Year 7 Autumn term goals

This terms goals:-

Note - We do part time online school with Briteschool.co.uk. Primary, Maths, English and Humanities + Junior (KS3) Science. Homework is set by the school, and this keeps us roughly in line with the NC. So these goals cover those targets for non-online school days only.

Academic - Core

Complete headsprout early reader programme. - 1/2 term
Evan-more Grade 1 Daily Literacy programme. - Xmas
Select a new online maths programme for daily practice.
Future Learn Basic science experiments course. (MOOC)
Create a youtube channel to record science experiments
Redo Theodorescu's "write from the start" handwriting programme by Xmas.

This year we are using Evan-Moor to support Literacy, Numeracy and Geography.

Project Work 

- ongoing all year, it'll take as long as it takes lol!

DT 

- Electronics Wizard Apprenticeship - a year long Course.

Geography

 -  2 year long open-ended autonomous projects planned.

Farming - 

We are using resources from the Grainchain.com to learn about farming grains (we did livestock and chickens last year). We have a world breakfast every Monday from a different nation on our world map to discuss healthy eating, diet, cultural differences and to familiarise Marcus with the world map.

Europe - 
To tie in with beginning French with briteschool we are using The Evan-Moor Europe, Grades 3-6 textbook as a starting point for an open-ended project on Europe. It will be interesting to see where this takes us!

Social
Find 2 weekly group social activities as the Friday Rhos group we enjoyed so much has now closed. We are going to try the Community Farm and The Porthcawl  & Carmarthen Home ed groups to begin with.

Fun
Swimming - we intend to go swimming 2x weekly.
Learn to ride a bike with stabilisers.
New puppy? The hunt is on for a new pup to take to obedience and then agility classes.

Mum is going to do the following coursera.org  MOOCS - "digital story telling" and "difficulties in literacy" in order to support M. She is also going to start to research touch typing learning options for M to start after Xmas.