Home education

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My DH is really keen for me to home educate our DD, she’s currently only 18 months so we’re a way off but I’d be really interested in others experiences of home educating their children in the UK. I’d love to know what a typical day looks like and what resources are available to you in your local area to help with home educating, such as groups with other home educated children, and what made you decide home educate your children/ what you think the benefits are, please. I’m looking into this now because if we do decide to home educate I’d like to do some sort of home preschool prior to her being primary school age. Thank you so much in advance.

That's good to hear! Pleased your young person is the exception (in my experience) and coping well 🙌🏼

Again, 🤷🏼‍♀️

Sorry @friskeryI know I responded but missed the operative point - who says HE'd are 'very academic'? Isn't it the case, their parents think they are?
There is no comparator if you're not measured against peers.
Hence my point HE'd do not do well, when eventually amongst their peers...

Hi OP! Firstly, 18 months is definitely not too young to be looking into this. In my area there is a Facebook group specifically for those in your position, hoping to home educate a child that is currently under school age 🙂 On a recent home ed meet we were at there was a 5 month old there! Very welcome.

We’re currently home educating 3 children. One thing I would say is that even though I am the SAHM we try and do educational stuff when we’re both around, as then we can give more one to one attention. So even if your DH is working, he could definitely get involved at weekends/evenings etc.

We do a lot of day trips as part of our HE. We have a few annual passes for things near us e.g National Trust/various historic places etc so we get out and about a lot. I make sure we do reading/writing/maths daily. Science/Geography/History we try and build in wherever we can. There are SO MANY apps/websites/resources/work sheets out there you’ll be spoilt for choice. (I really rate the cgp daily practice books to make sure I’m ticking off the National curriculum but that’s just personal preference).

The meet-ups with other home educated children are mostly for social for us (think den building in the woods/soft play/trampolining/picnics) but there are a number of other visits we’ve been to e.g. group farm visits etc.

I think home ed is quite often a sort of lifestyle choice. Good luck on your journey!

Thank you so much for the information.

Thank you so much for the information.

I wonder why your setting is so poor at supporting them?
Are you doing anything differently now you've identified this issue, or just blaming the parents as the rest of the school system does?

What an unusual situation you're in that you have so many ideological, academically able home educated teenagers who have had no previous problems with schools coming to your college, and then they all fail.

They're able and motivated enough to get several 6+ GCSEs on their own which certainly suggests academic ability.

But I think either there's something very wrong with your college or you are bullshitting 😂

Goodness, read again! Three GCSEs is not 'several' - 6 is a B and achieved via rote learning of past papers. I'm sorry my factual and honest contribution does not suit your narrative

Nail on head 👌

Spot on

Careful @friskery@spicetails- you're very close to acknowledging HEd students are joining A Levels with significantly lower attainment than their peers...
might I suggest you employ a tutor for reading comprehension and critical thinking skills, it's clearly not your strong point.

There are such small numbers of home educated 16 year olds
Even smaller numbers that weren't withdrawn from schools
Even smaller numbers with no SEN and not neurodivergent
AND they didn't go to college for GCSEs so an even smaller number...
Yet they all flock to this one particular college with a terrible track record for home ed students to the point where they make up almost 10% of your student body?

It just seems a bit incredible 🤣

I highly recommend home education for early years & KS1. I think the length of day in combination with the curriculum just makes it inappropriate developmentally, I think it lays a foundation for trauma/ anxiety later in life.
I think KS2 is a great time to send your child to school, if you choose to do so. Or maybe KS3. Though I do know a handful that have done well being home educated for secondary, though most left school late primary. There is a culture of incorrectly done unschooling / educational neglect within home ed community, which is something to be aware of when taking advice from FB groups.
I’d highly recommend starting out thinking you’ll do it for whole of KS1 and then just cross that bridge when you come to it

What do you want me to say? Am I to recant? Tell you what you want to hear? Your aggressive responses to my reasoned contributions tell me you are impervious to any real discussion.
It really is no secret - HE'd kids do not do well in exam based, full study programmes which require three subjects and 15 hours of timetabled study.
The data speaks for itself.
You have no idea which part of the country I work in, the schools surrounding, or the FE options.
Your 'attack' as the best form of 'defence' speaks volumes.
No, we don't fail our students, we do the best with what we are given.
Yes, we have identified issues with HE'd - it's a shame you, one the one hand, refuse to acknowledge the limitations, but on the other hand, expect us to pick up the pieces.
For clarity, 95% of HE'd do not progress to year two, however, 97% of non HE'd, do

Maybe direct your energy into considering why, rather than rabid posts at those trying to get kids through what are very tough qualifications

@friskeryPS given you're the expert, why DO we get a flood of HE'd at A Level?
I'm genuinely curious, to know?
Why do you hand over the reigns, figuratively, at this seminal point of learning?

Actually, I know why. It's because you need those UCAS points, isn't it? 🤣
No amount of HE is going to generate those, eh?
Ease up on the hyperbole and finger pointing and afford respect to those who actually teach, please

“It’s widely acknowledged that state school doesn’t prepare well for the 11+”

You’re wrong - state schools specifically do NOT teach or prepare for the 11+ because it’s not on the curriculum.

😐

🤣 it's giving big "thank me for my service" vibes

I'll say it again - lots of teachers choose to home educate their own children. I wonder why that is?

I home educate. My child is 14 so a.bit different.

We stick to school term times as my other children go to school. We plan week by week on a topic and then link that to the specifications in English and Maths for his igcses (as he is working towards them) when he was you get, we did topics (space, victorians, tutors etc( and based work around those, making sure he covered all the basics re literacy and numeracy, science etc.

Dont listen to people who talk about socialisation being an issue because as long as you out the effort in, home ed kids have a greater opportunity to socialise with a much wider range of people, rather than just their age group as rhey tend to at school. My son goes to cadets, fitness group, youth group, youth Council and a local home ed group. He is just at ease talking to adults as he is kids his own age, leads little ones in activities and so on. At the home ed group we go to, he and his 16 year old friend were playing scrabble with 8/9 year olds, taught a 5 year old the macerena and then were sitting with one of the adults having a coffee and talking about supermarket loyalty card schemes. However, you do have to put rhe effort in when theyre younger to find groups and activities- and most areas have plenty!

I haven't read all.replies but my son passed his A.Levels, self taught including
Further Maths. He didn't require any assistance from me, all of the information is free on line. I carried on going to work as normal, he sorted out where he would sit exams, it was pretty plain sailing. He did attend primary school, Secondary school didn't work for him.
He got a sponsorship from University, and is also working remote, part time for an American software engineering company.
He said taking him out of school was the best thing l ever did, it did require a leap of faith.
Most important aspect was that he really thrived and his confidence grew no end, as did his love of learning.

That's amazing! Well done, to your son 🙌🏼

Why are you laughing? What is your point, aside from parroting your (uncited) point from earlier, up thread?
Bizzare response...