Advice please

[Amapoleon]

Hi, my daughter is in year 8 and has missed nearly a whole school year through illness. She has been doing bits of work that the school send home but I would like to try and teach her myself until she is well enough to go back to school. Where is the best place to look for schemes of work, etc? Any tips, websites, advice, help, the list is endless hahaha would be appreciated.

[morethanpotatoprints]

Hello

I H.ed atm, but am a qualified teacher but not your dds age group.
I take it that she is likely to go back to school again and with this in mind you will need to keep to the NC for ease and to make sure she doesn't have too many gaps.
First of all I would recommend staying away from sow and planning as these are so time consuming and imo not necessary unless you are accountable to others, as in a school.
Your local bookshops will have lots of workbooks, study and revision which will cover the whole of KS3 without you needing sow.
The planning I would advise would be more record keeping type of things, and just a note book should suffice for this.
For example just say you were doing fractions and you found some aspect where she hadn't really grasped the idea. You record this so you know where to go back to or where more work is needed.
If you work like this you will have more time for supporting the actual learning iyswim.
I started off with sow and lesson plans and never really needed them.
Good websites, well there are many but Bitesize is good because it actually explains where you have gone wrong and how to do particular things.
There are many listed on a thread here, I'll bump them for you.
Good luck and keep posting, there are many who will help you.

[Saracen]

You absolutely can do this, and I'd be the last person to discourage you from it!!

However (and forgive me if you have already pursued this - I don't mean to teach grandma to suck eggs!) your LA should be doing much more for your daughter than having the school send bits of work home. As soon as it became apparent that she was going to miss more than a few weeks of school, they ought to have put a plan in place for her. By this stage I would have expected them to be sending a tutor out as and when she is up to doing any work.

Some parents don't think the tutor is up to scratch, or get tired of chasing the LA to try to make them provide an education to their ill child and decide it's best to do it themselves. If this applies to you, then go for it!

But if you would rather be getting more help from the Local Authority, then just post on the Special Needs board here at mumsnet and I'm sure people will be able to tell you the best way to apply pressure on the LA to get them to fulful their legal duty to provide your daughter with an education.

[Amapoleon]

Thanks both. I am outside of the UK, which I forgot to say, so don't worry about grandma and eggs. There is some sort of scheme in place here and I will take any help that I manage to get. I think it is currently a tutor for 2 hours per week. I have only just found this out, so will try and sort this out this coming week. You are right Saracen, they should have made this information available and put something in place but there is a bit of a manana attitude here and if you don't shout , you don't get.

Morethan, I am a qualified teacher too but not for this age group or these subjects, so i'm hoping it will help. Thank you for the tips, I think your approach is far less time consuming than what I have been imagining. Haha

I will have a good look at the threads, thanks again. :)