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US parents hear Oxford and picture a college. We mean a primary sequence: numbered lessons, reasoning before drill, and a path that still works if you move. Here is the honest version.
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Texas parents keep asking us for a notice-of-intent form. There isn't a statewide one. Here is what the law actually asks you to do, and what we still keep on paper anyway.
An informal enquiry is not an Ofsted inspection. Here is what UK home-educating parents are usually asked, what you do not have to agree to, and the folder we keep ready anyway.
Most families who stop homeschooling in the first year do so for the same three reasons. Here is a start plan that avoids all of them, step by step.
Oxford-aligned materials are the most requested curriculum at Fayferz. Here is what 'Oxford curriculum' actually means, where it is genuinely excellent, and where it is the wrong choice.
A week-by-week kindergarten plan covering phonics, maths, science and fine motor skills in about two hours a day — with the parts you are allowed to skip marked clearly.
Grade 1 maths curricula list dozens of objectives. Five of them predict how the next four years will go. Here is how to teach each one, and how to tell when it has stuck.
Far fewer than a school day. Here are realistic instructional hours by grade level, why one-to-one teaching is so much faster, and what to do with the time you get back.
A plain-language summary of what each major homeschooling country requires — notification, registration, assessment and record-keeping — with links to the official bodies.
There are hundreds of homeschooling apps and most differ only in presentation. These are the eight features that change how your year goes, and the three that are marketing.
Age is the worst predictor of readiness. Here are the six specific things to check before choosing between the Foundation Year Programme and Kindergarten.
Illness, work deadlines, new babies and bad weeks are not interruptions to homeschooling — they are the conditions. Here is how to design a routine that expects them.
The evidence on how children learn to read is unusually settled. Here is the method, the order to teach sounds in, and the four mistakes that cause most stalls.
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