Home ed, South Herts

[Colleger]

I am seriously thinking about Home ed in September for my Year 7 son. I home eded when my kids were in reception for a year but there are areas where I cannot tutor nor wish too as we will clash.

I'm looking for a tutor in French, Latin and English as I can do Maths and Science. I'm not too bothered about the other subjects for now. How can I find a high calibre tutor/s who will come in for 3-4 hours five days a week and teach my child and how much will it cost me?

Are there any societies/groups in the South Herts area? Watford, Barnet, St Albans etc?

Hi Colleger,

I don't know the answer to your question as I haven't employed the sort of tutor you have in mind. However, the total number of hours you are thinking of having a tutor sounds very high to me and I'd suggest it would be far in excess of what you are likely to need.

Where the LA is responsible for the education of a child who cannot attend school (because of long-term illness, say) they are only obliged to provide a total of five hours a week tutoring minimum. That covers all subjects. They can choose to provide more tutoring than that and occasionally may provide ten if the child is having a lot of trouble, but usually it is five. Tutors report that it is enough to keep the child caught up with what the rest of the class is doing.

Perhaps you are looking at the number of hours a week your child would be doing these subjects at school? (But even for that, I don't think a Y7 child gets anywhere near an hour a day of each subject, do they? Once you've taken account of all the breaktimes, assemblies, and the other subjects such as DT and PE and all that.) I think with one-to-one attention targeted on the areas your child needs, a little will go a very long way compared to school. It is a hugely more efficient way to learn.

See what other HE parents say, but an hour or more of tutoring per day per subject sounds very intense to me!

Hi

I just put "home tutor Hertfordshire" into google and got lots of links.

If you had tutors 4 hours a day 5 days a week that could cost you £600pw @ £30 per hour.

There are links on this forum to finding home education groups in different areas; I have a page on my website edyourself.org/groups (click on map or do CTRL F + Hertfordshire)

I'm struggling a bit because this is so very different from the home education I have practised and which is carried out by everyone I know. As I understand it, tutors tend to be used for a specific exam subject over a relatively short period of time, sometimes shared with other families, with the exception of families where literacy is an issue but there are cultural objections to school and a tutor will teach a group (which is not really home education in my view but that's another story)

Thanks for the posts. Any advice on the teaching of Latin or French would be appreciated, with or without a tutor.

You might get more responses about how children can learn languages if you post your question again with a different title. I imagine that many people won't be reading this thread as they may just look at the title and think, "South Herts, no, I don't know that area."

Ok, thanks!