http://thebarts.blogsome.com Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:46:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I will not give up. I believe wholeheartedly in home education and letting my children learn as and when they are ready and interested in things. I have seen it happen. Ticking boxes and having plans are not going help our process unless we decide that it ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/10/14/dear-mr-ed-balls-and-the-dcsf-no-thank-you/ for anyone with an interest in history. Looks kid friendly history cookbook I haven’t had a good look yet, but will do once I’m back online, we’re hoping to do rations for 2 weeks if I don’t have too much resistance from the troops! http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/09/20/this-looks-a-good-site/ had a lovely week away in Scotland and around the border. Just what the doctor ordered really and James and I came back really relaxed. It was a tiny village right on the sea front just over the border. It was so rocky though that sometimes it ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/09/20/checking-in-and-out/ Why did we decide to home educate? Initially we were worried about the local schools that we were unfortunate to live near. It must have been before A was born and I remember just being appalled at the lack of road sense and manners of the kids on the way ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/09/07/why-and-how/ aka copying the Beans mission statement idea!! Well I’ve worked out that M will be starting Y5 this year and A will be starting Y3. It doesn’t mean much to us in the way things are done round here but it might be useful to know when the LEA turn ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/09/04/things-wed-like-to-achieve-over-the-next-year/ I always think that engineering will be right up M’s street and have various bits and bobs throughout the house like Knex, lego, geomags and meccano that might spark some building interest and looking at how things work. So far he’s only been hugely interested in lego and building ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/09/02/engineering-in-action/ just blogging quickly as I really need to sleep but am not managing it easily. Might feel better to brain dump this!! Kids seem v. interested in wartime things at the moment. M woke up and spent a while looking through The Horrible History of the World and the ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/09/01/a-quick-one/ I normally hate bank holidays. Way too busy and so I normally end up staying home to avoid the crowds. This weekend was looking the same but then we decided on a last minute trip down south to visit Nic and Ady and kids. We left on ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/08/31/a-busy-weekend/ hmmm. seems a bit much to try and recap all of that doesn’t it? One of the main things that have happened lately is the Local Authority have got in touch with us about A. I’m expecting a letter and the request of some info after September when they ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/08/26/nearly-4-months-on/ Annual photoblog time! This was last Wednesday, we had nothing planned so just let the day unfold. Normally I worry that there won’t be anything worthy enough for the blog but actually it turned out ok. M was up first as normal and started by playing and building with ... http://thebarts.blogsome.com/2009/05/01/photo-day-2009/