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Today, we’re chatting with Lizi, an ex primary school teacher who quit teaching and decided that she won’t be sending her daughter to school. (Unless maybe if she asks to go in the future!!)
Stay tuned for some very fascinating insight into primary schools!

Here’s a breakdown of the conversation:
01:12 - What was your experience of school as a child?
02:43 - What qualifications did you get to be able to teach?
03:33 - What got you into teaching?
05:04 - Did your dyslexia affect your teaching?
09:25 - Best and worst bits of teaching?
11:16 - How long were you a teacher?
12:00 - Thoughts on how much they can move?
12:50 - Screen time in schools
17:40 - How much time did they get outside?
19:55 - Socialisation!
25:30 - Thoughts on GCSE’s
30:18 - Ofsted experiences
34:51 - How many children are in a class?
35:16 - Why did you quit teaching and choose to home educate?
37:42 - Would you let your daughter go to school?
40:12 - Are there any elements from school you’ll incorporate into your home educating?
41:07 - Will you follow the curriculum?
42:15 - Thoughts on the children’s wellbeing and schools bill?
49:40 - What does a rough week in your home ed life look like?
54:30 - How do you non judgmentally tell others about your choice to home educate?
1:04:30 - Any tips/advice?

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Today, we’re discussing real life, or adult life and what our children REALLY need to know to thrive as adults.
We’re planning to sack of the national curriculum and write our own that we believe will provide our kids with the foundation they need when they leave home, all with space to follow their passions and hopefully one day attain the job of their dreams.
We’ll be discussing what typical days look like, what every human needs to know and how we teach these core skills.

Links mentioned in this episode:
The chemistry legend that is Big Manny 1
The Life without School Podcast - Finding Balance with Screens episode

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

Today, we're thrilled to be joined by Karen Howden, a former secondary school language teacher (whose partner was a primary school teacher!) who made the bold decision to leave her job and home educate her children. If you know someone who would love to hear this interview, please share it with them!

To connect with Karen and learn more about her home education journey, you can find her on Instagram: @thehowdenfam
Or feel free to email her at: thehowdenfam@gmail.com

Links mentioned in this episode:
Fun Science UK

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

Today’s hot topic is The “Children’s well being and schools bill”.

WARNING - This episode contains some discussion about murder that may disturb some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. If you would like to skip this part, go straight to 1:55
If you would like to know more about the case you can read about it here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr3vygvyy7o

To read the full bill go here - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-01/0151/240151.pdf
To check its current status head here - https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909

Read some summarized versions of the bill here - https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/the-childrens-wellbeing-bill-what-parents-need-to-know/
and here - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/childrens-bill-to-keep-children-safe-from-exploitation

The article referencing numbers of home educated children in Cornwall - https://hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hits/cornwall/news/rise-homeschooling-cornwall-since-pandemic/

If you’d like to learn more about the Children’s University after my quite vague explanation, go here! - https://www.childrensuniversity.co.uk

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

Today we’re discussing the UK curriculum (mostly primary curriculum) and whether we need to or even ‘should’ follow it?

Most of the information discussed today can be found on the gov.uk website here - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
To find the info on how academies work head here - https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school/academies#:~:text=Academies%20have%20more%20control%20over,it%20must%20become%20an%20academy.
To find the statistics mentioned about academies head here - https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk
To read more about the evolution of the curriculum head here - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmchilsch/344/34405.htm
To read the article about introducing computing to the curriculum head here - https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/englands-computing-curriculum-a-clash-of-values-beliefs-and-purpose
To read the article by Mr Joshua Vallance - https://mrvallanceteach.wordpress.com/2021/03/13/curriculum-what-are-we-really-talking-about/
To see the adorable video of Japanese children learning about bus etiquette head here - https://www.facebook.com/kacchalimbooindia/videos/this-is-a-courtesy-lesson-taught-to-elementary-school-children-in-japan/1577289989363419/
To hear Izzy Garbutts speech head here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKrpYo9N5hs&t=52s

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

Today we speak to author and home educating father of 3. John, who has been home educating for 19 years, has recently shared his home ed experiences in his new book “this is not a school”. We pick his brains about all things home ed, from how to deal with self doubt and anxiety around homeschooling to how to tackle those trickier subjects like algebra!

To get Johns book head over to Amazon https://amzn.eu/d/13xMnmp

Or listen on https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6956884

Head over to our instagram to see the illustration mentioned in the podcast.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️

In this episode we are interviewing an alumni of worldschooling. We'll be asking the questions on everybody's minds about how homeschooling can work to someone who has lived through it and had the same questions asked throughout her life.

The biggest thanks to Naia for agreeing to come and chat with us, it was so enjoyable talking to her and incredibly interesting to hear her experiences coming from a worldschooled background.

Find Naia on Instagram @djswagzilla

Check out her blog - https://www.skyrunninggirl.com/

Buy her book - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLG5BH2V?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_A01YZM0Q4C0NM2RCGBKN

Find Naia’s mum Julie on Instagram @wanderschooling

Or at her website https://www.wanderschool.com

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Honey, Should We Homeschool? 🎙️
In this episode we'll be chatting about some of the questions we have been asked, including topics like 'what have they learnt today?', 'do you have a schedule' and others. We figured this might be a good topic to talk about as it's likely anybody embarking on this journey will get asked these by friends and family at some point.

Time Stamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:00 - How do you measure progress when home educating?

08:45 - “What’s he learnt today?!”
18:55 - Do we have a schedule?
23:50 - How goes the socialising?
26:15 - Should he be able to read yet?
30:36 - Summary

Links mentioned in this episode:
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/helm/dev/ncc-presentation/page_four.html - this has a very helpful video of how small peoples hand grow, and they aren’t “fully developed” until they’re 14.

As always, thank you so much for tuning in!
Got a burning question?! Get in touch via email at honeyshouldwehomeschool@hotmail.com,
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