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if i was you dont bother

my friend did it and it put him behind massivle and now he is behind 2 whole years int he long run its a waste of time

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if i was you dont bother

my friend did it and it put him behind massivle and now he is behind 2 whole years int he long run its a waste of time

 

That surprises me immensely as all the research shows that home educated children are usually way ahead of their schooled peers.

 

Who is measuring this child's progress, and against which scale? Have they measured his confidence and self worth as well as his academic progress?

 

Did his mum join any home education groups and go to all the activities on offer? I would have thought that it would be really difficult to keep a child back from learning unless they kept him alone and didn't offer him any learning resources, and why would any parent do that?

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hi i have just come across this and read some off the things u do with your children while home educated i didnt no anybody could do it my son is 12 and i mite have done this with my son but 2 late now hes just started notre dame high and he loves it plus hes top in all he does at the min dont no if he will keep it up hope so, i love to read how other parents wor together with their kids i do a lot off 1 to1 with him still.when he was young i did alot with him before he start school he could read and write before he was 4 then at first the school seemed to hold him back, but we are pass that now look fore to reading more

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To Sheffield Home Educators.

 

My name is Dr. Michael Diprose and I am trying to contact The Sheffield Home Educators Group regarding Science Week 2010.

 

On behalf of the Institution of Engineering Technology (formerly the IEE), for Science Week, I am running a series of one day workshops at the aircraft museum at Doncaster Aeroventure, entitled 'How Aeroplanes Fly'. The Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Science Week are already booked for primary schools, but the Saturday, the 20th March is open to families.

 

The event starts at around 10.00 and goes on until about 15.00/15.30. It is free, but participants have to provide their own lunches. There is space for about 30/35 children plus their parents. It is suitable for an age range of around 7/8 to about 11/12

 

The day is concerned with learning how aeroplanes fly, through talks, demonstrations and experiments for children to do. They come away with a balloon helicopter and a glider which they have assembled during the day. The topics include how wings work, how engines work, and an experiment on how best to launch a rocket, which involves measurements. There are question trails involving exhibits in the museum and what has been learned.

 

Several years ago, Home Educator groups attended the workshops and said they enjoyed them. I have not run them for several years but am doing so this year. I have lost contact with the person who I dealt with then, so am trying this forum.

 

For further details please contact me at;

 

mike.diprose@spectrum-tec.co.uk

 

It is free, but I will need to know who is coming for numbers. Please pass on this message to Doncaster/Rotherham Home Educators or please e-mail me a contact. Thank you.

 

Mike Diprose (CRB cleared)

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To Sheffield Home Educators.

 

My name is Dr. Michael Diprose and I am trying to contact The Sheffield Home Educators Group regarding Science Week 2010.

 

On behalf of the Institution of Engineering Technology (formerly the IEE), for Science Week, I am running a series of one day workshops at the aircraft museum at Doncaster Aeroventure, entitled 'How Aeroplanes Fly'. The Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Science Week are already booked for primary schools, but the Saturday, the 20th March is open to families.

 

The event starts at around 10.00 and goes on until about 15.00/15.30. It is free, but participants have to provide their own lunches. There is space for about 30/35 children plus their parents. It is suitable for an age range of around 7/8 to about 11/12

 

The day is concerned with learning how aeroplanes fly, through talks, demonstrations and experiments for children to do. They come away with a balloon helicopter and a glider which they have assembled during the day. The topics include how wings work, how engines work, and an experiment on how best to launch a rocket, which involves measurements. There are question trails involving exhibits in the museum and what has been learned.

 

Several years ago, Home Educator groups attended the workshops and said they enjoyed them. I have not run them for several years but am doing so this year. I have lost contact with the person who I dealt with then, so am trying this forum.

 

For further details please contact me at;

 

mike.diprose@spectrum-tec.co.uk

 

It is free, but I will need to know who is coming for numbers. Please pass on this message to Doncaster/Rotherham Home Educators or please e-mail me a contact. Thank you.

 

Mike Diprose (CRB cleared)

 

This sounds very interesting, I will pass it on to the Sheffield and Doncaster groups, thanks.

