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Newsletter FrontPage Welcome to our Saskatoon and Area Homeschoolers' Bulletin Board!

 

 

This page is maintained by volunteer homeschooling parents for the benefit of our community.  Facebook is great, but has its limitations.  We hope to see this page utilized as a way of notifying our fellow homeschoolers of what's going on throughout the year.  We hope that it once again becomes an active means of communication.

 

You can help! 

Get the word out to check this page often.  Organize (and let us know about!) a field trip or class.  Participate in as much as you like. If there's information you'd like to circulate, please email or phone the administrator, Jennifer Peak.

 

Contacts

 

  • Saskatoon Public Board Liaison:  Tim Siemens (306-683-8294) siemenst@spsd.sk.ca
  • Greater Saskatoon Catholic School Board Liaison: Robert Revering (306-659-7012) rrevering@gscs.sk.ca

  • Prairie Spirit School Division: Janet Jeffries (306-683-2830) 
  • Saskatoon Home Educated Debaters: Wendy Costa thecostafamily@gmail.com;

                                                                   Jennifer Peak jennpeak@shaw.ca

 

 

 

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Announcements: 

 

Homeschool Directory Update:

 

I am updating the directory for the 2016/17 school year.

 

Please e-mail gjbenson77@gmail.com if:

 

-you are no longer homeschooling or you moved away and you would like to be removed

-you want to edit some information from last year's entry (eg. new address, new babies, children graduated, etc.)

-you know of brand new homeschoolers, new homeschoolers to the Saskatoon area, or people who have moved away or quit homeschooling from last year's directory

 

The updated directory will be e-mailed out mid-September, or when responses slow down.

 

Homeschool Directory

 

Commonly asked questions:

 

What is the homeschool directory?

A list of people homeschooling in the Saskatoon area.

 

Why do we need it?  Why do homeschoolers have to put this together ourselves?

We need it because the school board can't legally give out the names of the people who are homeschooling.  Also, this directory includes a few different school divisions, as well as Saskatoon Public and Saskatoon Catholic.

 

Is this list exhaustive?

No.  People are included on the list voluntarily.

 

I am super private and super private about my kids.  Do I have to give a bunch of information?

That's fine.  Many people are.  You can give as much or as little information as you want.  However, there are a few things that are mandatory.  (E-mail me for more info.)  Also, you must be included in the directory to obtain a copy of the directory.  So the directory is not going to go to just anybody.

 

In what ways do you find the directory useful?

Personally I find this useful if I meet someone new at a homeschool gathering, and then I want to contact them later, but you know, things were sort of frazzled with all the kids around, so I didn't get their number, I can look them up later in the directory. Or if my kids are wanting to play with other kids but I don't have time to drive them across the city somewhere, I can look and see if there are any homeschooled kids my kids' ages in my neighbourhood.

 

Isn't Facebook good enough?

No.  Not everybody is on Facebook, and some homeschoolers preferred to be contacted and kept up to date through e-mail.

 

If I join this directory, am I going to get ten million e-mails?

No.  I would estimate you will get 3-6 e-mails a year, and you can be removed at any time.

 

 

My name is Roxanne Frost. I homeschooled my four children in Regina and ended up with a lawyer and three doctors. I wrote a book detailing some of the things I did to help my children achieve this success. My book is called, "Three Doctors: Molding & Developing Exceptional Children". Please let me know if you would be interested in buying a copy. I am selling the book for $20. I would also like to hold a workshop in Saskatoon for parents who are homeschooling. I would talk for a bit, and then I would give you a chance to ask me any questions you may have. Please message me if you would be interested in this workshop. I truly believe we need professionals and leaders coming out of our Saskatoon homeschool group, and if I can be of any help to you and your children to achieve this, I would love to do so. My email isr.pawlukfrost@gmail.com.

  

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HELLO! In an effort to keep information current many of the out-dated items have been removed.  Please be helpful and remove your posted items when expired.

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