Gill Kilner

2012-01-21T08:55:00.000Z

2012. Game: on

2011-07-22T15:05:00.001+01:00

"Threatening behaviour can consist of the deliberate use of silence."

2011-07-21T08:14:00.000+01:00

Government monitoring of home education provision: some points.

2011-07-07T10:45:00.001+01:00

Localism Bill - emergency Trojan Horse alert for home educators.

2011-05-13T17:48:00.000+01:00

"Who do these people think they are?"

2011-04-22T10:18:00.001+01:00

Before.... and after! (Spring planting)

2011-04-12T19:15:00.001+01:00

*Not* straw bales ;-)

2011-04-11T12:57:00.001+01:00

“Woman disappears down pothole whilst digging field,”

2011-04-04T12:36:00.001+01:00

"Why do we have to change the clocks twice a year?"

2011-04-01T12:49:00.000+01:00

"Why does ‘walk’ have an ‘l’ in it?"

2011-03-30T16:34:00.000+01:00

More on Pupil Registration Regulations

2011-03-29T15:03:00.001+01:00

Deregistration [from school] on demand - a vital civil liberty

2011-03-27T21:33:00.001+01:00

A friend who works for the census...

2011-03-23T05:46:00.001Z

Autonomous learning, what it means for us

Questions questions...

2011-03-20T19:07:00.001Z

Supermoon/ equinox partay

2011-03-01T16:53:00.001Z

Today’s “maths lesson”

My [not so secret] life ambition

2011-02-25T20:33:00.001Z

Where's that drawing board?

2011-02-20T13:56:00.001Z

Work parties rock (and mud, and even snow)

2011-02-18T02:44:00.001Z

We have a building site

2011-02-09T17:03:00.000Z

Coming on

2011-02-08T08:07:00.000Z

On regulation

2011-02-01T18:53:00.004Z

Imbolc

Home ed in bed

2011-01-30T21:57:00.003Z

That thing with the spade again

On extended family living

2011-01-27T04:35:00.001Z

On GCSEs

2011-01-24T22:28:00.003Z

Just living/learning

2011-01-23T08:05:00.001Z

Unfortunate turn of phrase, Mr Narey?

2011-01-22T16:40:00.001Z

Yesterday's sky

Hard graft

Single parenthood: not a problem!

2011-01-18T14:03:00.002Z

Slow progress, but still: progress

I don’t do strewing, *but..*

2010-12-21T21:00:00.001Z

Happy Yule

2010-10-15T16:15:00.000+01:00

This seems somehow pertinent this week.

2010-10-14T21:58:00.000+01:00

It won't stop there though, will it? CME -> ECM, *invalid* guidance and mission creep

2010-10-10T08:08:00.000+01:00

No new guidance for HE, until you've fixed the CME

2010-10-08T19:18:00.001+01:00

To keep us warm this winter

2010-10-05T12:35:00.001+01:00

New guidance?

2010-09-24T13:01:00.000+01:00

I never, *ever* do this

2010-09-23T19:12:00.001+01:00

Autumnal equinox

2010-09-23T18:23:00.000+01:00

I ♥ home educators

2010-06-29T12:02:00.001+01:00

Ultimate state control

2010-06-22T12:16:00.000+01:00

Solstice sunset

2010-04-27T09:39:00.000+01:00

Message to 'Off-Blog' readers

2010-04-25T19:28:00.001+01:00

Google Hollie Grieg

“Doing Egypt.”

2010-04-07T18:46:00.000+01:00

RESULT

2010-04-03T10:40:00.000+01:00

Since my last post here, we’ve been..

2010-03-28T15:27:00.001+01:00

"Ability to set up and maintain Virtual Learning Environments." ?

2010-03-15T07:06:00.000Z

Some thoughts on parenthood, children's rights and Maslow

2010-03-06T03:51:00.000Z

What are you doing here?

2010-03-01T12:57:00.001Z

Outcomes and the factors that affect them

2010-02-25T23:15:00.000Z

The thing is, Mr Badman...

2010-01-26T08:41:00.001Z

The Truth

2010-01-22T15:18:00.000Z

"We really won't stand for it. I cannot put it any better."

2010-01-12T19:01:00.001Z

"Upsetting both sides of the argument.."

2010-01-04T07:44:00.002Z

Learning last year

8am and it’s nearly light..

