Home edders - I really need your wisdom and guidance to support my ds who knows his school is not teaching anything and wants my help to do some more...

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Primary Resources website could be a good starting point. Also, if you Google KS2 resources you should get some free downloadable stuff. There's loads out there once you start looking.

Please ignore me or flame me or stick pins in a wax model of me (whichever gives you most satisfaction!) but here are my initial thoughts in random order. What happens when you take it up with the school? How did he get on in year 3 SATS? Have you talked to the Head?

Is his year group set for numeracy and literacy and is he in the right set? Is there any topic work he does in class that he could take further at home? MY Ds, for example did a lot of extra work in the Romans topic last term because he was interested, and it involved him in a lot of reading and writing.

Are there particular areas you are worried about?

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There are companies which provide a fully planned curriculum for primary and secondary age children - eg WitsEnd which has a package for each school year, though obviously it has a cost. That would almost certainly be more than he needs, as it is meant to cover everything no just top up, but you could always skip bits if he's already confident in them.

Otherwise, you could think through the subjects he is interested in and google for free worksheets in each of those, then swap round the subjects as much as you like to keep it interesting.

And, as Seeker says, it's worth talking through tis with the school to see if they have any suggestions for stretching him more - they may be sympathetic, you never know!

CGP books are good and have workbooks for just about every subject, following the National Curriculum. You could buy him the workbooks and get him to plough through them with not much input form you.

For maths and english, we very much like Bond No Nonsense. It does what it says on the tin, just maths and english, no gimmicks, a book for each year group. But DD2 (she's 9 and Y5 but we did them in Y4 too) loves them, weirdly! The link is here - www.nelsonthornes.com/bondnononsense/

By the way, the worksheets it links to are extras designed to supplement the book. I'd suggest getting the book as the main thing as it explains everything really well.

Ignoring is cool!

Does your DS actually need structured, ie prepared work to do? Or could you start with a less tiring for you version of Home ed on Sundays?

Might he be happy with 'deepdiving' into some favourite topics. Providing resources in the form of library books, charity shop books around the topic, magazines , newspapers, dvds, tv opportunities... could be basis for him to pore over what he's keen on.

Then..if he's the writing, drawing or cutting out articles type he might want to compile files or booklets all about his topic of the moment.

Just a thought, based on my approach which has been created by what works for close me and my HE son 11.

Sunday mornings round the table, laptops working, papers strewn about, library books perilously close to bowls of cereal....all making up purposive conversation (ie nit picking and arguments).

I immediately thought of Primary Resources
this page-good for all subjects. I also recommend the Woodlands Junior School website
this page