Home education: Resources
Things to do during the holidays
Attend an activity or workshop
There are lots of play schemes, computer and sports camps, art and music workshops offered over the holidays.
With a lot of these, you don't have to be a pupil of a particular school even if it takes place in a school.
Make a holiday educational
If you "go on holiday" (travel away from home, camping or caravanning, staying with relations or friends etc), try to make being somewhere different educational.
For example:
- you can talk about and explore the differences between South Tyneside and the holiday location
- look at the jobs people do
- how and why the landscape is different
- how busy or quiet it is
- whether the food is different
- if people speak another language, get a phrase book and encourage your child to use at least a few simple phrases
Spend time with other children
Encourage your child to spend school-holiday time with children in the neighbourhood who go to school.
This can help them to strengthen the friendships already have and to make new friends.
Take a break
Make sure that there are some weeks in the year when you don't feel like you have to organise daily programmes of learning.
Allow your child to get bored.