National and Local Organisations for parents who choose to educate their children at home:
Education Otherwise
Web. http://www.education-otherwise.net
Tel. 0870 730 0074
Home Education Advisory Service
Web. www.heas.org.uk
Tel. 01707 371854
HE-AL – a local home education group for those in the Leicestershire area
Web: http://he-al.weebly.com
Contacts:
North Leicester - Maire Stafford: mairestafford@gmail.com
South Leicestershire - Ceri Sell: cezzle@yahoo.co.uk
Syston - Vikki: systonhe@gmail.com
Resources for Parents educating children at home:
Information on the National Curriculum:
Web. http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk
The Department for Education is conducting a review of the primary and secondary National Curriculum. The National Curriculum website contains the statutory programmes of study for National Curriculum subjects which maintained schools must follow until a new curriculum is in place.
Resources for the Early Years Foundation Stage:
Note that the National Strategies website TNS Online (NSO), closed on Tuesday 28 June 2011; the contents of this site have been copied to the National Archives where they will remain accessible through the link above.
Primary Framework
Note that the National Strategies website TNS Online (NSO), closed on Tuesday 28 June 2011; the contents of this site have been copied to the National Archives where they will remain accessible through the link above.
Secondary Framework
Note that the National Strategies website TNS Online (NSO), closed on Tuesday 28 June 2011; the contents of this site have been copied to the National Archives where they will remain accessible through the link above.
Times Educational Supplement (TES) Teaching Resources
Web. http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/
BBC Teaching Resources
Web. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/
Collins Education Free Resources
Web. http://www.collinseducation.com/Pages/default.aspx
This website allows you to download samples from Collins publications related to National Curriculum.
OneStopEnglish
Web. http://www.onestopenglish.com/
Onestopenglish is a teachers' resource site published by Macmillan English Campus, part of the Macmillan Education Group.
Association of Teachers of Mathematics
Web. http://www.atm.org.uk/welcome/home-educator.html
The website contains free resources for home educators and access to range of resources to support mathematics teaching.
Mathletics
Web. http://www.mathletics.co.uk/
Matheletics is a programme to support the teaching of maths through all the key stages. Free to view are ideas for topics in each curriculum year.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Web. http://www.rsc.org/Education/Teachers/
The website contains resources for science teachers, including primary and secondary, with a number of free online resources and some books which are available to download as PDF documents.
National Gallery
Web. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries. As well as browsing the collections online, there is a children’s gallery showcasing work inspired by the National Gallery and courses and resources for teachers.
British Museum
Web. http://www.britishmuseum.org/
The British Museum documents the story of human culture from its beginning to the present through some of the largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities, prints, drawings and books in the world. The website provides online access to collections and hosts a large range of resources aimed at teachers and students.
Recommendations from parents
In addition, the following additional websites have been recommended by a Leicester family educating their children at home.
Sites for children
www.educationcity.com
www.khanacademy.org
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer
www.coolmath-games.com
www.englishmonarchs.co.uk
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk
www.kidzui.com
Sites for parents
www.netmums.com – there is an online Home Education Club
www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com
www.topmarks.co.uk
www.emaths.co.uk – It has free SATs papers for Parents to use.
www.superchargedscience.com
Health Information
A useful vaccination wall planner can be created and downloaded from:
http://www.nhs.uk/Planners/vaccinations/Pages/aboutvaccinationhub.aspx
Information on eye and hearing tests for children can be accessed at:
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Hearing-and-vision-tests-for-children/Pages/Introduction.aspx
