Can anyone tell me how home education works please?

[Challen]

Can anyone tell me how home education works please? I have no teaching experience. Background is on the Primary Education thread under 'in-Year Admission' thread, but basically, my daughter has been turned down for transfer in Year 1 as no places in a school in the next street, for one with worst Ofsted rating in town, a good 25-30min walk away.

I will consider home ed if that's what it takes, for however many terms, until she can work way up the waiting list for that school, yet Ihave no idea how long those waiting lists are.

And this is a nondescript provincial East Midlands town, not even London! I thought over-subscription only happened in London!

Challen
Hello, sorry you are troubled with the stupid system that exists, just to get into a school.
I can't really answer your question indepth as everybody is different and what one family do another will do something completely different.
Very few have got teaching experience and those who have, including me usually state it doesn't really help or give any advantage.
Some people are structured and almost duplicate the n.c with assessments, planning etc. Others are completely free of curriculum and do what the dc are interested in when they want to do it. Of course then theres all the rest in the middle.
I would advise reading the threads on here, as far back as you can as there is nowhere else I have seen with so much info. Post questions as they pop into your head and somebody will be able to help.

Sorry, meant to add, nobody will think your questions stupid we have all been where you are. I just started out and you can see some of the daft things I have asked.

It works however you (and your daughter) decide to make it work!

You could look at what she'd be doing in school under the NC and buy workbooks etc for that level.

You could focus on areas which you think she needs to work on - whether that's her reading or numeracy or social skills or whatever.

You could pick some topic or other as a "project" and pick out library books on volcanoes or trains or whatever she finds interesting, so she'd be practicing reading, and then maybe writing up stories and drawing pictures on her chosen subject.

Or you could view the whole of life as being a chance to learn things, and let her practice skills by counting out bus money, reading a recipe and helping you weigh the ingredients, going for "nature walks" etc.

It doesn't need teaching experience, because explaining things one-to-one and finding things out together require different skills from explaining things to a whole class and keeping them on track.