Annie Howie
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| Local Authority | Hertfordshire |
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| Still active | Yes |
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| Experience of HE | No known experience of personally home educating a child. |
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Reviews
| Date submitted: | Mon 8th March 2010 |
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I Home Ed in Herts too, but prefer to send in reports rather than have visits.
There was an extreme amount of information collected on us in 2006/7, since an ex headteacher of one of my sons, and my ex husband (my children's father) objected to them being Home Edded, resulting in a court case. Included was a visit where myself and my children met with another Herts EHE adviser Anthea Rawcliffe, and special needs adviser Margaret Davies, as well as a specialist report on our Home Ed with specialist educational psychologist Dr. Paula Rothermel, and we passed everything with flying colours.
Despite all this, when I declared that I would be submitting a report only in 2008 (as is my legal right), after I had had enough after 3 attempts to meet with LEA officials had been thwarted by them not turning up, Anne Howie sent me a threatening letter mentioning the possibility of a School Attendance Order. She only backed off when I got a solicitor to write her a letter stating the legal position. Since then, I have sent in annual reports to Margaret Davies, and everything has been fine. Last year Margaret Davies said that she would ask if she required more info this year, and I haven't heard from her yet. So, Ms Howie seems fine if you're happy to accept visits, but beware if you wish to exercise your legal right to send in reports. |
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| Date submitted: | Tue 2nd March 2010 |
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Anne Howie for Hertfordshire visited us in December 07 our first and only visit since we started home educating in 2004. She was very enthusiastic and encouraging of home education. She gave me a very good report without any recommendations for both my children. My children were relaxed and confident in her presence and happy to show her some work. She looked at my eldests written work and very briefly listened to my youngest read and tested his knowledge of times tables (one easy multiplication). She was pleased that they had lots of resources at their desposal, work had been dated and filed (only because I like to be organised where I can) and we had photographs of our participation in activities, visits and workshops. She could see that they'd progressed as we had work from previous years. She was also pleased that they did plenty of physical activity, had visits to museums, theatres and historical places of interest. We don't have a timetable, although we do some regular activities, and are flexible in our approach. However, we have gradually done more academic work as the children have gotten older and this was evident. She noticed their art work all over the kitchen. When she visited, DS was playing on the playstation and DD was preparing to make mince pies and we were about to visit Lapland and were planning an extended holiday (2 months) in Spain:>) The visit was very relaxed and much of what she refered to in her report was taken from a report (more like a diary of the many wonderful things we'd done and places we'd visited, that and previous years) I had prepared in advance for her (because I wanted to show off too). I haven't had a return visit but do submit reports of what we've done which include brief notes of anything we might have planned for the coming year.
My youngest (11) is starting secondary school (year 7) this September and my eldest (13) wants to continue with home education and GCSE's. |
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