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Month: August 2020

We Need To Talk About Gavin

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • August 26, 2020January 1, 2021
  • News & Articles

20,000 students still having no grade at all after this summer’s cancelled exams. Many of whom are home educated. A case of ministerial incompetence or deliberate neglect of a minority group? Either way, we need to talk about Gavin. 20,000 students still having no grade at all after this summer’s […]

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Economics CAIE IGCSE Revision Cards: 3&4

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • August 13, 2020September 29, 2020
  • Business Studies, Economics, KS4/GCSE

These cards have been put together to help support learning for the CAIE IGCSE economics exam, but economics being what it is, they will also support all other IGCSE and GCSE economics syllabuses.

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Brexit Timeline

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • August 9, 2020August 9, 2020
  • Current Affairs, History

This session timelines the UK’s political relationship with Europe from 1945 to just after Boris Johnson prorogued Parliament (Sept 2019). There is a little student interaction, but it does require a session leader who has a fair knowledge of UK politics.

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Creative Writing: Flash Fiction 3

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • August 9, 2020August 9, 2020
  • English, KS3

Written for a KS3 English group, but can be easily adapted for older and aspects taken for younger students. Can be used as a stand-alone session looking at last lines and editing stories, broken up into two sessions or as the third part of a series on short short stories.

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Creative Writing: Flash Fiction 2

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • August 8, 2020August 9, 2020
  • English, KS3, KS4/GCSE

Written for a KS3 English group, but can easily be adapted for older students and aspects used for younger children. Minus the final activity, it can be used as a stand-alone session, looking at the opening line of stories, but is also the second part of three 1.5 hr sessions.

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Creative Writing: Flash Fiction 1

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • August 8, 2020August 9, 2020
  • Arts, English, KS3

Written for a KS3 English group, but can be easily adapted for any age. Can be used as a stand-alone session giving an introduction to flash fiction (short short stories) with or without the exercise, but was originally intended to be the first of three 1.5 hr sessions.

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