Two of the questions parents ask me most often when they are thinking about homeschooling is: “But how am I going to teach them everything?” and How much teaching do we parents really have to do? The answer is — you probably aren’t. Homeschooling does not mean recreating a classroom at the kitchen table, with a parent standing at the front explaining every lesson. Nor does it mean handing a child a pile of worksheets on Monday morning and hoping for the best. There is a much

Summer Fun with Games! This is the fourth week of our healthy August games, and that means long days full of sunshine and play! Over the...

September is suddenly not very far away, and things are getting busy behind the scenes at Orchard Homeschooling. How are we getting ready for September? We are welcoming new families, getting our existing families ready for the new year and putting together the first weekly learning packs ready for Week 1 on 1 September. There has also been a lot of work going on with the curriculum over the summer. We have been looking carefully at what our children will be learning this yea

Summer Fun with Games! It is the third week of the summer, and we have already learnt two games; Fruit Salad and Duck, Duck, Goose. Over...

This is probably the question I am asked more than any other. "I'm not a teacher. Can I really homeschool my child?" My answer is always the same. Yes! In fact, most of the parents at Orchard are not teachers. You don't need to know everything. You don't need to stand at the front of a classroom. You don't need to recreate school at home. What you do need is a willingness to learn alongside your child. You already have the most important qualification to homeschool your chil

Summer Fun with Games! It is our second week of Healthy August, over the holidays, we’ve got five exciting games to share that will get...

Summer Fun with Games! Summer is here again, and that means long days full of sunshine and play! Over the holidays, we’ve got five...

Don’t forget to write out the Weekly Maths Problem at the top of your page, date the work and show all your workings out (even the wrong...

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This week's Mischievous Moral Mayhem is: You are on a video call with friends, and one starts saying mean things about someone else who...