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.
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.
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.
Many home educators give up careers, two incomes and any number of other things in order to educate their children themselves, but what’s it all for? What is the purpose of education?
For use as a group discussion, as points to consider with your child/ren or on your own. The main themes running through this compare and contrast session are becoming the person you are meant to be rather than the one everyone else thinks you should be, imagination, thinking and belief.
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.
The education gap doesn’t just stop at the school gates. Home educators are feeling the impact of inequality too.
This session was put together for an 8-11 year old group, but is easily adapted to a younger audience. The material covers how scientists look at problems, disproving a theory, sharing stories & story telling, thinking about how we ‘know’ things and making a 3D dinosaur.
It has been a question many have been asking, ‘how has the parenting world taken to homeschooling?’, but no one seems to be asking, ‘how have home educators taken to lockdown learning?’
This session was created in 2016 for a business studies GCSE group. It was designed to cover content for the CAIE IGCSE Business Studies (0450) syllabus, but is also relevant for all other IGCSE and GCSE business studies courses. There is also cross over with IGCSE/GCSE economics.