WK 13 - JANUARY 6TH 2014 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

     Happy New Year from us all.

     This week the girls got on with learning after they had a well deserved and relaxing few weeks over the festive period. 

     They were each bought a tablet for Christmas so they can use them to do their work on and also be able to use them for work outside of home.

     Unfortunately just before Christmas I found out that the exam centre we were going to use for Louise to sit her GCSE examinations in May 2015 has informed us that they will not now be a centre for the Edexcell Exam Board. This basically means that we have two options that are open for us. We can either find somewhere else for Louise to sit her exams or we change to a different exam board and basically start over again and most of the work Louise has done since September will be wasted.  

     This has lead to a lot of further research and some hard decisions had to be made. Louise, mum and I decided that with the nearest exam centre that accepted private candidates to sit the Edexcell exams being in either Manchester or Leeds it would be worse for Louise to have to go there than it would be having to try and catch and catch up with the work and be able sit them in a centre in Blackpool which she would be happier with doing. 

     So, we are back to the start and will now be working towards sitting the Cambridge International GCSE's. This actually made Louise happier as all the subjects she is taking are now entirly exam based and they no longer rely on course work to be completed. These exams are recognised not only in this country but are widely accepted throughout the world.

     This week Louise was concentrating on her maths work, as what she has learnt already is still mostly relavant for her new exams, while I work on preparing her syallabus for the other subjects she is taking so she can start work on those next week.

     Katie and Lily have been doing maths and english as well as their art and craft, reading and cooking.