Norfolk Home Learning
From small beginnings to great success
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Home Education aka Homeschooling
Home education starts at birth, so if you're a mum you've tried it and you know it works. Some mums never give school a look-in. Others try school but return to home ed to restore their children's confidence and give them a happier start in life.
They certainly benefit socially, with like-minded families inviting them round to share books, music or informal lessons. They'll go on to get their GCSEs without the stress of Continuous Assessment they'd face at school. In Norwich, they can opt into grade-boosting classes run specially for them. Opting in for a few hours a week beats school captivity any day!
School captivity! To quote a mum: They dress them like convicts; then they grade them like eggs. I know how she felt! Decades ago, I quit as a teacher when clumsy labelling wounded Steven, my classroom clown.
It set me free to write my books, give my lectures and run Norfolk Home Learning, with a website for budding authors and another - this one - for caring parents. There's a welcoming mailbag and helpful pages on anxiety, tutors, teaching methods etc etc.
Dull ‘talk and chalk’ teaching kills children's interest. Consider a simple question like how you calculate a circumference from a diameter. If you tell kids the answer they’ll only forget it. Far better to grab their imagination! Show them the wizards’ 10 ft waterwheel and get them to find the circumference by throwing a stick!
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They’ll remember the fun, they’ll remember the answer and they’ll argue for hours about how this amazing method works.
Open your mind to ideas and they'll come! One mum told me how baking led to simple science, with questions like Why does dough rise? Does the weight increase? etc etc. Science can make some evil smells but with luck another family will host them! One thing is certain: far from being stuck at home, homeschooled kids just aren't stuck at school! These two got to star in a film!
If only I'd given my own three children a home education!
I did home educate my grandchildren, now at uni or beyond. I've also helped dozens - even hundreds - of local families with home ed or school, some by tutoring at my place or theirs but often just with free advice!
