Our Home Ed Storie

In a previous blog, I wrote about some issue we had been having with our son. By the start of 2022 with the help of a family support worker, we got our son’s temper under control. We started working on little projects week by week, for these I used a company called Pawprint Badges. We would work towards earning a badge in a week. Each project we had English, maths, science, cooking, geography, history tied in. We all started enjoying Home Ed again. A few of the project we did were Martin Luther King Jr, Burns Night, Chinese New Year, Mother’s Day, Easter. The list goes on. These Pawprint Badges are amazing, and we still use them now. Not as often as we did but more for long term projects rather than short term.  At the end of the 2021 our son had asked to raise some money after he did a Charity run with his Cubs group for a Christmas fundraiser, at the time we didn't know what he could do and who for. When the war started in Ukraine, we decided it would be a good time...

At the start of 2021, things started taking a dramatic change. The routine we had in place wasn't working anymore, I had to change how we did things. This is something I have done many times over the past couple of years. Sometimes a routine will work for a few weeks and then other times a routine will work for a few months. This is one of the joys with Home Ed, you have the freedom to change it up to suit your children's current needs. You are all in control, you're not told how your child is going to learn even if it doesn't suit their needs. No child is the same, I have found all three of my children learn completely differently to the other.  Not long into 2021 it became so clear that our children really hated workbooks, I had changed workbooks to a different brand to see if this made a difference, it did for a little while. To be honest I would hate having them put in front of me all the time too. We decided to take a step back and try '...

When we started our official journey in Home educating our children after the summer in 2020. We started off with working to an outdoors national curriculum, These are wonderful curriculum but it just wasn't right for our family.  I think we did a week’s worth before we decided it wasn't for us.  We took our first holiday once everyone was back at school after the summer holiday. Our eldest wanted to go to the Jurassic Coast, so we booked a camping trip in Weymouth. It was beautiful, we went fossil hunting, walked around local museums, explored Weymouth, and surrounding areas.  The children started a holiday journal, and we started a tradition of our holiday bear (our version of the school weekend bear)  We still made time for some book work.    Our son went back to his English tutor who he used to see whilst he was in school. He really enjoyed going for his 1 to 1 session’s and came on leaps and bounds....

Hi, we're the Stories and we have been home educating our children officially since September 2020.  Thank you for taking your time to read. I hope you enjoy following our home Ed 'Storie'.  Back in 2020 when the world was turned upside down by Covid, I jumped in headfirst with teaching my children. Along with every family across the world, our children were now to suddenly learn from home. We hadn't had any communication from the school on how this was going to happen or what work they were meant to be doing. So instead, I made my own work for them. Spent hours searching online for worksheets and fun educational activities for them to do at home. We didn't have ink for our printer at the time (ink was out of stock everywhere!) so I ended up spending hours every evening drawing out the worksheets I found or making up my own. This worked well and my children loved it. Over the course of the lockdown our learning evolved and took on more than just worksheets fo...