Thinking of home-edding Year 10

[ellie7347]

DD loves learning and has just started year 10 and is in top sets for most subjects. She is very motivated to do well but there is constant disruption in class. We are seriously considering pulling her before Oct half term as her work is being very affected.

There is a local program for Home Ed - where they can sit GCSE in Engligh, Maths, and Double Science.

On top of this, we were looking at distance learning courses through NEC or Oxford. Maybe five subjects. She plans to do A Levels at college if she can.

Just wondering how many GCSE's is too much. We were thinking of splitting the five distance learning GCSE's so she could do 2-3 this year and the rest in Year 11.

I am home-based and we do have the budget to cater for the exams and course costs.

Any advice would be appreciated.

can't you find her another school? You are still early in the year and schools will take more pupils in year 10 if they have space. Are you sure that there's still disruption? My eldest is also year 10 and top sets, he told me that the behaviour in all his classes is absolutely perfect and that the children who had a tendency to be smart asses (the behaviour throughout the school is generally very good) have totally knuckled down this term and that everyone is pretty serious about getting on with learning.

Have you looked at online schools such as interhigh?

You need to look into where she can sit and at what cost the GCSEs. This is quite complex. Also do look carefully as to whether she can get the practical endorsement for the Science exam.

Also I would say that disruption often lessens considerably in year 10 as students are doing fewer of the subjects that they have no interest for, and there is more setting.

I say go For it, we home Ed and it's very beneficial for ds, he learns alot at his pace and there's no fear of being disturbed

I think you need to look ahead beyond A levels.

DD is currently looking at universities, and with the demise of AS exams universities are increasingly looking at GCSEs. For some courses they are keen to see them being sat at the same time, not over a couple of years.