How have you felt about this year? It has been fast, busy, tiring at times, productive, eye-opening and rewarding. And I guess exciting because I have found a love of music I didn't know I had. What have you learnt about yourself this year? I am capable of a lot if I put my mind…
Category: Autonomous Education
Project Based Learning: Individual Leonardo Da Vinci Projects
This term we are focusing on Leonardo Da Vinci. We spent most of last week looking through the resources and getting a feel for what each child might be drawn towards. After much to-ing and fro-ing topics have finally been agreed upon and the children have enthusiastically thrown themselves into their work. We have discussed…
T11’s Schedule
After much discussion, between us we have finalised his learning plans. First we looked at his own learning goals. He wants to study for his IGCSE in maths and physics early, followed by biology and chemistry. Right now he wants to study herbalism, but that is likely to change (last year was vet science, the year…
Just a pondering…
There has been much chat of late in our house about futures and what each child desires for their adulthood. As parents we have always held that childhood is the time to prepare for being an adult. It is the reason the children do chores and have school. It is the reason we don't have TV…