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		<title>Celebrating IGCSE Exam Results!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie has just received her IGCSE exam results and we are celebrating! She got 4 x A in the subjects that she took in June. These were all with the CIE board. English Language (A) Geography (A) Environmental Management (A) Biology (A) These are added to the 3 she passed in November 2009. Chemistry (C) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exams and Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funding for Exams at College for Home Educated Children]]></description>
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		<title>Busy Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The summer weeks seem to be flying past. Jacqueline has already done a Drama week at a local school and is currently away at Guide camp. She has activities most weeks now until the beginning of September, including a week in the Lake District and another Drama week. We have found another riding stables for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exams finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yippee! Stephanie has finished her IGCSE exams. Now we just need to wait for the results, so we can confirm her place at College to do A-Levels in September! She has worked her way through hundreds of past exam papers over the last few weeks. So, now we are working towards Speech and Drama exams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drama Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During half term week, Jacqueline did her regular holiday Drama Week.   It always amazes me how much children can accomplish in a week. This is a group of 8-12 students who only see each other for Drama in the school holidays and each time there are different students, yet they put on an entire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speech and Drama Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally received the results of the LAMDA Speech and Drama exams that the girls took in March! We are delighted with the results.   Stephanie got 84% and a Distinction in her Reading for Performance Bronze Grade 6 and 87% and a Distinction in her Public Speaking Grade 6.  That gives her quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Jacqueline!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have just had Jacqueline&#8217;s 14th Birthday Party. We went to the West Midlands Safari Park and had an absolutely brilliant day.   Jacqueline&#8217;s friends were from several different groups, including Home Education, Guides, Drama and her cousins. It was really lovely to see how well everyone got along. Most people did not know each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creswell Crags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We went to Creswell Crags in Derbyshire, which is a valley that dates back to the Ice Age. It has Limestone cliffs, which originally were the cliffs on a shallow sea.   Our ancestors apparently used ot walk from what is now France to Creswell Crags each Spring and then spent the Summer there.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exams and Revision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now entering exam season and Stephanie is busy preparing for her IGCSE exams in the next few weeks.   There are some very helpful sites with past papers of all different subjects and exam boards. These are very useful for revision, as most of them have a marking scheme with them, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zip Wire Fun at Blackwell Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had another excursion to Blackwell Court. This time, the children went on the zip wire, which is supposed to be one of the longest in Europe.  They had a great time. It was just a shame there was not time to have more attempts at it.             Next month [...]]]></description>
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