The closest thing to homeschooling that isn't homeschooling
Most families who homeschool in Durham didn't set out to teach anybody. They looked at what was on offer, decided none of it would do, and took it on themselves, usually at real cost to a career and an income.
You keep the control that made you start. What you hand back is doing all of it alone.
You keep the oversight
The reason most homeschooling parents give for starting is wanting to know what's being taught. That doesn't have to end at the school gate. You read each unit before your child is taught it, and the curriculum stays open all year.
If something's coming up in March that you'd rather handle at home, you'll know in January.
What you get that a kitchen table can't give
Other children, which is the thing homeschooled kids most often say they missed. A teacher for the subjects that get hard around Grade 4, and a workshop, a garden and a field that no house has.
And your own week back, with your children taught by people whose material you've already read. Whatever else homeschooling is, it's a full-time job somebody in the household is doing unpaid.
Part time is a real option
Part-time places are likely, and homeschooling families are much of the reason. Two or three days here and the rest at home is a sensible arrangement.
Tell us on the form which would suit you. At this stage the answers are shaping what the school offers.