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December 31st is the new birthdate to allow registration for Grade Primary.
Students registering for Primary must be 5 years of age on or before December 31st of the calendar year in which they are enrolled.
Parents of children turning 5 years of age on or before December 31st will be under no obligation to enrol their son or daughter in Primary year. Parents can choose to wait if they believe their child is not ready to begin formal education.
Proof of age (ie copy of birth certificate) must be provided with home education registration form.
If you choose to begin home educating after your child is enrolled in school, ideally your registration form should be submitted before you remove your child from his/her school.
There are 13 levels of public school education in Nova Scotia - Primary through Grade 12. The first year of education is undertaken at Primary regardless if begun at age 5 or 6.
CBC Halifax's "Mainstreet" ran a series of pieces related to home education from September 7 - 11.
You can listen to two interviews through the link below and scrolling down to "Recent Interviews".
Home educated youth Andrew Coll, Emily Coll and Josh Cruddas have had their animated film "The Escape of RGB255" selected to be shown at the 2009 Atlantic Film Festival which runs in Halifax from September 17 -26.
This trio have collaborated on past films which have won awards at the Viewfinders Youth Film Festival but this is this their first entry into the main Atlantic Film Festival. Congratulations!
http://atlantic.bside.com/2009/films/theescapeofrgb255_atlantic2009
Home Based Learners of Nova Scotia is a non-profit society incorporated in April 2005 under the Nova Scotia Societies Act. Our Memorandum of Association states that the objective of the society is to gather and share information to support our belief in the right of Nova Scotians to educate their children at home. Membership is open to any individual over the age of 18 years residing in Nova Scotia who upholds the objectives of the society and pays the membership fee – in 2005 set at $5.00 per year.
Our mission is to endeavour to protect the rights of parents in Nova Scotia to educate their children at home with no mandatory testing and with the least intrusive government reporting requirements. In accomplishing this objective our group will work towards the following goals:
Home Based Learners of Nova Scotia is an inclusive group, without religious affiliation, which encourages mutual respect for different philosophies. We support the right of parents to educate their children at home following the method that the family has chosen.
As a provincial organization, we realize that the diversity of Nova Scotian home educating families makes it impossible for this group to provide support services. Accordingly, we believe that local support groups will be more involved in serving day-to-day home education needs. The function of HBLNS will be to monitor and influence legislation and to maintain a vibrant website which will serve as a clearinghouse for information and a connection for home educating families and their local support groups.
