Today we had the first ever experience of kids at our high school having LIVE lessons online. At 9 am, I tried to help my son navigate round MS Teams, a zillion messages were pinging between the members of his class as they tried to figure out what they needed to do. In fact, I […]
An Obituary. Sort of.
Enforced Home-Ed today. Child no.2 had to write an ‘Obituary for King David’ in Religious Education as requested by school.It turned out that meladdo didn’t know what an obituary was. So, I spent ages explaining what it was (versus a ‘eulogy’). I shared with him some very moving obituaries of incredible, human rights activist and […]
The Archers – a Problem
I might have mentioned before that due to many years of commuting in my car (and terrible homesickness for BBC Radio 4 during the years that I lived in the Kalahari), I’ve ended up as something of an Archers addict,over the last decade. These days, The Archers obsession even runs to the home-schooling. So, here’s […]
Home-Schooling Goes Forth
Words from the Home-Schooling outhouse ; whilst studying WW1 History & the battles : “Arghh! This day is just like that Blackadder Goes Forth episode where Blackadder talks about the horrors of the war; ‘the mud, the noise of the guns and the endless poetry’…But here it’s ‘the freezing-cold, the noise of my mother yelling […]
Home Education? Or Just The Holidays?
I don’t ‘Home School’, or ‘Home Educate’ them as some call it. In fact, a few people have asked me, given our circumstances – why it is I haven’t taken this approach. Usually, after someone has whacked me really hard on the back and urged me to ‘get a hold of yourself woman’ and the […]