This is Maddy’s Rubber Band-jo (her name for it). She made it today, when a couple of pieces of stuff that came to hand tweaked her interest and inclined her to try something out. First she put bands on a the box and came to show me that some of them made an approximation of [...]
In a curious twist of fate and in a moment of data loss that will no doubt be of extreme concern to Mr Ed Balls MP and the DCSF themselves, these Guidelines For Local Authorities on Elective Home Education, have gone missing from the DCSF website.
This is a strange thing; these guidelines were thrashed out [...]
The weekend went by in a flurry; Saturday the children all started KYT (which means i now have those letters earworming in my head to the SKC tune) and pronounced it a great success, so that pleased us all. Amelie and i had a lovely couple of hours in town today, if you ignore the [...]
Can’t say I can entirely imagine actually using this. But you never know! At least you will know when I have done as, along with random smatterings of iPhone replacement words, it will also have capitalised letter I ’s!!!
We’ve recently had the pleasure of uncovering some old friends who have wiggled back into our life through the best of routes Zoe and i were friends in an old life of mine and then we lost touch somewhere in the scrum of having young children et etc. Recently she got back in [...]
Fran and i have been learning equations this last few weeks. I never liked equations; as a child, i struggled to see use for much of what i learned in maths and because i couldn’t see why or how to use them in real life, i didn’t really learn how they were working or why [...]
An odd way round to do it
Even if you don’t agree with Home Educating and you think my children deserve better than to be locked up at home all day, please read this then read this letter and then ask yourself if scrabbling for evidence after the event smacks a little of the [...]