Edited by hennypenny
noticed the dates were already on the message

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Hi, I am really interested in home education for my children and would like to know if there are any groups around the south Sheffield area or any parents in this sort of area who also home educate? I have been reading up on home education and I am quite impressed with it. My son just finished at his infant school last year and we also moved house so he had to start at a new junior school separate to his friends back in September. The new school has quite a good reputation but it has let me down on so many levels and my youngest child is due to start there soon but I am not wanting him to go there at all and would prefer to home educate them both. I am from North American and my husband was raised in the U.K., I find the education system here to be quite different to how it was when I grew up (like the fact that children start school so early here). My family is quite culturally diverse and the school that my son currently attends has no other children from diverse families. I never thought that this would be a problem in this day and age, but we have been exposed to some racist remarks from other children at the school and their parents have also made some inappropriate comments. My son has been subjected to bullying by children there as well and I don't want to have to move him into another school only for it to be an issue again. He is a very sensitive child and the thought of starting new at another school is quite upsetting to him but I feel that I do not want my child to continue on at his current school. Please if any one can help me out with information regarding home education and what groups there are to join as well for the socializing aspect please can you reply. Thank you!

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Hi Flower

 

I think most of the activities tend to be in the south of Sheffield, so you should be ok :)

 

The biggest meeting is at Highfields Adventure Playground on Tuesdays 12-3pm in term time, if you come along to one of those you will soon meet lots of others in your area.

 

Other activities running each week at the moment are skating, swimming and trampolining, plus there is usually some visit out each week - for instance the group went to Chester to the Anne Frank exhibition last Monday. There are also a couple of under 8's activities each week, I don't have details for those as mine are all older, but someone at the group would know.

 

For legalities you are best checking out http://www.education-otherwise.org

 

If you have any more questions please ask, and I will try to answer.

 

I have been home educating for 24 years now, and never regretted a minute :)

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Hi Hennypenny, thank you for replying! I am glad to see that there are groups in and around the Sheffield area and that they do get together. I am quite convinced that home education is something that I would like to do for my children but for now my eldest attends our local junior school and I have not yet registered my 3 year old for nursery. I would prefer to home educate them both as we aren't 100% sure we are staying in this village and I know starting a new school might cause them both upset, but my husband isn't 100% sure he likes the idea of home education. I have been trying to show him all about it with articles etc., but he thinks that our two children would feel they aren't socialising enough. Hopefully I can convince him that home education opens up loads of opportunities for socialising and is better than forcing them into a school where they aren't happy and are being bullied. As for further questions I am interested in finding out more about the curriculum that most parents use, do you find they follow the national curriculum closely? What kind of resources are available for free to parents who choose to home educate their children? I've read up on the education-otherwise website that in order to take my eldest out of state school I would need to write a letter to his head teacher informing her that we wish to home educate and would like to with draw his name from the register, do you find that once this is done that the local education authority then starts harassing parents as to why they aren't sending their child to public school or are they quite understanding and supportive of a parent's choice to home educate? Thank you!

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Hi Hennypenny, thank you for replying! I am glad to see that there are groups in and around the Sheffield area and that they do get together. I am quite convinced that home education is something that I would like to do for my children but for now my eldest attends our local junior school and I have not yet registered my 3 year old for nursery. I would prefer to home educate them both as we aren't 100% sure we are staying in this village and I know starting a new school might cause them both upset, but my husband isn't 100% sure he likes the idea of home education. I have been trying to show him all about it with articles etc., but he thinks that our two children would feel they aren't socialising enough. Hopefully I can convince him that home education opens up loads of opportunities for socialising and is better than forcing them into a school where they aren't happy and are being bullied. As for further questions I am interested in finding out more about the curriculum that most parents use, do you find they follow the national curriculum closely? What kind of resources are available for free to parents who choose to home educate their children? I've read up on the education-otherwise website that in order to take my eldest out of state school I would need to write a letter to his head teacher informing her that we wish to home educate and would like to with draw his name from the register, do you find that once this is done that the local education authority then starts harassing parents as to why they aren't sending their child to public school or are they quite understanding and supportive of a parent's choice to home educate? Thank you!

 

It always makes me laugh when people talk about socialisation - I always say that must be a real worry for those whose children go to school! Shut up all day with 30 others the same age and being told to shut up as they are not there to socialise - lol.

