today the girls took their entries to the village fete whilst i went to work, and then pootled around, sb doing some recorder and reading, and bb just pootling really. when i returned, sb made me eggy bread all by herself [including the hobs] and it was delish.
we then mosied down to the village hall, and were greeted with congratulations, so it was clear the girls were going to be happy. and the gods of equality were also shining, as SB got first prize for her decorated cakes, and third prize for her recycling poster, and BB got first prize for the colour in the frog picture and third prize for her recycling poster. woohoo us! obviously they wondered why there other things didn’t win 
but were pretty happy. i loved some of the other classes entries, and will def try and make and keep some jam/jelly and a chutney for next year! with the giving out of prizes there was another surprise, SB won best of cookery/baking classes – apparently first time a child has won. SHe got an enormous marie claire cookery book. SHe was most happy and impressed, tho the compere looked worried.
we had a home ed discussion with someone there, who was interested and not overtly anti. and she asked sb whether it was good to have 1:1 teaching. sb responded that we just give her things to do so that we can get on with other things so really not looking forward to her first interview without us!! honestly, readers of the blog, does that really seem the way we do things?
back home, and sb decided she wanted to make yorkshire puds from the recipe book, and therefore made a roast dinner [with a bit of help] and we were all happy. we had bb biscuits and generous helpings of fresh picked strawbs for pud. fantastic!
todays more stressful events were that aunty m arrived at little nanny to find her v confused, prob hadn’t been to bed and def unwell. gp out and ? infection so aunty m told to nurse at home. a few phone calls between us, and a trip then to a and e. if i wasn’t on duty would have gone too. but now little nanny in hosp in the pretty unwell end of the spectrum. mum now there 2. aargh for needing to be in loads of places at once, because i really can’t get there for a week. i think that will be 2 late. obviously not sending john lewis flowers…
Oh yes I’m quite sure you just thrust activities at your children so that you can get on with things!!!!! How can she say that?!! We’ll have to start coaching our children on the interview process nearly as much as schools coach children on passing SATS! pmsl.
Sorry to hear about Little Nanny, hope you can get to see her really soon.
I’ve been thinking that i’ll have to do exactly that, coaching my children to pass an interview. And i will do it – and it will stress them out and make them anxious, but this is going to be part of them taking responsibility for their life i suppose.
In some respects, i think it will be similar to the complications of the “do you want school/don’t you want school” thing we experienced with Fran; it is going to be difficult, stressful and we won’t really know what is going on in their heads about it or what others will see. Or whether they’ll ‘pass’.
Joy.
And as for SB – !!!!!!!!!!!!
“we just give her things to do so that we can get on with other things”
Is this wrong? I exert a great deal of effort in trying to achieve this.
“we just give her things to do so that we can get on with other things”
Just like teachers in school then!
pmsl!
fabulous news on the village prizes
Sorry about Little Nanny and really hope you get to see her really soon xxxx
Sorry to hear about Little Nanny (big hugs).
Huge congratulations to the girls on their prizes – very proud moment for you all.
On the quote thing – this is exactly what is worrying me about the potential one-on-one interview thing. Children (and me too at times) can come out with things quite innocently and open a can of worms. We were talking just this evening on instructing out two on the best responses etc. I must admit I have been known to do just what sb talked about and I’m not ashamed at all. It’s helping to make my children concentrate on their own and produce their own work with their own ideas etc. When they need help they’ll ask and this, in my opinion, is all about progress in their education as it’s a skill they’ll need when they get into senior school.