Do you request your child's file, books etc from the school when you take them out?

[avenanap]

I am seriously considering not taking my ds back to school after easter and teaching him at home until he moves to a new school in September but I am not sure what I will need to do about his work and file at his current school. He is at a private school at the moment, a new head took over in September and I am becoming increasingly unhappy as to how my ds is being treated by some of the staff. My ds is a very bright child. He's about 2 years ahead and is opinionated and questioning. The head does not like this, my ds is being told off all the time for silly things when other children who do the same are not. I have tried to sort it out but the head won't listen to me. There are other problems at the school and I have been told of several other parents who are moving their children. My ds can't start his new school until September and I am not willing to leave him at the school. Does anyone know what I have to do to teach him at home for the term? I don't want him to go back and be miserable and I really don't want to have to pay for this. The level of pastoral care is virtually none existent. I would like to see his file because I'd like to know what the head has been writing about him before he moves to the new school. Thanyou.

[Julienoshoes]

If you are taking a child out of public school, you should be entitled to his work-you paid for it.
I don't know about the file though-but would have thought you are entitled to see what is in it.
But you won't need it, the next head teacher in September, can take the information from you, yours son's educator, when he starts there in Sept.

As far as "What I have to do to teach him at home for a term?
Ae you talking about the legalities of withdrawing him from that school? If you are there are threads about taking your child out of school, that will cover that. I'll bump them up now.

Or are you talking about the practicalities of what to teach?
If so the answer is-you don't have to "teach" him anything!
Have fun together, the whole summer long and his education will still race ahead!
You don't say what age he is, but the key is to find out what interests him. Follow those interests and you will have a ball!
A child who is fully engaged with things can't help but learn.

Go off into the woods, build dens, talk about tribal people and how they would have lived. Talk about cave people-how did they eat, what did they eat. How did they make fire. ow would they have defended themselves.
We visited some caves that have been known to have been lived in, right up to the 60's-one has been restored. The children were fascinated.

We spent long hours on the beaches in Dorset, (camping nearby) finding fossils and researching them afterwards. This fitted in with our sons interest in dinosaurs.

We've been to London -we use Megabus to keep it very cheap, and visited the Dinosaur exhibition at the natural history Museum. We also go to the hands on exhibition at the Science museum, around the corner. We also explored their Space exhibitions too.

One time we combined it with looking at all of the old buildings and watching rehearsals for "Trooping the Colour" another time we have combined it with going to see Mary Poppins, with some home edders from London.
We have also been to the Egyptian artifacts in the British Museum.

On other beaches, we have had lazy days in rock pools looking at the wildlife there.
talked about maintaining the environment, climate change, conservation.

One of our children was mad about Lego for a long time, she played for hours. There is all sorts of maths in there without realising it. But she also designed and built a village from Lego. We talked about what was necessary for village life to survive, -a post office/shop/ a pub/ a school? Somewhere to play, somewhere to work.
Then she designed a camper van out of Lego, then she began to draw plans for one in real life. So we went to the boat and caravan show and looked in lots of new caravans ad camper vans.
We looked at storage and decided what was essential. She then began to redesign her plans. We looked at drawing to scale-and talked about how she would fit all her requirements into the small space.

She is 15 now and still plans to do a basic mechanics course, so that she can go travelling and be able to deal with basic mechanical problems, for herself along the way.

When we go shopping the children are involves in the business of shopping-we have given them their own shopping list and trolley before now. Comparing brands and prices is very educational.
They love to cook, and we discuss the science behind it all-and of course there is maths again in the measuring out etc. We have cooked dishes from around the world-and thereby have linked into exploring cultures!

We have enjoyed Science Experiments-we got a chemistry set off Freecycle, but also enjoyed free experiments with normal household equipment as they have come free into our inbox each week from Krampf

and I haven't even mentioned local home educators to you yet!
You could find out if there is a group near to you.
Our local group, have meetings activities and workshops organised that anyone can join in with.
This month there are English Heritage Workshops on 'Habitats and Houses' and a 'Roman Experience' and many of them are going to the Cheltenham Science Festival in June, that welcomes home educators.
There is another link here about finding local home educators.

Then there are loads of things to look at on the computer of course, many home educated children play Runscape loads of learning to be done there!

Of course you could spend hours reading your favourite books together.

Yea-have fun together, the whole summer long doing whatever interests him, and his education will race along.