Learning through Living

I really need to update and begin to document better 🤦🏼‍♀️

We’ve taken a step away from traditional learning, life took a sh*tty turn with a housefire wiping our hugely costly stash of home ed stuff, us being temporarily homed, my cancer diagnosis and a move to a permanent home in a sh*tty area.

In between the diagnosis and now, there has been little to zero learning curriculum style, there has been many hours of life living.

Scarlett joined two different theatre groups, she found a singing voice that got her brilliant parts in some fantastic little shows, she performed in CATS the musical at The Point Theatre, she performed at The Mast and The Mayflower too, she danced and acted for Men’s Mental Health week with a dance school, she completed half a GCSE in photography and was unable mentally to complete the second half - but we can pick it up later.
She’s done cookery classes, she’s been taught barista skills and gained certification in both.
She’s skated, my goodness she’s skated so much.

Scarlett started skating just two years ago and she’s completed her levels 1-10 in Skate Excellence, she’s completed her passport of bronze, silver and gold in figure free skating and has completed her passport of bronze and silver so far in ice dance, she’s also decided to take up Skate Excellence Advanced and passed her level 1, she’s competed in three Spin Spiral Jump comps, an artistic comp and even performed Matilda as a group number and her solo as Rapunzel’s I can see the light in Milton Keynes.
She has the next Spin Spiral Jump comp next weekend and then move on to bigger comps and her tests.

We are planning to go back and restart where we left off educationally and see if the long break has helped, I know it won’t involve the small classes again or face to face tutors, not right now at least.

I will update with pics and I’ll attempt at the regular stuff 😂😂

When her spirals are way higher than me.. 😳
a good programme run through and she is happy with how it’s all come together, a fantastic lesson ❤️
Practise practise practise ready for next weeks competition 🤩

Beautifully written by
This explains our life so well 🥰
Thank you Jo 🥰

Coffee cake, choc chip coffee cake & cappuccino cake... it’s Friday cake-day!!
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Meet Gerald!!
He is going to be our Anatomy and Physiology Buddy 💙
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She builds a runnerbean frame from the trampoline. Can’t wait to get them planted up and see it in it’s full glory and in use 🥰 @ Southampton

She couldn’t sleep so we played connect 3... using just the yellow counters 🤣

Dismantling the trampoline as the allotments have bought in a new rule against play equipment:(
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It’s 3.25am and she’s come down to find me.. she’s only been asleep 2hrs but still her mind wakes her up and makes her leave her warm bed to search me out.
It doesn’t matter if I’m asleep, watching tv, in the bath or like tonight just sat reading on the sofa with the dogs on my lap.
She’ll sit beside me, steal my warm dogs and wait until I’m ready to go to bed.. which is often right away to ensure she gets back to sleep.
Her bedtime is 9pm, her sleep function is rubbish unless she can feel me near, even then she is fitful and teeth grinds & talks in her sleep.
Welcome to our nighttime’s, 11yrs and still counting!

Egg float test... they are all days fresh but it’s good fun to see what they do 🥰
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