What bothered me is her attitude to Yr 11 and 12. According to her, these 2 years a waste of time and resources for the child and they are better off going to a TAFE centre or getting full time work. So she refused to register Pipa and handballed her to a counsellor.
The counsellor was quite helpful on the phone and promised me the world in terms of help, and I have seen nothing!
Sigh.
As for Pipa, she is keen to be educated still, so we are going ahead with lessons. I need to order a new English program as soon as I have funds and look into a new maths program for next semester. She is working part time at Hungry Jack's. Her goal is to start a TAFE course next year in business and/or food handling. She is quite bright and I feel she needs to continue with her studies as it will help her gain good study skills when she goes into tertiary education. There is loads more for her to learn, she needs to stretch her brain and see what she is capable of.
As for the others, we have been having the odd day off as I've not been well. We may work through the school hols I think. They still do their online work, but I'm having to push them to write and do their maths books. History is fun and they don't need much of a push to do that one fortunately.
We are doing History of the World and there are lots of activities to reinforce the lessons.
This is a model of the River Nile as it forms at the Delta. Not sure this one is going to work.
We have been using magnetic letters and Gretel is happily joining in with Taffy.
Taffy making up a story with some puzzle pieces.
I have introduced this great book with lots of fun ideas which all the kids are enjoying. Soon I shall add in some small skits for them to perform.
Since I started writing this post, the kids have improved greatly with their work output which is great but they may have to be pushed again when we start back in a week or two.
We will now be taking a break from school stuff as it is tax time and I need to work.
