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Home Education Key Stage 3 Correspondence Courses (11-14)
Key Stage 3 Courses (11-14)
Parents come to home education by many different routes. For some, their moral/religious/ethical/social beliefs mean that school was never a serious option. For others, illness, injury, bullying, geographical location, lack of acceptable schools or a host of other reasons have led them to consider home education.
As a home educator, you have great freedom. You are not tied to a timetable; you are free to choose what you teach and how you teach it. But you do have a responsibility to provide an adequate and appropriate education suitable to the age, ability and apptitude of each child.
For the majority of home educators, it is also true that, whilst they may not be happy with the way subjects are taught in school, they do, nevertheless, wish their children to master the rudiments of core subjects like English, Maths and Science. In our Key Stage 3 packs, we therefore follow National Curriculum so that you can:
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Feel assured that your child is covering the same learning as in school, except at their own pace.
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Ensure that you are paving the way for a smooth transition between Key Stage 3 (11-14) and Key Stage 4 (14-16) when your child may wish to work towards formal qualifications. Most GCSE courses will assume basic numeracy and literacy skills.
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Feel confident that, should for any reason your child start or return to school or college, s/he will be up to date.
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Feel secure that you are able to demonstrate to your Local Education Authority that you are providing a suitable and adequate alternative to school.
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Enable your child to proceed to (I)GCSE courses that will provide them with access to further education or employment opportunities.
Whilst some argue that it should not be necessary to 'prove' that you are providing an adequate education, many find, in practice, it saves a lot of time, stress and trouble to show that you are simply covering a structured, National Curriculum-based course.
We have aimed to keep our courses affordable and suitable for parents without specialist knowledge or facilities. Our packs are down-to-earth guides for those seeking to cover a school type curriculum at home. They are specifically geared to the language levels and interests of children - not courses written for adults made available to children.
Because all our courses are marked 'in house', we are able to build a picture of what each child is achieving. When, for instance, your child reaches the end of Key Stage 3, we are therefore, like an old-fashioned class teacher, able to offer advice about choice of IGCSE subjects and levels.
What's Included?
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Student File - containing Instructions, 10 assignments for sending to the school for marking and a complete SATs test. The student file covers all the main learning topics of level 5 - writing, reading and listening. A recommended reading list is also included to provide guidance in this area.
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Spellings Kit - a pack of weekly spellings for children who find this topic difficult. The kit includes exercises, chart and CD.
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Textbook - This covers the basics of grammar, punctuation and more spellings and is intended to give extra practise on a weekly basis.
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CD of listening excerpts - This accompanies the student file and includes excerpts to be listened to in conjunction with certain tasks.
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Student Study Planner
Each Key Stage 3 pack includes the learning a child would be expected to cover in a year at school. Our English 11-12 course aims to teach National Curriculum level 5 skills; 12-13 level 6 skills and 13-14 level 7 skills. The same is true of our Maths and Science courses. Each pack contains a student file, textbook, study planner, tutor marked assignments and a final SATs equivalent test so that you can assess your progress at the end of each course. Courses can be started at any point during the year and completed at your own speed.
If you have any queries whilst working through your course, these can be included when sending in your assignment. Do not worry if you cannot always answer questions. The questions are designed to check your understanding of the learning points and where misunderstandings have developed, your tutor will send you further help-sheets to assist you.
Each of our courses is uniquely geared to the requirements of the subject. The tutor marked assignments enable us to offer a personalised service and provide constructive feedback helping the individual child progress.
What we cannot do in a pack is provide the day-to-day encouragement, support and interest that a child needs. Only you, the home educator, can provide this. This is why we consider our packs a co-operative venture between home and school, allowing children to achieve academic progress without sacrifice of other, often more fundamental, principles, be they social, health, moral or religious.
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