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Sadly the Public Education System In South Africa is faced with many challenges, not least the rising costs of
education, lack of safety and security for our children, general apathy amongst educators, making quality
education out of the reach of a lot of parents.

Since home based education is a new concept in our country with a lot of hype and general misinformation
there aren't too many reliable local (SA) resources available, arriving at this decision after spending hundreds
of hours examining and absorbing the brilliant homeschooling resources offered by a multitude of exceptional
non-SA websites. What I aim to do with this site is share and discuss health information, education, ideas,
curricula, work plans, lessons, books and theme unit s which I have obtained or Monique has created or is
creating. I would welcome the opportunity of adding your own personal units to the pages. Please mail me
if you would like to contribute your work.

We were deeply honoured and surprised to have been notified that we had been awarded the Editor's Choice
Award in Your Student's News. This is an indication that the information and resources we provide fulfil a useful
function to the homeschooling family and students. We are extremely proud to have been chosen for this award.
Thank you!

Please visit eZine articles if you are interested in reading and/or acquiring any of the articles I have written and
published. You are more than welcome to upload the articles to your own website or blog or groups or even
mailing lists - please read the terms of use on the website.

Since this is a labour of love (actually born out of sheer desperation) please bear with me while I construct our
site with quality curriculum based education and information. I would welcome input, ideas, suggestions,
constructive criticism as we work together to build a site that can benefit the people of our land... Education
should be accessible to all and you know how the saying goes, if Mahommed won't go to the mountain....
Have a fantastic time teaching your children, remember life is not a dress rehearsal...

St Aiden's Interactive Support Group(join our interactive mailing & support group
where we can interact via mail and share ideas, upload files, pass on information on
other excellent sites and generally have fun, shed tears, moan, gripe, encourage,
support, throw ideas around and brag!)

St Aidens Homeschool Main Site (main website where you will find everything from
education activities from Pre-K up, teen & family health, law, arts, crafts, poetry,
literature, lesson plans, teaching and educator resources, clip art, themes, units in
other languages including Zulu, Hindi, Afrikaans... updated daily)

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Home Schooling is Fun - Really!

Why we homeschool, and a little bit of de-schooling...
The question that is fast becoming my favourite is "Why do you Homeschool?" The people I really like to share our
reasoning with are the ones that truly want to understand why someone would make this decision. But others will look at
us like we have grown a third head and have gone completely crazy. And still folk don't realise that home schooling has
been around lot longer than the public school system. For a typically South African flavour, we will be adding
age-appropriate printables, worksheets, thematic units. Much material utilised is free domain or has been begged or
borrowed, not stolen I hope :) Please join our interactive email group where we can share thoughts, ideas and smaller files

What Do We Aim to Achieve?

Since the inception of the Constitution of South Africa homeschooling finally became legal, with around 11000
homeschooling families countrywide. Since this is a relatively new concept in our country with a lot of hype and general
misinformation there aren't too many reliable local (SA) resources available (Took me a few hundred hours to discover that)
and many of those that are available offline are way, way too expensive for our average family. What I aim to do with this site
is share information, ideas, curricula, work plans, fun 'n games , lessons, books and units which I have obtained or created.
Suggestions always welcomed!!

I have included sections in this site for homeschooling moms - as one of those multi-taskers I realise how important it is to have
as much assistance in various areas of our life as possible. My sincere thanks to the suppliers of much of the content that will
be featured on those pages. Your legal questions about homeschooling in South Africa can be addressed to the Pestalozzi
Fund here

Tonight at dizzler.com

Visit our page where we feature a brief selection of specifically and meticulously researched and published books,
jam packed with curriculum-based fun and educational activities and teaching/student resources, and offered at
absolutely rock bottom values, including additional FREE eBooks that are not featured on our site. - simply print
and work :) The books can be previewed at Currclick. This page simply gives a brief description. Our books are
adaptable to all ages unless otherwise stated and can be enhanced with the use of the thousands of free eBooks we
offer on this website. I so look forward to meeting up with you at our Currclick Store.

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