I know absolutely nothing about home Ed.

[Shoshe]

But desperately want to learn.

What would it involve at secondary level, how do they do exams?

How many hours a week do you put in, what sort of things do you cover?

Oh God there is so much I want to ask, but really dont know where to start.

There are reasons I need to Home Ed, that I dont want to go into on a open forum, but general answers may help.

Thank You anyone that can.

The short answer is "it depends" - some HE children at secondary age would study the same kinds of subjects as they would be doing in school, and would use textbooks and library books, and work towards doing exams as an external candidate. There's ways of doing that where you don't have to have coursework marked and it all goes on a final exam, which can be easier. Others wait and don't do exams until they can do A levels in a college, or OU qualifications, or just don't do exams at all.

And some don't look at things as separate subjects, but just study a range of things which they find interesting, and where they pick up skills like finding information for themselves, writing up reports etc

If the child is fairly self-motivated then you don't need to be very involved in the day-to-day detail, so it won't take you lots of hours.

I know you don't want to go into detail, but what suits a child does often depend a bit on the reasons why they are HE at all - so a child who is finding school very unpleasant and is suffering from bullying for example is likely to do better with HE thats as unlike school as possible, to help them get over the emotional struggles. Same if they just find the way things are taught in school doesn't "work" for them.

OTOH if its just a practical reason (like no school place available) then they might be happy with something quite "school-like" and you might only be thining about it for the short term.

HTH

Thank you MIS an I PM you and ask some more questions?

Yes if you like, but there's lots of people much more expert than me!

I home educated all three of my my children with SEN, right through their teenage years.

One is starting Uni on Monday, reading Psychology at Leicester, the other two are at FE college.

If it would help to chat in real life, you can contact me through [email protected] and I'll give you a number to call me on.

Julie is it possible to email you, I am a CM and cant really use the phone for long during the day.

Or PM?

Hi there, I am home edding my two girls aged 11 and 14, so both secondary age. My eldest did 3 GCSEs last year and we're working towards a few more this year.

It's been much, much easier than you would imagine and we still have lots of time for fun stuff (skating and shopping today!).

We are structured-ish, maybe more so than some other home educators. We started that way because DD2 is very keen on having set structures in her life - she found school too haphazard for her liking! DD1 tends to be pretty much self motivated - I don't have to do much for her GCSEs at all.

You are welcome to email me on musicposy at yahoo dot com and fire as many questions as you like!

I would say, though, that different things work for different people, so chat to as many people as you can.

My eldest came out of school at 12 - so I was once in a desperate fog about it all too!

Have PMed you, Shoshe.

Hi Shoshe
I'm certain SDeuchars will have answered your questions, but I'm happy for you to email me at the address above and I'll answer from my own email address

Julie, I'm recommending she read your story. I have pointed her here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/home_ed/1025218-alterntive-to-phonics-for-literacy/AllOnOnePage#20965225

Hi, I am really sorry, but due to other factors at the moment we have had to put this on aback burner.

thank You very very much for your help.

don't worry Shoshe, we'll still be here when the time is right.