Home school during lockdown

Our morning starts at 9.00 with 2 25 minute lessons taking us to a 10 minute break, a pattern repeated three times over the morning giving us 3 x 50 minute chunks in which we follow Maria's existing school timetable. That means for today it is 25 minutes of Maths, 25 minutes of Science, 50 minutes of English and 50 minutes of PE.

For sake of ease, Joseph follows the same timetable despite being in Year 3 rather than Year 7. They do undertake different work though. Maria has been working through tasks provided by the school on angles, the second week on this topic. The teachers have been exemplary in setting work and marking it, providing feedback and support where required. Well done to them! Jospeh has been working on a variety of tasks linked to his times tables.

Right now they are both on Science, Maria looking at human reproduction and Joseph looking at forest habitats. They require little intervention and appear very focused at present. Much of it depends on making sure they have an interest in what they are doing. For example, the work on writing a mystery story really gripped them last week and they have been making great progress in developing characters, clues and red herrings.

For PE, Maria will be teaching Joseph and I one of her dance routines from troupers. This will also help me complete one of the 57 challenges I am working through this year, to learn a dance routine. Going to be fun.

We finish at 11.50. It will be lunch followed by a dog walk before I get the bike out for a 30 mile ride to the allotment and back. I'm going a different, longer way home as I need to get ready for the 60 mile ride later this summer. It's part of the training.