Hands from the Home Educators of East Dorset group

more lovely new hands

If anyone has sent hands that have not been put on the blog , it does mean I haven't received the hands, I was using Aol mail and it has let me down rather a lot I think, so please feel free to resend any pictures, saved as jpeg or gif . You can email them to me using the email me links at the side here.

Can I take this chance to say I do this blog for anyone and any group, it isn't just for eo people, please mention us to any groups who you think might like to join in.


CHRISTMAS HANDS would give us a nice festive feel , if you'd like to do some I'd be thrilled :o)

these hands have been sent to me by Barbie :o)

Some nice new hands

slide show

Some encouraging comments and some more lovely hands :-)

These hands belong to Nadine who is 14 years old and is Aunty to Emmie and Liam. Apart from saying....'Liam, please stop drawing on my hands, draw on your ones!' (LOL)She says, 'It is stupid why everything has been fine for all these years now they wanna poke their noses in. They should sort out the schools!'

Emmie is 7 years old and says.... 'I think that the government should leave us alone to home educate however we like. We are very happy and don't want anything to change!'

Little Liam is 2 years old and says 'More choc choc stars-pleeeease Mummy?'

These hands belong to Jay, 29 year old home edding Mum.My wish is that if enough of us shout loud enough, hopefully someone will hear!! I want my children to be happy and healthy and to be in an environment where they are safe and loved. No-one loves my children as much as I do-what makes the government think that THEY have my kids best interests at heart and I don't? I would die for my children, would they??? LEAVE US ALONE-PLEASE

I love your Left and Right :-)

Jamie William "I want to learn what I want , when I want!"

Connor "I wish to stay home educated."

Caroline, Mum to two HE sons says "I wish for the best possible start in life for my children and for them to achieve their full potential . I feel that's through home education."

And then two lovely emails that came to me:>>>

Hello
Just wanted to let you know that I think the "Hands Up 4 Home Ed" idea is a really good one. I think that it is allowing the children themselves to express their views and desires in a very eye-catching and colourful way. If there are plans to visit Downing Street (as a National undertaking) with these hands we would be happy to join in with that. I think the bigger the event and the more people joining in the better. We haven't designed our own hands yet, but will work on that sometime soon.
I'll keep my eye on the Freedom For Children To Grow site in case any information about this comes up.
Regards,
Tina Robbins

What a wonderful idea with those hands and the lovely messages on them about how good home education is.It is really uplifting to read all the hands messages.
let our children be free from those who wish to keep interfering in our home education and just let us get on with the job.
Best Wishes
Peter Carol Peter

some more lovely hands

I have a bit of a hold up with scanning (just not enough minutes in the day , so anyone who has sent hands for me to scan, well they will be here ASAP.

here are some lovely hands sent to me by email :o)
Karen, Isle of Wight, aged 41 - "I hope that my children remain free to think & learn for themselves..."


Maddy, age 8, Isle of Wight - "I think that home education is a lot better than school because you get to see your pets more and do more"
Tyler, aged 5 - "I (heart) HE"

Hands up 4 home ed in March

We had a lovely time at Bromsgrove home ed group where we did some hands and met some lovely people , we then went to a hands up for home ed gathering where we made some more lovely hands and met some young people who were keen to share there ideas with us. Here are some pictures of the day and some pictures taken by a large hand sculpture . Hands up 4 home ed, lets all wave and show people we are here :o) more hands posted tomorrow :o)

from Somerset

Let me be a parent to my 3 children and you to yours! Cherie-Ann 35
Griff 9 years old wishes that Tony Blair would let us do ( something I can't read ) do send me the end of your wish again sweetie )
Redd 9 years I wish we would be free.

Dru 24 months - I would like to have the choice to be home educated like my twin sisters.

and more hands :o)

Olivia, 5 "I wish I could stay at home"

Rosie, 7, "I wish to have a whole day of work"

and "I wish I could have extra hours of work"

Thomas age 7.

Samuel, 9, "Stop messing with us and let us do what we need to do"

William, 4, "Stop bullying us"

Alex, 9, "I wish we can do more recycling to save the world" and

"I wish we did not have strict teachers"

Bethan, 9, "Down with force and up with choice for kids!"

Bethany, 4 "I wish that children could choose school or home education"

Connor just age 2 :o)

Joshua, 11, "Let us learn how we want"

Scroll all the way down to see our hands.

We've had an article written about our campaign by Home Education magazine in America.
You can read the article here my word how lovely that now our campaign has reached foreign shores.
Why Hands Up 4 Home Ed?
There are home educating people, discussing whether autonomous or didactic, scheme or first hand, school at all? or maybe a bit of flexi time? Write it or type it? Photograph it or draw it?
Whichever philosophy we follow, or beliefs we have as home educating parents, the main thing at the centre of our endeavours is the well being, happiness and welfare of our children doing the very best for our children to ensure they reach their full potential.
We are fortunate to cater for our children in a unique one to one situation that can never happen in schools. Indeed Tony Blairs campaign for "Every Child Matters" is already our belief, but we really mean that each one of our children matter, home educating families have already been effectively living and believing this for years. The government trying to undermine our freedom of choice is undermining the family blocks this country needs to be stronger not weaker.

Our children are happy, delighted, smiley and proud about their home ed. They are empowered and reassured by having a say and real choices about their own learning and thier own future ambitions.

The government's policies and meddling ways threaten our existence, threaten our lives , our ways of living, they threaten our autonomy and are set to impose on/limit our life size curriculum into something that will suit LEA's rather than cater for our children's needs.

What can we do about it? How can we help?
I for one am rather hopless at understanding the Ps and Qs and politics of it all, but what I do understand is the welfare/happiness and rights to make choices for and with our own children.
I also understand that we need to unite ourselves in a way that is easy for everyone to understand :o)
A petition that will be colourful and exciting and will give the children a voice.
It will shout "Hey we're holding up our hands to home education, we do it and we are proud that we live it."

The children can understand and relate to Hands Up 4 Home Ed, let's yell it to anyone 'up there' who needs to hear it, lets make a BIG SPLASH.

Please can children and parents do an outline of their hands and decorate them with their first name on each palm (even supporting friends and family my sister doesn't home ed but she approves that we do - you might have others who want to do hands and say their bit)
With your beautiful pair of hands write a wish for your life, your home ed, putting your family first.
I'd love to put on letters or home ed inspiring and good news stories. One little boy has written a letter to Tony Blair . . . . . .when we have a large enough collection Tony Blair will be seeing them and will have to answer, after all every child matters, so he couldn't possibly ignore us could he??

It's useful to have your name, age and town or county or country. We aren't wanting to know exactly where you live , but a rough idea of how far spread we all are - eventually we can put dots on a world map - hey look at us :o)

Send your hands and your wishes/dreams to me at handsup4homeed@aol.com

How fantastic would it be to have thousands of hands and wishes to show how determined we are. I'll post them all on the blog and when we have thousands we can petition the gov't.
It will be a great unifying movement, whatever our views we can all join in with this.
Imagine the impact. Let's give Tony Blair "Every Child Matters" for real !!
Downing Street . . . . .well how many hands and wishes can we wave at the gates???
Children and family power, let the children tell the gov't what they want !!