 

I don't worry about home educated children socialising because they aren't shut away, they can talk to anyone they meet regularly without having to ask permission. They are not limited to being friends with one age group - my daughter has friends ranging from 4 to 80! With the amount of activities run by the local home ed group it would be difficult to stop them socialising. Yesterday for instance we started the first of 8 sessions at the Hillsborough leisure centre, 40+ children attended, then were free to play in the swimming baths afterwards with no time limit, no having to pack up just when they were in the middle of a game because it was home time :) There is some activity every day, socialisation is very unlikely to be an issue.

 

I have never used a curriculum myself, preferring not to be limited in that fashion :)

 

There are school in a box type curriculums available at a price. Some people do use them, and there are email lists for every taste, you may be interested in joining one for structured home educators, or you may prefer to investigate autonomous (child led or "unschooling") learning and go that way instead as we have done.

 

I haven't had visits for quite a long time, after the first 10 years they decided we knew what we were doing and left us alone, but I haven't had any awful reports of them being rough on new home educators.

 

There are a lot of people doing the same as you at the moment and deciding not to send their children to school at all, so there are also several pre-no-school groups that you might like to visit to meet up with others in the same situation.

 

This is one:-

 

FREE RANGE PLAYGROUP

 

Thursdays

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Abbeydale, Sheffield, S7

Home Ed Informal group for families with young children

The group is held in the large hall at the back of the church, there is car parking at the top of the drive or bus route 97 or 97a stops opposite.

£1.50 (50p per extra child over 6months)

Lots of play equipment for under 6's some activities for older siblings. Snacks and drinks provided

Large hall with quiet room

(In addition once a month there will be a breastfeeding group in here starting 10th Sept 09)

For more details contact thebeadoir@hotmail.com

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im considering home ed for my eldest, hes has a range of issues, asd, severe dyslexia and is basically some where in between with ability. He is currently in an intergrated resource, basically they are struggling to meet his dyslexic needs, as they are autism focussed, not a broad range of sen, but the problem is that they also feel he is too able for special school, so that basically neither school meets his needs. He hates being away from home, he has no friends, and not much of a social life as school dictates much if not all of his time, as the transport bus puts another hour on his school day.

 

Just wondered how many parents of children with significant needs were homeschooling and what sort of education profile they followed, what resources they felt they were able to access more because they were at home and not school?

 

thanks for any input

emma

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im considering home ed for my eldest, hes has a range of issues, asd, severe dyslexia and is basically some where in between with ability. He is currently in an intergrated resource, basically they are struggling to meet his dyslexic needs, as they are autism focussed, not a broad range of sen, but the problem is that they also feel he is too able for special school, so that basically neither school meets his needs. He hates being away from home, he has no friends, and not much of a social life as school dictates much if not all of his time, as the transport bus puts another hour on his school day.

 

Just wondered how many parents of children with significant needs were homeschooling and what sort of education profile they followed, what resources they felt they were able to access more because they were at home and not school?

 

thanks for any input

emma

 

There are a *lot* of children with special needs being home educated, probably because these are the children who school lets down most often.

 

In my experience parents with children with ASD tend to follow more structured programmes as that is what their children often prefer. More child led programmes can leave the child feeling lost and insecure, so most families settle into a semi structured routine.

 

We are very lucky here in Sheffield to have an experienced home educator qualified in teaching dyslexics who has a very good success rate. A good deal of the local group take their children to her for private tuition.

 

I have found ASD children often prefer to meet up with friends on a one to one basis rather than joining in with the group, as they find the noise and activity of a large group slightly overwhelming sometimes. As there are so many children in the local group this is not usually a problem, there is usually someone near they can contact to meet up with on an individual basis. They can also access all the other activities as they want to. Currently we have a dancing session each week, there are also social, trampolining and swimming sessions each week, and also regular skating and tennis sessions. We work with the countryside rangers once per month on a nature reserve too. There are regular visits out to various museums and educational centres, and any parent can tailor a visit around their own child's particular interest and be sure that others would come along.

 

I don't myself have experience of home educating a child with ASD or dyslexia, although my daughter does have ME so I do know some of the limitations of home educating a child with special needs. I hope someone will come along and answer who is home educating a child with ASD and dyslexia - there are several in the local group.

 

There is also a national yahoo email list for parents home educating children with special needs. You may find their web site helpful

 

http://www.he-special.org.uk/

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