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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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What’s the Point?

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • July 27, 2020July 27, 2020
  • News & Articles

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?

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KS3 Bookclub – Nation & The Neverending Story

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • July 24, 2020October 6, 2020
  • English, KS3, KS3 Bookclub, Philosophy

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.

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Economics CAIE IGCSE Revision Cards: 1&2

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • July 3, 2020September 29, 2020
  • 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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The COVID Home Education Gap

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • June 21, 2020July 27, 2020
  • News & Articles

The education gap doesn’t just stop at the school gates. Home educators are feeling the impact of inequality too.

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Mary Anning Session

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  • June 1, 2020June 1, 2020
  • English, KS2, STEM, Topic

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.

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We’re All Homeschoolers Now: How lockdown Has Affected HE Learning

  • The Cambridge Home Educator
  • May 31, 2020May 31, 2020
  • News & Articles

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?’

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IGCSE Business Studies Session 1 – Introduction to Business

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  • May 23, 2020July 4, 2020
  • Business Studies, Economics, KS4/GCSE

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.

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Stones and Stuff Booklet

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  • May 18, 2020May 18, 2020
  • Environmental Management, Geography, KS3, KS4/GCSE

This mini-booklet was created for a pre-GCSE geography group, but there is much overlap with the GCSE syllabuses. It looks at composition of the Earth, how rocks are formed, continental drift, plate tectonics, plate boundaries, and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami case study.

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Soil Booklet

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  • May 18, 2020May 18, 2020
  • Environmental Management, Geography, KS3, KS4/GCSE

This mini-booklet was created for a pre-GCSE geography group, but there is much overlap with the GCSE syllabuses. It looks at what soil is, its composition, types of soils, soil horizons, soil erosion and desertification.

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