any pressures or being forced to do so – he loves to know stuff. During the summer we avidly […]
