Sorry to hear of your predicament. I found the Dementia Australia website helpful when navigating our family experience while Dad was living with dementia. The Help Sheets, particularly those about Caring for Someone with Dementia were useful.

Some of Australia's leading astrophysicists have teamed up with public health experts to detect possible outbreaks of COVID-19, even before testing takes place.

We did a trip to Europe with the kids when they were 12 and 14 and had them help with the planning. It was pretty informal though. Essentially we went to the library and borrowed a few of the most up to date travel guides and let them loose with post-it notes to mark items of interest and then share them at round table meetings while we were in the planning stage. They were specifically looking for what they might be interested to do, but were also encouraged to read the culture and history sections of the guides to place the chosen sites to visit or activities in the context of the country and its heritage. We found the DK and the Lonely Planet guides most useful. You might also try: 100% Pure NZ (Official Tourism Website) NZ History (gov. website) NZ Dept of Conservation

We are in NSW with my last child in Year 10, registered NESA and happy to share our experience – although I do not know anything about the HSC History syllabus and have only loosely followed the WTM! The NSW NESA history curriculum essentially follows the four year history cycle over Years 7 - 10, so when DD started Year 7 we started started in ancients with 'middle school' style resources and have just adjusted the level of difficulty each year as appropriate. In our case because DD has a June to June registration period we have a little bit of extra time next year when she would technically be in Year 11, but we have chosen to register as doing extension Year 10 work instead which means we are able to spread the history cycle over 5 years allowing more time for rabbit trails. (I have found that in 7 - 10 there has been some flexibility in the timing of our content delivery.) There are other options for further study that suit DD better than self-studying for the HSC, so I have not looked into HSC History at all, but my understanding is that there is little leeway when registering for Year 11 and the the expectation is that you follow their syllabus closely (although I have no personal experience of this so could easily be mistaken).

There is this Australian distributor listed here on the IEW website (but I have not used them). Australia My Schoolhouse Chris & Jenny Sandford P.O Box 94, Frankston Victoria 3199 Australia myschool.house info@myschool.house AU: 1300 886 700 NZ: +64 3 669 3399 Edited to add: I have since been in contact with them via email and received a prompt reply.

DS did the Research Paper class when it was available at WTMA which used Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers—that might help.

You might like to look at: Arrival City by Doug Saunders

Take out the passion for math, and this sounds like my kiddo whose goal is to study City Planning. Some free resources we have found in this area include: Brent Toderian selects the 100 best books on city-making that he's collected and read over the years FutureLearn: Smart Cities FutureLearn: Re-enchanting the City FutureLearn: Ethical Cities FutureLearn: Water for Liveable and Resilient Cities Your kiddo may also like: FutureLearn: Data Tells a Story FutureLearn: Systems Thinking and Complexity FutureLearn: Global Systems Science and Policy

Another vote for Write Now! DS used this when he was 14 because we had never got around to cursive for one reason or another. He still prefers to print or type, but he does sign his name in cursive now (and he actually enjoyed the historical information in the book). His sister also used this book to learn cursive when she was about 12 and now has lovely cursive handwriting which she uses all the time.

You might like to look at this thread

Thank you for taking the time to share this offer :001_wub:

BOSTES have a questionnaire available as a part of their current review which contains specific homeschooling/registration questions if you select 'Parent'. http://www.hea.edu.au/news/2016/04/survey-to-help-inform-bostes-review-panel/ This is an opportunity to take a quick survey and give the NSW BOSTES your thoughts, but it closes on Thursday, May 5, 2016.

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DS16 has just completed the one semester Writing the Research Paper class with Ms Meyers with which both he and I were extremely pleased. Ms Meyers is very organised teacher and an excellent communicator. DS found her instruction engaging and easy to follow, her expectations clear, and her feedback helpful. He also found the textbook to be both useful and user-friendly. FYI: We are in Australia so he did the class via the delayed format. DS 16 is also currently enrolled in Rhetoric 1 with Ms Richardson which he also studies via the delayed method. However, this class he is not so enamored with. Whenever I ask him how he feels about it, he always says the jury is still out... when pressed further he says he thinks the textbook is awful, but he likes the teacher and doesn't mind the lectures (and in fact actually enjoys the art and poetry appreciation sections that begin each lecture). He is looking forward to the last part of the course (week 20+) when they move on from the textbook, and I will be interested to see how he feels when he has completed the class. Last year DS also completed the Intro to Rhetoric class taught by Ms Brian with which, again, both he and I were extremely pleased. You can read about the experience here.

We have been considering A Levels as a pathway to university for DS and have found the National Extension College (NEC), who provide distance education both in the UK and to students worldwide, to be very helpful. They are used to dealing with home educators and even offer a family discount. This link will take you to their homepage or you can download their 2015-16 course guide. Did you know that the A Levels are currently being reformed? The course structure might be a little different by the time your students want to study for the exams, but again I have found NEC to be very helpful in answering such questions. The restructuring of the courses also mean that NEC will soon be offering A Level courses in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.