Teenage home education

[KMA1969]

I am looking at home schooling my DS who is 14 years old. Please can anyone share their home schooling time table and give any advice of how to keep things varied and interesting ?
Thank you in advance

Have you considered online schools? I've just signed my teenage son up to Cambridge Online School. There is Interhigh and Myonlineschool too.

We do a mixture of things at home (workbooks, online resources etc) and out in the home ed community (there's more going on than we could possibly join in with, including groups for drama, swimming, sports, heritage field trips, art, music, science, languages... And also some groups aimed specifically at the older age range, to avoid the toddler group vibe...

Thank you so much, really helpful.

Every ones schedule will be different. I have a 13yo. We do a mix of stuff like Ommward says. Varies week by week. It's getting more routine as we get in to gcses but we still need variety so mix books, classes (online and real life), days out, home ed group activities, videos, online quizzes, science practicals, just chatting...
Today he's had two lessons at our local HE tutorial centre. Sat and helped a younger child with maths while I can a tutorial. Then we went geocaching with friends around a local historic building. We take weekends off although he will have a piece of homework. Monday morning will be mainly book work until he has an online tutorial. Afternoon will involve seeing grandparent.
Tues we are signed up to a Live Lesson from the RSC so we'll squash in homework for tutorials before, watch the lesson and then in afternoon he's starting a new online class for 4 weeks (done through a phone app - video conference). Weds we are up in London with friends in a History trip (Banquetting House) and to see the Van Gogh exhibition. Thurs will be a late start, hopefully finish book work for the week and then do some practical science. Friday is back to group tutorials.

My daughter is 14. A 'typical' week looks like this:

Monday
IGCSE Latin Lesson (I help her with this and a pupil at a local state school has permission to join us as the school doesn't offer the subject)
Singing Lesson (external teacher)

Tuesday

IGCSE Biology (Net School - online school)
Level 4 Art Course (OCAD)
Musical Theatre (local adult company)

Wednesday

IGCSE History (Net School)
Musical Theatre (local junior company)

Thursday

IGCSE English Lit (Net School)
Level 4 Art Course (OCAD)
Pottery class (local adult class)

Friday

All day at a local Montessori Elementary Centre (my daughter is officially over age but she still finds the practical maths work very helpful and has a kind of pupil/teacher role a lot of of the day).

Between these 'fixed' events, she does homework for all the 'qualification subjects', practises her singing, practises tap dancing (we bought an online course), bakes and cooks, reads a huge amount, plays the ukele incessantly, felts pictures semi-professionally (people commission her work) and does lots of graphic art.

She already has IGCSE English Language and will complete all her other IGCSE courses over the next 15 months. After that, we are going to take a year to focus on IGCSE maths. If all goes according to plan, she will get her IGCSE Maths when she is 16 and then she can decide what the next step is going to be... At the moment she favours courses with the OU over A levels but all of that might change.

My main advice would be to follow the interests of your son as much as you can and remember that home education is an extraordinarily efficient way to learn. Sometimes I think I'm doing nothing with my daughter, but reading this post makes me realise she is actually learning a lot!