Tag Archives: Secondary education

Year 7 the second time around

Posted on March 15, 2023 by ofamily

Before I got into home education I was under the mistaken impression that once I did a year with one kiddo I would cruise through repeating the same thing with the youngest (in the days when I did not really … Continue reading →

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What is the other kid doing while you do GCSE work with your oldest?

Posted on December 7, 2022 by ofamily

At the start of this academic year my daughter starting working on some of her GCSE (well we are actually doing the International GCSE’s) subjects. Now a lot of people had assumed that when we got to Secondary school (year … Continue reading →

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Posted on March 3, 2022 by ofamily

This was NOT one of the World War Two stories that I had planned on reading with the kids but we happened to stumble upon it in our local library and after just skimming the first few pages I knew … Continue reading →

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Starting Year 8 – English Literature Ideas

Posted on July 21, 2020 by ofamily

I am starting to slowly gather together the different resources that we are planning on using with our daughter for her Year 8 academic year. And as I did last year I am going to put together a post for … Continue reading →

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Plate Tectonics

Posted on May 1, 2020 by ofamily

We have been watching the documentary series – How the Earth was made – it is fascinating and often talks about Plate Tectonics and how the different plate boundaries acted to create different land forms. So I thought it was … Continue reading →

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