am i doing enough each day

[aempow]

how much formal education do i need to do at home each day ,we are due to meet the lea for the first time soon ,we have only been home ed for 2 weeks ,we had to escape today for a few hours outside to blow the cobwebs off .

Where abouts do you live?

We don't do any formal learning at all.
No lessons, no work books, none.

You do realise you don't have to meet with the LA don't you?

They have the right to make informal enquiries if they have reason to believe an education is not taking place.

In practice this almost always means that they will make enquiries, but the choice of how you give this information is always the parents.

We deregistered the children from school seven years ago.
We have never had a home visit, the LA have never seen the children and the LA have never seen any work.
Quite frankly we have never seen the point.
They don't have anything to offer us that can't be got more effectively from the home ed community.
The visit would be stressful for the children-so why bother?

Many people send in Educational Philosophies (a sort of why you do it and how) with a list of resources and a list of topics/projects/workshops covered.

If you have only been home educating for two weeks it is far to early for an LA visit anyway!
Write to them and tell them you are still settling into your home education and working out what is best for you as a family and that you will get back in touch with them when you have things more sorted.

There is an article about home-education.org.uk/article-deschooling.htm
many families allow their children time to deschool and re-acclimatises him or her self towards the new environment of home education from the school environment. I think this is very important indeed.

Another article from the same website Home Education UK covers
Home visits and why we might refuse them and also about the importance of Educational Philosophies

Have a good look around this site and the Education Otherwise one-there is a page there about different learning styles

Learning and education can be done in so many ways- we spent several hours outside today, blowing away the cobwebs and looking at the world around us and saw lots of nature to interest us and covered many subjects just by talking-latitude and longitude, time, the function of the liver and food digestion, to name a few of today's topics.

The following is one of my favourite websites which helps to describe the Informal/Autonomous way we educate

Hope that helps a little.

aempow - whether you decide to accept LEA visits or not is entirely up to you.

We did at first, and it went really well.

Now we just send in our Education Philosophy, and a list of resources, visits etc, because we don't see the point of giving up half a day to go over old ground with an agency that is providing us with precisely nothing.

But either way, whether you want to accept visits or not, it might be a good idea to contact the LEA and tell them that you need some time to get your HE established, and that the visit needs to be postponed.

If you've only been HE for a couple of weeks, you will still all be acclimatising to the changes in your lives, and de-schooling, and working out how HE is going to work for you.

Don't be pushed into anything you feel uncomfortable with.

thanks for the messages , i really want to make this work for my son .