Books: School is not compulsory
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Title: School is not compulsory (The essential introduction to home-based education)
Editor: Education Otherwise
Publisher: Education Otherwise
ISBN: 0952170337
A useful guide from the UK's primary home education organisation, lots of useful tips about the law etc rather than suggestions for actually doing it (though some of those too). Definitely useful to get again when Linnea is "school age" - ie the first school start date after her fifth birthday, which I think is 01 September 2009. She'll be 5 years and 4 months then, so they'll start teaching her to count to ten and learn her ABCs. I can't see that, somehow. It seems very unlikely.
New word: Pwing (swing) and now she pronounces horse correctly, H and all (English R, but never mind). She's working on teeth, mouth, and flower, too, but not there yet. And she has a word for breastmilk - Thass. I have no idea where it came from - perhaps "Oh, that's what you want, is it?!"
(Home education: get up, tidy house, wash dishes, cook dinner - you've done "domestic science" and probably maths. Go shopping - maths and reading comprehension and all sorts. These books are really changing the way I look at my day. It's very funny to suddenly think "... and that's geography!" when I've looked up a train timetable or something.)
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Date: 2005-10-15 02:38 pm (UTC)Freya and I just baked a cake together. That's Maths, Science, Hygiene (wash your hands first!) Communication Skills, and General Life Skills too - I let her break the eggs herself today for the first time ever; she's a natural! It would have been Literacy too if we had in fact used a recipe, but as it was a sponge cake and the recipe is in my head, I didn't think of it in time!
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Date: 2005-10-15 03:43 pm (UTC)Jack's word for breastmilk is "fmor" - probably because I used to say "do you want some more?" while his word for milk is "mok".
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Date: 2005-10-15 08:30 pm (UTC)I realise practices may be different there than here (NZ), but here the child's literacy and numeracy is assessed when they start and at 6 month intervals, so can tell what the child already knows. Our school has adjusted things to suit our daughter, though it has meant that, at 7 now, she is the youngest in here class by some margin. Mind you our school is in a university catchment area and has a reputation for providing well for bright kids.
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Date: 2005-10-15 10:43 pm (UTC)We have a reasonable set of guidelines here (http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/notes_for_guidance.pdf) - there are a lot of home schooled children in this county for one reason or another, and I've worked with the HEd liaison team at the council in the past so look forward to dealing with them from a parent's POV...
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Date: 2005-10-15 11:11 pm (UTC)That LEA thing is... trying hard to be almost neutral. It really is.
Until then, I won't bother home educating her... I'll just raise her. Or survive raising her. Possibly.
rising fives
Date: 2005-10-17 08:41 pm (UTC)The first line you quote says "do not legally have to start school until the term after" which leads me to suspect that the cannot defer thing is a BC addition and largely about getting a place in the school - ie if you don't go into reception there won't be room for you in year 1.
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Julie paradox
Re: rising fives
Date: 2005-10-17 08:47 pm (UTC)