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Opportunities for Part Time School / Homeschool in SA © Beverley Paine There are many reasons why families consider part time attendance at school in South Australia. Some just starting out on their homeschooling journey's feel apprehensive about how successful they will be teaching their children at home and aren't ready to leave the security of the classroom. It can take a year or so to 'find your feet' homeschooling and even longer to identify your child's preferred learning style and the approach to learning that works best for him or her. Other families find that they need respite from homeschooling for a variety of reasons: finanical considerations may mean that full time homeschooling is no longer possible; or the child wants to 'try' school; if the family lives in a socially isolated location school may offer the contact with others the child needs; the school may offer specialist instruction in subjects or areas of interest to the child unable to be found elsewhere in the community; parent ill-health or disability; and so on. Returning to school should never be considered as 'failing' at homeschooling or 'homeschooling didn't work out'. In fact, families continue to contribute to their children's education in a very hands-on way when their children are attending school. It is possible to part time school and homeschool in South Australia. In the past families have approached school principles and classroom teachers and suggested the idea. Some schools are okay with it and will allow it but others take a more conservative view and refuse. You can only ask. The Education Department of SA official position was that it would not support part time school/homeschool arrangements, but it would not interfere if the school approved. Many homeschooled students in South Australia have taken advantage of attending part time. For some schools it can be an advantage, particularly if the child is talented or gifted in a particular subject, such as dance, music or sport and participates in interschool competitions. The Yankalilla Area School, an Education Department school that covers Junior, Middle and Senior (primary and secondary) school years, has officially adopted a 'Shared School' policy that legitimises part time school attendance for home educated students in The Yankalilla Area School Annexe. Students work not in year levels but according to age and ability. Learning programs are determined by the ability, interests and needs of individual students, and by requirements defined by the Department of Education and Children's Services. The Annexe is a class where family and school come together to create an exciting and challenging learning environment, able to meet the needs of individual children due to its flexible organisation and high degree of parent involvement. It's been going since 1975 as an 'alternative school', and was conceived of as a class where parents could become as involved as they wanted, and over the years has tried (with some success) to implement natural learning into the classroom experience. The advantages of being part of the Annexe is living in the country near beautiful beaches, and the ease of which students transition to regular high school classes. The students of the Annexe use facilities in the main school (art rooms, science labs, gym, library, etc). There is also a private primary school - Kirinari Community School - situated in Unley in the Adelaide metropolitan area that offers a part-time program for home educated students. It is small, cosy, homelike, mutli-aged primary school, very similar to the Yankalilla Annexe, with a long history of supporting home education. The curriculum is flexible and the teachers communicative and supportive.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home.
In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and was a committee member for three years during which time she edited and produced the HEA Newsletter, Stepping Stones for Home Educators magazine, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications.
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