Homeschooling schooling, school Refuser

[Castiel07]

I'm seriously thinking of homeschooling, my yr 8 child is bright and is willing to learn
But is school refusing (this has been since December).
We are not getting any support from school and her behaviour has become awful after having 6 months of her being back to her lovely normal self during lockdown.
I physically can not make her go in, she won't even put a uniform on she is petrified.
I'm a sahm as I'm a carer, husband works long hours though.
What they found useful while homeschooling?
What resources to use?
How easy is it actually to deregister your child.
Tia

@Saracen

You say your daughter is bright, eager to learn and had returned to her lovely normal self during lockdown. It seems that school is unbearable for her.

Extreme anxiety related to school attendance is often described as irrational. But for some children it is an entirely reasonable response to an environment which is a terrible mismatch for their character. In this case, no treatment, no counselling is going to "fix" the child by making her happy to go into a stressful environment.

If there are additional factors at play besides school simply being the wrong environment for your daughter, it should be easier to identify and address those factors once the massively stressful factor of school is gone and she is mostly happy. So you could take her out of school for a year and use that time to figure out what's going on with her and decide on the best way forward - maybe continued home ed, maybe return to school with better support, maybe college 14-16 programme. Why do you feel that home education wouldn't suit your her in the long term?

She's deeply unhappy now, and you have seen that she is quite happy without school. There's no simple solution to the problem while she remains at school, not least because her current school are being so useless. How long are you willing to put her and yourself through more of this, when a quick fix is at hand?

There are lots of resources available. You don't have to have a detailed plan in place before you deregister. You can figure it out as you go along.

She is in the grammar stream so is very able and bright. I worry that I wouldn't be able to get the best out of her learning wise and we can not afford extra tuition unfortunately. She has not met up with one friend since February and has isolated herself even though she has a lot of friends, she does talk on the phone and text them though. Its all a worry on what to do for the best. I am awaiting a reply from the school, and have a doctors appointment for Tuesday.

She last went into school on Monday, but she has only managed twice since they went back.
I have had only one phone call which was last week.
Not had any correspondence all week, how can I sort this out when they won't email or phone me back.

Get in touch with IAS or SENDIASS whatever it is called locally and ask them to get involved.

Thanks again for the links CulturallyAppropriatedName West Sussex tools look really good.
If only every borough were as good....