Tag: Home-ed

  • Always look out for local free activities!

    Roman Festival Today was one of our two home education “Plan” days for this week. Our plan today was to attend a free local Roman festival in Dorchester. We are incredibly lucky in where we live, as there is a wealth of historical architecture around us. Maiden Castle– one of the largest and most complex… Read more

  • Easter holiday time

    Easter Activities This morning I have spent yet MORE time fighting with passwords to get all of the settings on Twinkl to work, having finally figured out the other day that although I had set up both learner accounts, (you need to go in and individually allow permissions for each section, which explains why they… Read more

  • Our day off educating. Birthday time and maths with meatballs!

    Home Educating on a birthday day – unintentional learning, and a lesson in flexibility. Maths with meatballs! Read more

  • Dance breaks and the importance of ice-cream

    Dance breaks and the importance of ice-cream

    What have I learned from the first day of our Home Education Experiment? Well, aside from the fact that picking the day before Small’s birthday to begin this Home Education escapade was probably a terrible idea…… today was AMAZING. Which is not to say, of course, that it was all easy, or completely without incident.… Read more

  • One giant leap….

    Welcome to what is hopefully the very beginning of our UK Home Education adventure! We are a Dorset family of 6 on the verge of the biggest change in lifestyle dynamic that we have faced – after untold evenings spent calming down high-achieving but incredibly anxious young girls currently in years 2 and 4 at… Read more