What is Key Stage 3?

Quite simply Key Stage 3, is the education a student is expected to cover in UK schools between the ages of 11 to 14.

Our courses have been designed to cover the same material as the National Curriculum.

How you use our courses is up to you. You may wish your child to study the entirety of the course, or you may wish to miss some aspects out. For example our Science Course touches on the Darwinian Theory of Evolution, whilst most parents will wish their child to learn this, some may not. If not, then don't cover this lesson with your child. We will be as flexible as you are.

Standard Attainment Tasks

In schools students would sit Standard Attainment Tasks (SATs) to assess their learning. It is not compulsory for Home Educated Children to sit the tests, so we don't make them part of our courses. However if the student wishes to do a SAT past paper and have it marked, we will happily do so for a charge of £30. Some parents may find this a useful benchmark or may wish 3rd party verification of the students learning to show their LEA

The Role of the Tutor

Your tutor will be available to you by telephone. Whilst the student is actively studying they will contact the student to check everything is OK. When you first enrol with Oxford Home Schooling, your tutor will contact you to introduce themselves and arrange planned contact with the student. The tutor is primarily involved in academic enquiries.

The Role of the Mentor

t’s hard studying on your own – even if you have a tutor who is just a phone call away. There is no doubt that your chances of staying the course and succeeding in your studies improve if you have the right back-up team. However much support the student gets over the phone from the tutor, no home schooling student will thrive without daily help from a mentor. In the case of young students that nearly always means the parent.

Here are a few of the roles that the parent/mentor might play:

• Encourager
• Motivator
• Study organiser
• Topic explainer
• Exercise marker
• Stick-and-carrot provider
• Friend and confidant
• Progress assessor
• Transporter
• Technical facilitator
• Ideas provider
• Exam arranger
• Careers (and HE) adviser

Full details of all these roles can be found in the Oxford Home Schooling document, "The Role of the Parent or Mentor". The full text of which can be found here.