Home schooling 12 year olds

[uniquewoman]

Good morning to you all, I have almost come to the end of my tether with my twins secondary school and am now looking into home educating them for a few months whilst I attempt to get them into the school that I want them to attend, they are suffering both bullying and racism and as much as the school is trying to sort it out, the school itself is too big and they are unable to cope with this paticular year 7.. I have read though a lot of your posts but most of them seem to be about primary age children. I want to keep them on track with the national curriculum and am quite capable of doing so ( with some help from my seventeen yr old in maths..lol) I understand that I need to de-register them at school and that the LEA will be on my back to check that they are progressing, question is is there any support for children of this age, where do I get the books from? will I be able to register them again with any problems, as I really do want them to go back to school? Is it harder to move them to a different school if they are HE.

I am sure that this has been asked before and I apologise if it has, but cannot find it on the forum

I am under the Leeds LEA

Any advice would be appreciated so that I can make the proper choice for my twins

Niki

I don't HE but wouldn't hesitate to pull my child out of school if they were bullied and the issue wasn't resolved. I've never understood parents not acting. I do know someone whose child was bullied and in the end she HE until primary. Apparently (don't know if it's true) the council were so keen to have her back in school that she had the pick of schools. If I were to HE, I would teach english, maths, history, geography and a language and piano lessons. My 12 year spends a lot on time on lessons that in reality, wouldn't be missed.

Hi, I'm home edding my son who is 11 and daughter 10. I noticed you mentioned about them being stressed and having tummy aches etc.....Incidently my daughter was always complaining of tummy aches, feeling sick etc whilst at school. In the 5 months we've home educated she's never ever been ill or complained of aches etc!
It illustrates the stress that school can place on us. Our house is a very happy, co-operative place nowdays and although I've always loved my children I now realise what wonderful people they are - and how lovely it is to get the best of them everyday.
I wish you well on your journey to making your children happy x

Hello :) my names Michaela and I am a third year student and Canterbury Christ Church university. Sorry if this is not the right place to post but I am finding it very difficult to reach groups of home school parents. I am currently trying to research whether home school parents would/do use environmental education centres for learning outside the classroom. I am also trying to find out what is the most effective way is to reach home school parents? For example online forums, social media, flyers, leaflets, stalls at home school fairs? I would really appreciate it if anybody has any information on the subject please reply on here or if you would like to email me [email protected].

thank you

I wish that I was more informed on homeschooling years ago when my son was younger as he is now almost 18 and never got on in School at all. Was always late and just found the whole school system difficult. I feel so bad for him especially as my daughter who is 12 is now just at the beginning of homeschooling as her inability to feel relaxed at school, always feeling ill,migranes,poor attendance that I didn't know to give him that opportunity. I do feel quite unsure about the whole home school thing,pretty scared to be honest and because im a single parent i suppose it seems even more daunting. But with her reluctance to go to school,hating it I hope i have made the right decision. Good luck to all of you though. I think its a very brave thing to do.

Can anyone help at all? I have a nearly 12yo and he has been at home since Christmas. I'm trying to go through the curriculum coursebooks with him, for various subjects - he was doing really well at his school, despite being unhappy - but he is feeling lost and isolated despite having friends where we live.

It was such a horrible shock to be separated from his classmates at 11, his old friends mostly went to grammar and he started alone at a comprehensive school where he got bullied for a whole term.

He begged me to take him out and so I did in December. We are on a (long, hopeless) waiting list for one school (where he doesn't want to go as it's rough) and nowhere else has a place. He has taken the test again for the grammar where his friends went, just this week, in case he managed to get in late, but did not get through.

He feels such a sense of loss. I have no idea what to do.

Any thoughts appreciated.

I may start my own thread actually as this one seems to have been a few days old...sorry...thank you anyway

Thank you!

My son had quite a bad time at his high school but he survived it just about. He flew though his mocks after a roller coaster during years 8 and 9 and we were all expecting a wonderful result for his GCSEs and he failed all but 2 of them 🙀🙀 he was signed up to go to sixth form in his school but they dropped him flat and said sorry you can’t resit!! Whhaat ?? So then I had to get him into a good sixth form college at great expense travel wise!! To resit important GCSEs and then he eventually got into an arts college because he’s more creative musically!! Nightmare !! I’m now about to go through another roller coaster with my ddughter also creative hyper sensitive didnt get into her preferred high school donthinking about pulling her out as I don’t want her to go to the same high school as her brother as they failed him so badly!!! I’m thinking I might try and home Ed her if I can’t get her in on appeal !! What are the options like good or bad in your experience??!!

Hi Beccawoo3

Did you decide to go ahead with homeschooling your daughter? I've decided to do so with my daughter, starting at the end of this term. She's in year 7.

I know of others for whom this has been a great success, so if you think it's right for your child and for you, go for it!

I am based in Devon and my daughter has had non stop racism for the last 10 years from nursery to secondary.
I pulled her out of school in yr 4-5 for a year and she excelled but we got too isolated.
In secondary school it all happened again. Numb-skulls. So I pulled her out. She is now 2 years ahead and taking her GCSE Maths 2 years early. She's happy, funny and excelling in all subjects. We are isolated but it's better than having racism and bullying by numbskull idiots and teachers. We are on the Oxford Home learning program. I highly recommend it. xxxx Stay in touch if you want x Helen

Hi I’m taking my 12 year old out of school due to anxiety and the way she has been treated at school need some advice on what apps and learning we can get for her please uk feeling really nervous about homeschooling want to do our best for her

@Jophoebe77 you need to start your own new thread. This one is 15 years old. Then people will see it and comment.

@Jophoebe77 I am so sorry your daughter is having issues at school.

I began home-educating my daughter when she was part way through year 7. I suggest getting support from Education Otherwise which is a charity that works to support the home-educating community. It has an active FB group. There are many, many resources out there. We have tried various providers; The Good, The Bad, The Ugly... I have used Twinkl for worksheets and find that for KS3 & KS4, Learn Laugh Play does a fabulous range of quality online lessons that are really affordable. Awe Club is excellent. My daughter now 15, sat her first GCSE, 2 years ago and did really well. She starts her full range of GCSEs next week. I wish you all the very, very best!