Home Schooling

[MrsSnape]

I have posted this on Home Ed too.

My mum has decided that home schooling is the best option for my 14 year old sister. She is obese, border line autistic, zero confidence and has been a target for bullying for the past 10 years. The schools are not interested, she is failing academically and she spends all her time crying. She has NO friends.

So basically we're wondering how to go about it. I assume the first step is to tell the school she will be leaving? Then what?

Does my mum need to contact the education authority and tell them of the home ed? What help (if any) will she receieve? Will she receieve guidance on what my sister needs to be learning?

What about exams? my sister wants to go to animal college when she is 16 but this requires 4 gsce's grade D or above....how do you go about the GSCE exams?

What about her y9 SATS that she is due to take in May? Does she need to do them?

How do you manage to socialise them? she has no friends currently so any social activity will be up on what she has at the moment...

I know its alot of questions but its all new to us.

Thanks