July 2024
July was the time for goodbyes and a break but then the start of properly preparing for the 2024/25 academic year.
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GCSEs over six months, one year or two?
Social media shows a huge variety in the time people take to complete a GCSE. We've dabbled in different approaches. Here's our opinion.
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Our academic plans for 2024-25
In July, our month "off", we always make a plan for the next academic year which we start in August. Here is our plan for 2024-25.
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December 2023
We neatly finished off the academic work for 2023 ready for a lovely break over Christmas. Books were all put back in the cupboard until 2024!
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November 2023
November was half spent in sunny Spain and half back at home where we managed to fit a lot of day trips in.
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October 2023
We had our heads down this month getting through lots of academic work before spending the last week in sunny Spain.
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Home educating an extrovert when you’re anything but!
Dom and I are firmly introverts. Peggy is also an introvert. How, then, did we produce Aggie who is most definitely an extrovert?! Don’t get me wrong; we like spending time with friends and family and meeting new people BUT we always like to retreat back into our own world pretty quickly. We could happily ... Read more
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Maths: how getting everything right isn’t actually a good thing!
The girls have been finding it boring because it's too easy rather than them having a strong dislike of maths per se. What a revelation!
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September 2023
While the normies went back to school, we headed off to Rome, as well as doing a huge amount of less holiday-ish learning.
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August 2023
It was a difficult start getting back into our usual flow again after such a long break, but we eventually got back to our happy normal.
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