Recently we have adopted homeschooling for my 11 year old son. After sleepless nights mulling over the possibility of him moving on to a more flexible way of learning, we decided to go though with it and now that we have taken that step I am so pleased with it that all my concerns have been completely cleared. We chose to follow the National Curriculum and went with an online school that gives support with tutors for each subject including tutor marked assignments for every unit. It is a method often used by children who practice a lot of sports and therefore need to manage their time better. For us the decision was accelerated by the fact that for the last year or so we have been living in Spain, where my son is pursuing his tennis passion by training in a high performance tennis centre. Though others who train with him had already been following this schooling system, we initially thought it was a little early for him to study on his own so we enrolled him in a Spanish school last year in September when we moved here. Of course then I didn’t know that the main language in schools in Catalunya is Catalan and not Spanish, though in actual facts they study both it was still a huge let down to me. The whole experience has been great for him, because he learned the two languages very quickly and he made friends equally fast. The curriculum seemed a little slow, but it did not matter he had done most of it already because he was still learning something new. A year on he speaks Catalan as it is the language used in school, but ironically he speaks Spanish better because this is the language the children choose to communicate among themselves. The school system in Spain is different from many places in Europe as children stay in primary education until the age of 12 when they move on to secondary school, this would not be a problem if the program was a little more advanced, but now that the novelty of the language has faded he was left studying the same old thing and was extremely bored in school. It started to feel like the many hours spent in school could be better spent studying a more challenging program. So we made the change and we are all very happy about it. He does his schooling in the morning, three hours a day four days a week and the amount of work he is able to fit in one morning work is just great. Studying science will be challenging at times, because the fun part happens in the lab, but we are going to have a lot of fun setting up the experiments at home. Apart from the subjects he has tutors for, English, Maths, Science, History and Geography we are going to do some fun art projects and maintain his knowledge of Italian and Spanish.