Little Bears Family Homeschool

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* Curriculum * Method * Subjects *

Curriculum

Home educators are not required by law to follow the National Curriculum. The legal requirement is to provide an education *appropriate to the age, ability and aptitude of the child.*

You may find the National Curriculum a useful reference guide for your home education, however.

You can find the National Curriculum at http://www.dfee.gov.uk/nc/ You'll also find links to the NC for individual subjects from our subject pages - links below.

There are also tests which schools use in conjunction with the National Curriculum, but one of the reasons many choose home education is to avoid such tests, preferring not to use the National Curriculum as a list of tasks to attain by any certain age, but rather proceeding at a pace which the children themselves find comfortably challenging.

For more details on my view of the National Curriculum, take a look at my revised notes.

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Our Method

The method we are currently using is something of a mixture of many methods: a fairly relaxed position somewhere between "unschooling" and Charlotte Mason's "living books (quality literature) & life experiences", backed up in some areas by a more traditional, text-book approach. For more details, look at our outline of some of the popular methods of home education.

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Subjects

The following is broken down into individual subject areas, but we actually find that our "school-day" is not broken up into different lessons but merges into one; and so, in practice, our home education is turning out to be much less like a home "school" than it might appear...

Home education offers the possibility of tailoring the National Curriculum to our children individually, and so we are also aiming to cover many subjects not covered by the National Curriculum.

We have grouped the subjects we aim to cover into the following areas of learning (this is not an exhaustive list of subjects, but since these are goals, we may not achieve everything!)

* Personal, Social & Spiritual * Language & Literacy * Mathematics *
* Knowledge & Understanding of the World *
* Physical Development * Creative Development *

For details of how we intend to approach each subject, click on the individual subjects:-

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Personal, Social & Spiritual Education

1] Social Studies
2] Citizenship
3] Religious Education
4] Life Skills, including:-

(i) survival skills (ii) childcare (iii) cookery (iv) handicrafts (v) house and car maintenance (vi) money and time management
(vii) character building

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Language and Literacy

1] English
2] Foreign Languages:-

(i) Modern, including:- (a) French (b) German (c) Swedish
(ii) Classical, including:- (a) Latin (b) Greek (c) Hebrew (and (d) Old Norse)

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Mathematical

Mathematics

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Knowledge and Understanding of the World

1] Science
2] History
3] Geography
4] Information/ Communication Technology

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Physical Development

1] Sports & Games
2] Health Education

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Creative Development

1] Art and Craft
2] Music and Dance
3] Design and Technology
4] Drama

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For details of what we aim to cover in each of the subject areas, take a look at our Long-term Objectives and our Long-term Objectives by Subject as well as our Short-term Goals and for information about how we intend to approach the subjects, click on the subject links above.

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Update: 08 November, 2000