"oooh, mum! are we marking again?!!"

spot the ex-homeskooling family, all clustering around mama's marking of invitations for her ICT class. cos mama would love to give every kid in the class a Merit/Excellence, so the lads have the officious title of Moderators.


my kids at skool have been so wonderful about me trying out all my unskooling university theories on them: we've run this class on the inquiry model of learning with as much child-directedness as possible with 28 kiddos and only three hours a fortnight. we've based our learning around a class party (which is happening in two days' time!!! squee!! i need to sort my *R* dress ups pronto) which the kids've planned and are going to run. they've each created invitations using microsoft word (that's the ICT bit lol), which as a class we wrote success criteria for, and these are what my own lovely lads are helping to grade. it's funny, for all my anti-grading feelings, kids at skool don't seem to mind it so much.