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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We travelled to Leeds for the youth climate change protest organised by youth4climatechange protest at the end of September 2021, and it was really inspiring! It was our first protest as a family and both Miss Crackles and Mr Pickles were excited. Banner Making Every good protester needs a banner, so we set to making […]
A not back to school picnic for home educated children is exactly what it sounds like! Home educated children meet up with other families, and have a picnic in a park. Traditionally at this time of the year social media is flooded with first day at school, new school and new year photos of kids […]
The village in which we live had a scarecrow hunt over August. The theme for this year was ‘hero scarecrow’ which led to lots of discussions and musings of what our hero scarecrow should look like. Who would be our hero? Finally, after a few days of deliberations we decided on Frodo! A small hero […]
We did a really cool and colourful experiment this week that was very engaging. This cool experiment made some beautiful patterns using just a few things and we learnt about why this happened. What do you need for this experiment? Milk Washing up liquid Food colouring (we had red, blue and yellow) Cotton bud Dish […]
