Home school help!

[tibywibs]

Hi All,
Started another thread last week regarding an in year admission from one county to another for my son in year 1.
Now i need to know how i go about home schooling him as he will be absent from school for 3 weeks at least until the appeal date. (and maybe more according to when he gets a start date or another school, should the appeal be unsuccessful.)
Do i contact the LA for work or would his current school teacher give us tips on what to be working on?
Also, we move on friday but he was going to be staying in one county with his dad and carry on at school, but he is getting into mess about this crying and saying he doesn't want to stay here without me and his sister. Is it too short notice to tell his school he'll be leaving on friday (20th) if i speak to his class teacher today?
Thanks in advance!

No one will help you home school your child. You're welcome to do it, but you have to decide yourself what and how to teach him.

There's a whole home ed board for you to get advice on.

You don't need to give any notice to school. You can remove him from school today - just put it in writing to school that you're removing him from school and home schooling him.

Legally, you don't have to give any kind of minimum notice to the school that he's leaving - you could turn up this afternoon with a letter saying he won't be back tomorrow and hand it in to the office, and you'd be covered as far as the technicalities are concerned. So telling them this afternoon is fine - it'll give the teacher a chance to talk to him and the class to "say goodbye" however she handles that sort of thing.

You could ask her for a note of what they've been covering, to let you work from there if you think it might be prolonged, but for just 3 weeks I wouldn't worry too much about what needs to be covered at home. The new school will assess him and get him into the right groups anyway, so missing 3 weeks of one planned schedule won't make any real difference.

If he likes routine, then maybe plan something like some reading and maths worksheets in the morning, but only if you think that'll make him more settled than having a "holiday" at an odd time. There's probably enough to be doing together anyway, in a new house and new area, without doing any school work.

Personally, I'd leave any "schooling" till after the appeal date, then think about plans when you know how much longer it's likely to be.

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