I am in awe of all you fit into your lives and all that you provide for SB (and I’m sure that much again for BB). It sounds like she is having a ball

With regards the lonely 2ndry journey ~ I’m with you there! It’s not been easy to source and find stuff that works and I’m sure I have wasted a few ££ along the way on resources we will never pick up again. But I think what we have now works for us (she says hopefully). We tried the GP History and English books, but they’ve never really been a hit here. We did persist with for a good while, but have laid them down this year in favour of a slightly less prescriptive approach (deep breath in). Would it help if I did a ‘this what we’ve used and this what we use now’ kind of post? Might help you pick up something of value. Science wise you are strides ahead of us though. That’s a shame for Phoebe as she enjoys Science, but my others don’t get their heads around it terribly well and seem to dislike Biology quite vehemently, which is difficult, as it’s the only Science I really know much about (having never studied Physics or Chem’ at school past the VERY basics).

Obviously our H’Ed is a lot more home-based and table-based because it has sort of evolved that way to meet the needs of us all, but the children do still have a fairly strong say in how ‘school’ looks for them day-to-day and what resources we use, individually and as family. Also we are not heading down the exam route at all because it is completely unaffordable to us, so we will be exploring those ‘alternative routes’ you spoke of and seeing where we get to ~ hopefully that will be where the children want to go!

Of course next year I will hopefully have one son heading to college, so will have completed one ‘turn’ of 2ndry Home-Ed’ ~ that has to count for something (I hope)! I will be blogging his journey into Further Education via a non-exam route, so that might be worth following

Perhaps I’ll do that post ~ I’m sure you won’t be the only curious reader!