Post by shiningbright on May 24, 2016 10:51:52 GMT
My OH and I are working towards opening a school. I created (or rather half created lol) a curriculum for our home edcuation of our children, my oh looked at it and said 'other children should benefit from this style of education also.- and so our research and shemeing and planning (and lots of praying) began. I'm halfway through the curriculum for the school, I'm searching for funding and I'm starting to put policies and learning resources etc. (I can't just do one thing lol - I'm also making a new curriculum with booklets and resources for my husbands work where he teachs maths and English to people from Poland- new booklet every week plus related games, admin papers and PowerPoint lol)- sorry I digress (I'm good at that lol); I wanted to ask what people's thoughts would be of the school were hopingb to open (I'll follow with a brief description and will be happ y to answer any questions if presented) as i think if would be great for those struggling in main stream schools :-)
Right so here is a brief doscription of the school:
We plan to open a small alternative independent school which will offer the benefits of home education with a semi structured autonomous curriculum that is taloyred to each child and encourages individual growth before national statistics. We wouldn't have 'teachers' that direct learning, rather we would provided trained 'educational fasilitatators' to guide and encourage learners as desired and required by the learner. Our curriculum isn't based on tests or teacher assessments, rather each year the child would build a portfolio of learning through 3 targeted areas: projects, tasks and learning activities. Every term (3 terms in the year) the child would met with their parent and a member of senior staff to discuss targets, themes, strengths and weaknesses, what things interest the child, what they want to learn what they dont want to learn and why. It will be child lead and no child will be bullied. They will then agree a set of weekly targets that they are responsible for maintaining and completing. How they do this is up to them. EFs will provide set learning opportunities (activities mostly-like oi trings or cooking or whatever is requested by the learners) that child can choose to join or not. THey will have free access to a book and video library (as the videos get made that is lol), they will be able to play and explore i r sit and relax. We'll e en have a sensory area for those that need a place to unwind from time to time.
We'd have a school/class size of about 10/15 children and their term times will vary depending on the needs of their families- holidays are flexible not fixed like in schools. Well be open almost all year round.
An example of a child targets- for the first term all children will be given an 'induction' set of targets which is 1 project, 3 tasks and 5 activities per week. So that they can adapt to our learning programme and learn how to learn for themselves. All interests (unless harmful or criminal) will be supported and each child will be respected for the amazing people they are and will grow to be.
It is our philosophy that learning should be cultivated and nurtured, not drowned in information.
Right so here is a brief doscription of the school:
We plan to open a small alternative independent school which will offer the benefits of home education with a semi structured autonomous curriculum that is taloyred to each child and encourages individual growth before national statistics. We wouldn't have 'teachers' that direct learning, rather we would provided trained 'educational fasilitatators' to guide and encourage learners as desired and required by the learner. Our curriculum isn't based on tests or teacher assessments, rather each year the child would build a portfolio of learning through 3 targeted areas: projects, tasks and learning activities. Every term (3 terms in the year) the child would met with their parent and a member of senior staff to discuss targets, themes, strengths and weaknesses, what things interest the child, what they want to learn what they dont want to learn and why. It will be child lead and no child will be bullied. They will then agree a set of weekly targets that they are responsible for maintaining and completing. How they do this is up to them. EFs will provide set learning opportunities (activities mostly-like oi trings or cooking or whatever is requested by the learners) that child can choose to join or not. THey will have free access to a book and video library (as the videos get made that is lol), they will be able to play and explore i r sit and relax. We'll e en have a sensory area for those that need a place to unwind from time to time.
We'd have a school/class size of about 10/15 children and their term times will vary depending on the needs of their families- holidays are flexible not fixed like in schools. Well be open almost all year round.
An example of a child targets- for the first term all children will be given an 'induction' set of targets which is 1 project, 3 tasks and 5 activities per week. So that they can adapt to our learning programme and learn how to learn for themselves. All interests (unless harmful or criminal) will be supported and each child will be respected for the amazing people they are and will grow to be.
It is our philosophy that learning should be cultivated and nurtured, not drowned in information.