Category Archives: Business

February 1, 2011

Home ed in bed

Plus work. And now blog. How many boxes have I ticked there? (Four. Five if you include: feet on hot water bottle )

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Filed under Business, Co-operating, Curiosity - a delicate flower, Planning - or not, Writing

January 27, 2011

On GCSEs

My sons (aged 20 and 21) have no GCSEs: they decided several years ago not to take them, because they wanted to carry on with their self-directed learning and the GCSE curriculum didn’t encompass the skills they has chosen to … Continue reading →

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Filed under Business, Co-operating, Innate, Natural learning - how it works

January 4, 2010

Learning last year

In and amongst the new year celebrations here, I’ve been thinking and chatting with the children about what we all learned last year. It’s probably quite easy for me to list some of the skills that some of us mastered: … Continue reading →

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Filed under Business, Co-operating, Driving, ICT, Innate, Numbers, Reading, Russian

April 7, 2009

This week, we’ve been mostly…

Learning how to drive: This is going really well, mainly because Zara so passionately wants to learn. She isn’t quite 17 yet, so we’re still learning off-road but luckily there are plenty such areas around here in which to practice. … Continue reading →

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Filed under Business, Driving, ICT, Innate, Russian