2009-12-21T08:36:00.001Z

Celebrate

2009-12-18T17:01:00.001Z

Walking in a winter wonderland

2009-12-17T09:26:00.001Z

AHEd press release: Radical rethink in Education policy needed following government inquiry

2009-12-16T06:42:00.001Z

That select committee report..

2009-12-13T18:06:00.000Z

Trying to keep up

2009-12-11T12:07:00.000Z

CSF bill: Equality Impact Assessment. "Just a paper exercise"?

2009-12-01T12:03:00.000Z

"It is really time that we started demanding an end to compulsion in education altogether."

2009-11-29T08:05:00.002Z

Lord Lucas speaks, and the one political dividing line between home educators

Please don't be surveyed by OFSTEd

2009-11-24T12:30:00.000Z

I have signed this petition

2009-11-21T23:21:00.001Z

Assessment has an *ass* in it

2009-11-20T15:58:00.001Z

I think this question is key

2009-11-19T14:09:00.000Z

Well, here it is

2009-11-19T06:55:00.000Z

I like it when people put their names to what they write

2009-11-15T11:38:00.000Z

On pragmatism

2009-11-06T11:09:00.000Z

The voice of the child was heard by DCSF - for 45 minutes precisely. (But the child was not allowed to publish its film of the incident.)

2009-11-05T04:13:00.001Z

Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy?!

More happens when you leave it alone

2009-10-28T08:39:00.001Z

Notes on the transcripts (10) - Qualifications, the UNCRC and 'a world defined by systems of knowledge'.

2009-10-26T09:18:00.000Z

Notes on the transcripts (9) - Funding, outcomes, sides of A4 again and yet more 'hope'.

2009-10-24T13:39:00.000+01:00

Notes on the transcripts (8) - The voice of the child. Sought, heard, but not necessarily believed.

2009-10-23T12:56:00.000+01:00

Notes on the transcripts (7) - Entering the home and interviewing the child

2009-10-22T08:55:00.000+01:00

Notes on the transcripts (6) - 'registration' (licensing)

2009-10-20T11:04:00.000+01:00

Notes on the transcripts (5) - SEN, AWPU, govt co-option of charities and the concept of 'support'

2009-10-19T10:52:00.001+01:00

Transcript of Barry Sheerman on Ed Balls: Today

2009-10-19T08:49:00.000+01:00

My consult response - on deadline day, as usual!

2009-10-18T20:31:00.000+01:00

Notes on the transcripts (4) - statistical spaghetti and the appeals culture

2009-10-18T13:58:00.001+01:00

Notes on the transcripts (3) - Child abuse and FOI requests

2009-10-17T07:08:00.000+01:00

Notes on the transcripts (2) - Badman continues

2009-10-16T11:17:00.000+01:00

Haha, a transcript (1)

2009-10-15T09:32:00.000+01:00

Desperately seeking transcripts

2009-10-13T07:42:00.000+01:00

Another thing Badman got WRONG

2009-10-12T19:27:00.000+01:00

"There has to be something that comes from the parents."

2009-10-10T18:56:00.001+01:00

DCSF coughs, papers fly everywhere..

2009-10-05T17:48:00.000+01:00

Two things to love about today

2009-09-29T11:20:00.002+01:00

About that 2007 EHE guidance

Magna

Erm – we missed a couple, didn’t we?

2009-09-21T20:49:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: summary of weak points

2009-09-19T10:09:00.001+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: points arising: Financial

2009-09-05T07:31:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: points arising: Illogical

2009-08-31T09:51:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: points arising: Legal

2009-08-28T10:41:00.001+01:00

I confess

2009-08-23T20:54:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: points arising: Safeguarding

2009-08-13T20:46:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: points arising: Language

2009-08-05T17:18:00.001+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: looking for weak points: Part 12

Natural living, natural learning

“How do you know when you can read?”

2009-08-01T13:55:00.000+01:00

I am still here, sort of. Here's an update to prove it.

2009-07-23T20:47:00.001+01:00

RIP: Freedom

Protected: At ten to nine

2009-07-16T11:23:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: looking for weak points: Part 11

2009-07-13T09:38:00.001+01:00

Visiting our MP

2009-07-11T17:58:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: looking for weak points: Part 10

2009-07-09T08:52:00.000+01:00

Stress testing the Badman report: looking for weak points: Part 9

Recovering, rethinking, redesigning, rescheduling

Protected: A photoblog – with a *few* words ;-)