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Today’s activities.
Ruth and her friend started the day writing out a script. This is the longest piece of writing Ruth has ever done,4 pages long written as a proper script. They are trying to produce a filmed piece to enter into the Blue Peter competition and as such have been editing it down to make... »
Chalk, pastel and charcoal drawings
We do a regular art session once a week here. This was sparked off by Ruth wanting to doing some more arty stuff and knowing that we are more inclined to do it if we have a friend join us we do have a friend to join us. I pretty randomly choose what we... »
Even Badman couldn’t complain about today’s education!
So today is our structured day. We’ve got geometry maths group here from 11-1 and then art from 2 until we finish. the earlier part of the morning is usually taken up with cooking something for the group, reading, music practice, tidying up and nail painting. Do you know even nail paining... »
Badman and Old Bags
So the Badman thing is really getting on my nerves and causing lots of ranting from the 3 older members of this household. The very nearly teenager is even more ranty having spent the afternoon researching the home ed situation in Germany (after spending the morning doing band practice and planning meeting and a photo... »
Arts Away
Yesterday we went to see A Bag Full of Stories at Whippingham community hall. It’s as part of the Arts Away scheme that brings theatre groups to rural communities. The group we saw was Open Box Theatre Company. They told stories from a variety of places from Norway to China and... »
What are you doing today?
Warning long rambling post! So as autonomous educators we are often asked what we actually do. Our days are very free flowing and we don’t have set educational days or times, we believe that all of life is an education. So what have we been doing over the last few days: Friday Morning –... »
Lightening strike brings chaos to Newport streets – 5 year old blamed
Jonathan today decided to get creative – he ran in and declared “come and see my lightning strike I made”. Well, here it is, cleverly crafted from toy cars. »
Making an exhibition of ourselves
Today saw the launch of the Isle of Wight Learning Zone’s “Life Zones” exhibition. The pictures show Susan examining the work, Bex with Harry looking bored under one of the photographs they helped create, and Jonathan looking rather pleased with his effort. Unfortunately no pic of Ruth as my batteries died before... »