I'm feeling a bit nervous today.......
Isaac will be taking his very first exam in a few hours and it's giving me
butterflies in my stomach almost as much as if it were me having to sit in a big room
with lots of other kids and write an exam paper for two hours.......
that was my worst nightmare whilst I was at school...... exams......
Brian doesn't give a second thought to doing an exam, he just gets on with it, but me......
I weep and wail and gnash my teeth....... and then I still have to do it......
needless to say, I didn't stay long in 'formal' education, I found it too difficult to write essays
and sit exams so I opted for the 'life is an education' route and I have thoroughly enjoyed learning
along the way, especially in these last 15 years of being a full-time, home-edding mumma
and joining in with my children's learning journey......
I reckon I have learned more in the last few years than I ever did in school.....
however, in the spirit of giving my children choices and allowing them to make decisions for
themselves, Isaac decided a year or so ago that he wanted to go to school
{you know, the kind with a teacher who actually knows what they are talking about - lol}
and so from Easter to Christmas last year {2014} he went to a fab school
while we lived in Perth, Western Australia......
at the beginning of this year we resumed home edding as we knew we would be moving back
to the UK at Easter time but I was very aware that Isaac wanted to return to a
proper 'bricks and mortar' school {as he calls it} as soon as possible......
and so, in September this year, Isaac will begin year 11 at a new school here in the UK
which he is very excited about......
however, having moved about so much over the past few years and having arrived back in the UK
at a rather awkward time for him {half way through the GCSE courses for his contemporaries}
he is going to have a busy year ahead making sure he is up to scratch with all the courses
he wants to take as he only has one year to do them in rather than the usual two......
to try and alleviate a little bit of the volume of work he will be taking on we decided that he
could take a couple of his exams early and so that is what he is going to start today.....
we launch in with English {two exams this week} and then move on to maths
in a couple of weeks time......
it feels like a watershed time really..... I think he is more prepared for it to happen than I am......
