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Only HE until Sep

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Clack · 03/03/2010 20:11

I've recently moved house and have been unable to get my daughter into the local school so decided to HE until September.
I have toyed with HE since she started primary school; primarily because of how bright she is, but shy, so tended to hide her light. We are really enjoying it, but find I am panicking because I am worried whether we should be working like "school" or just going at her own pace, "deschooling" ?
In fact part of me is considering HE until she goes to secondary school

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AMumInScotland · 04/03/2010 09:28

You don't have to work like school - unless that's what you both want - just go at her pace and see how it goes. If you're both enjoying it when September comes, then you can decide together whether you just want to carry on "for now" - it doesn't have to be a definite decision about it being till Secondary school or anything else, just that it is working at the moment.

ommmward · 04/03/2010 12:38

I'd deschool. IF she's going to go back into school alter, she'll reschool then

SpringHeeledJack · 04/03/2010 20:15

I think that if you go at her pace, particularly since she's been at school already, you'll be amaaaazed at how much ground you've covered- without really noticing - if/when she does rejoin school.

musicposy · 04/03/2010 22:25

I'd second what everyone else says about going with the flow. Just do what seems to suit you both at the moment. The nice thing about home ed is it doesn't have to be set in stone, you can let her work autonomously and later become more structured, or you can start with structure and then move away from that, or start autonomously and stay that way, or do a bit of both, or change it as it suits you.
If you both decide to still do it in September, you can always look at it again, and either try a new way of working, or decide that what you've been doing so far is just fine as it is. I'm always amazed at what my 10 year old manages to learn at times when I am too darned lazy busy teaching her elder sister to do anything at all with her!

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