replicating private school education

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I was wondering if anybody had tried this mainly in terms of subject and if it had worked.
As far as resources and subjects go I am finding that both dh and I along with dd seem to be favouring the same type of philosophy I gather they use at private schools.
For example, dh would like to go down the route of emphasis on English Grammar and old fashioned (best way to describe) approach, which tends to be in line with PS entrance exam preparation.
We have no intention of sending dd to Grammar/ private school but do like this approach.
Has anybody done this and what resources/teaching methods did you use.
I know this approach probably wouldn't be popular with many but we are quite old fashioned thinking.

I would imagine that all private schools have a different philosophy - there is no general one- as do HE parents. Go with what suits you. Things generally work if you believe in them.

The one thing with HE is that you don't have o be popular.

Really what I am asking is did anybody go down the traditional route and where did they find resources. I quite like the several languages, latin, Grammar, route. However, am finding it hard getting resources that won't break the bank. It just seemed to be more of an approach to indie education that I had read on other ed threads. D/H is keen to do Grammar with dd but the stuff I find is fine for basics but won't stretch enough after a while.

Have you looked on eBay? -a great place for cheap resources.

What age are you talking about ?

What age are you talking about ?

If you want Latin have you tried minimus There is even a section for home schoolers.

If you are primary there are lots of ideas on primary resourses
I can't help on secondary.

Exotic, thank you for responses. I am looking at primary, dd just left y3, but not particularly nc. Not that I have anything against nc, its just that most resources are classroom based, worksheets etc. A bit of variety would be really good and also text that tests comprehension from traditional sources.
I will try minimus thank you. I will wait until I'm feeling brave as I have no knowledge here at all.

Is 'the well trained mind' the sort of thing you are thinking of? I know very little about it except it is a 'classical education' and structured, there are forums about it if you google. Another HE-der locally uses it, her son is 10

There are loads of verbal and non-verbal reasoning books.

Look online for grammar and arithmetic exercises.

Do languages and lots of sports.

The Well Trained Mind is a US program.

It also describes one of its key proponents as "born in 1968 ... educated at home by pioneering parents, back when home education was still unheard of"!

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Thank you and I will check this out. I don't know what I want as I didn't experience this in education. Its my dh's flippin fault. Although I do have a tendency to agree with him about sliding standards in the nc.

1968 education sounds about right, although the 1970's experience is not one I like to reflect on, I still tremble thinking about it.

I'm not too knowledgeable but have heard good things about

Minimus for Latin
The Well Trained Mind
Galore Park Publishers: specialist British textbook publisher for independent schools, apparently very HE-friendly
and the HE forum alittlebitofstructure.webs.com/ for curricula of all sorts, which I am pretty sure is British

Good luck finding what you are after!

Yes I'd agree, Classical Education/Well Trained Mind, sounds the sort of thing you might be looking for.

not my cup of tea, but I've heard good things about it from those who have followed it, and you know your family best.

Minimus is absolutely fabulous!! I went to a private school and my Latin teacher was Barbara Bell, the author of minimus, can really recommend it for an 'old school' approach :)

Wow thanks very much for all the suggestions, will check them all out.

Julie, not sure its my cup of tea yet, I may make dh do it as he is so hell bent. I just don't really like the nc and would like to see other alternatives and the idea of Latin appealed to dd, for what reason I have no idea.
I did check out Minimus and is a strong possibility, depending on how much other resources will set us back.

My DS did it in his state primary - schools do manage to work around the nc! They are not all the same.

Sorry - not very clear - he did the Latin which was why I was able to give the link.

Julie, I have looked at the well trained mind and not my cup of tea. However, thank you all for suggesting it as I wouldn't have known of its existance and have learned something.
I think the concept is brilliant and its supporters make sense, but not for dd.

I think I maybe need something a bit along these lines but not as drastic in the classics.

I tend to be put off things if they are American - the most useful part seems links to websites and a reading list for when they are older.

I do like the philosophy of the trained mind and the different stages. I think I can remember this now from my PGCE. However, I would like to apply this philosophy to a more up to date curriculum. I have decided for now to follow the bits I like from a variety of (curricula?) E.g dd with her love of music has decided to do a historical time line of composers/instruments etc. Not on the nc as far as I know.

I don't think that you need to get bogged down with the NC-schools do lots outside it e.g. I did a whole thing on opera with year 2. I would have thought with HE that you could just ignore it completely-or just read it and take the bits you like.

We'll be doing something like an independent school approach.

DD has just left a selective prep school and I did like their systematic teaching of grammar, several languages and music. Funnily enough one of our bug bears with the school was that they'd just phased out Latin in favour of mandarin.

We'll be using galore park for English and maths I think. I'm going to look at the Latin resources mentioned here. We're going it alone for everything else.

In some ways HE replicates the indie atmosphere anyway - no pointless droning assemblies / no disruptive children / individual attention etc.

I'm a Chair of governors in a state infant school and I'm frequently appalled by the way grammar is not taught in our feeder junior school. DS certainly won't be setting foot in the place!