Saturday, December 3, 2011

Loose Ends

We've returned to physics this week, with a week on magnets. There were loads of great experiments, but everyone was most taken with the floating magnet.






Craft projects are nearing competion, and are looking fabulous.

Willow's horse, with some extra detailing.


Gabriel's cross- stitch finished and just needing to be made into a cushion.


We also had our homeschool review this week, and got through it all ok, so that was a relief. It's always nice to have that done for another year.

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2025

We were still on our first Western Australian moderator at this point.  In Adelaide we had a new moderator every year, until our final year, when the new guy told us he'd be back to see us the following year, but we moved to Perth.  

That experience was an enlightening, there were a lot of issues with the moderator system in South Australia at that time, and a friend who used to be a political lobbyist advised us to let our local MP (who was the Education minister at that time) know that the government was leaving itself open to litigation.  We did that, and we got a very average reply which seemed to say nothing, but then on our next meeting we had a new moderator!  So it seemed that something had actually worked.  (The number of moderators was part of the issue.)


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