curriculum packages

[abitpearshaped]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good primary curriculum package?
DH will not consider EHE unless a structured curriculum is used, so although I prefer the idea of autonomous, I think that in order for him to feel comfortable that we are providing an education, a package is needed - at least to get us started.
Thanks.

Lots of information on the Structured Home Ed Forum about lots of curricula - both bought in and stuff people put together themselves. It's a 'private' forum so if you are interested, send your email address to this email and someone will sort you out an invite.

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Regarding Witsend, from what I have heard, you can get all the books for their packages from amazon/bookshops and it's much cheaper. So you are paying quite a lot for a timetable!!

I've seen Catherine Mooney's stuff (I think she only does English) and I liked it and would certainly consider it for GCSE.

you can buy the same packs from educan that witsend use for a lot cheaper! we have the foundation pack and it works well!

thanks for the info, much appreciated. Will look into all the options.

Lots of people I know use Sonlight. It's an American Christian company but you can skip those bits if you want. It's quite expensive but you could just buy the 'instructor's guide' for whatever year and get the books secondhand - they're all listed on their website.

There's also Five in a Row, which has quite a neat idea of arranging lessons around one classic children's book a week- so numbers, geography etc would all be tied in to the story.

You could always just use the government national curriculum schemes here. That's what we did when the girls first came out of school. Just look under each individual subject and pick the correct age.

Two advantages, it's free, and DH can be reassured they are following exactly what they would be in school (I'm not sure that's so great nowadays but it was very reassuring at the beginning ).