About ten years ago our local home educators group hosted its first ‘Picnic Race Day’ way back when Koala was not yet school age. We had races, novelty events and treasure hunts; as the children grew older and the group bigger we evolved into a more traditional sports day , still retaining the novelty events. Yesterday saw us once again gathered together. It was a lovely winter’s day, the sun was shinning and the skies were a clear blue. Thirty-eight children gathered together to enjoy a day of sports and companionship. We started with sprint races for the various age races. Michelangelo gives it all he’s got here. After the…

Easter Thursday saw our family traveling to our local Home Education Swimming Carnival. One of the wonderful things I love about the area we live in the opportunities our Home Educated children have, we do not take it for granted that they are privileged to have swimming and athletic carnivals and end of year concerts. These events are not common and not in all areas. The children were keen, this was the second year we had attended and Princess particularly had been preparing hard for the last couple of terms with swimming lessons. Imagine Princess’ joy when she won most of her races:) and then she was pretty proud to…