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As so many of our usually unconscious patterns and routines are suddenly having to be rethought (with all their starbursts of connections also rethought) those trying to add school at home into the mix will possibly be experiencing some serious cases of mashed potato brain.
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The next few posts are catching this blog up with some of my facebook activity in the last two weeks…
Firstly – regarding homeschooling, schooling at home… isolation schooling… social distance school – whatever you want to call it. Kids are coming home to learn due to schools needing to close.
Continue reading “Corona Home-school post #1”
This year our little art ‘room’ has 15 participants who range in age between 10-16. It’s the biggest and most diverse group in terms of age I’ve had. Sometimes I find the choosing of projects daunting but need to remember I have an existing list of ideas longer than we could achieve in 3 lifetimes and to just chill. I’m not a teacher – which has pros and cons – but I love the experience of achievement, satisfaction and outright pleasure that comes with completing something where you’ve learned/enjoyed the process and its outcome. I equally love watching that happen with these kids.
Continue reading “2019 H.S. art project: 1”
Have spent a good chunk of the day putting together this art page of pieces from our little homeschool group. Come have a look at the wonderful stuff they’ve been turning out!
These articles are for those who either currently home school, are considering home schooling, are curious about the WA curriculum or who have teens they’re not sure how best to see through the upper school years. They are not intended to convince anyone of my own preferences – just to share information. We’ve had 4 kids complete Year 12 in school, 1 who left at the end of Year 10 to do an apprenticeship, and 2 who began home schooling in Years 10 and 2.
1. W.A. – some year 11/12 Home Ed options.
I spent a good deal of time in our first year of home schooling (2015) researching ideas to round out our year 10 daughters education/experience/resume and plan for her upper school years.
Here is some of what I found….
2. W.A. – Curriculum mind map outline F-10 in ONE page
I don’t actually hate the curriculum and am more schoolish in my thinking possibly than many of you (again due to having had kids in school for 22 years) so this post is for those of you who do use it, or at least would like to have an overview of it… This screenshot is of a mind-map I made in my first year of Home Ed as I wanted to see if it all actually made sense… did the learning areas have a flow?… Did they build?… Was it random? Turns out it does flow, does build and isn’t random….
Follow here to read more and download the map.
3. Regarding Moderator Meetings
Home-educating friends – I know I come across a bit militant on this topic from time to time but having come out of 20 years schooling into the freedom of homeschooling – it really bothers me when, in particular new home-school parents feel as though they don’t have the freedoms that they actually do… In my own quest for clarity, I put together a document that distils the requirements of the School Education Act (law) and the Home Education Policy (which should not exceed the law).
Continue reading here.
4. Alternative Education for Years 11-12
If you have kids soon to be in the years 11-12 age bracket – the Department of Training and Workforce Development provide a host of very viable and affordable options to staying in school. Kids can leave school at the end of year 10, while still in the compulsory school-age bracket, as long as they’re in a situation that is of equal or more benefit to being in school – work or training can both qualify – there just needs to be an arrangement in place with an employer/trainer and the Education Department. Keep reading and find relevant links here.
Home-educating friends – it really bothers me when, in particular new home-school parents feel as though they don’t have the freedoms that they actually do.
Four things I’d like to say…
Continue reading “Regarding Moderator Meetings”
I don’t actually hate the curriculum and am more schoolish in my thinking possibly than many of you (again due to having had kids in school for 22 years) so this post is for those of you who do use it, or at least would like to have an overview of it…
Continue reading “W.A. Curriculum mind map outline F-10 in ONE page”
I started home schooling our youngest two (of 7) kids when they were in years 2 and 10 so I spent a good deal of time that first year (2015) researching ideas to round out our year 10 daughters education/experience/resume and plan for her upper school years. Here is some of what I found.
Continue reading “W.A. – Some year 11/12 Home Ed options”
By a string of peculiar circumstances, little Miss 10 found herself in a long conversation with an elderly gentleman in which the pair of them were completely engaged and the delight in their voices was heard even when the words themselves weren’t audible to me. I longed to be part of it but did not want to shift the balance in this sunshiny place so I kept myself at a distance.
Continue reading “Miss 10 and a poet converse in the sun”
If you have kids soon to be in the years 11-12 age bracket – this link and this link (both at the Department of Training and Workforce Development) provide a host of very viable and affordable options to school. Kids can leave school at the end of year 10, while still in the compulsory school-age bracket, as long as they’re in a situation that is of equal or more benefit to being in school – work or training can both qualify – there just needs to be an arrangement in place with an employer/trainer and the Education Department.
Continue reading “Alternative Education for Year 11/12”