17/01/2018 We have had a busy and very interesting day today with a visit to our GP and then the Sick kids hospital to check if the older one's elbow had been fractured. Luckily, she's fine and will heal within a week or so from a minor injury. We have also had a trip to the garage to check the bodywork on our car as we were involved in a minor accident yesterday. Everyone is fine, thankfully. These appointments meant that the older one was off from school and there were a lot of questions about how x-rays were taken and observing the process, understanding why we had to go to different garages to get an estimate for the car and so on. The most engaging aspect of autonomous or self-directed learning is the confidence it instils in children to pursue a line of thought, seek answers and explore that topic as much or as little as they would like to, and in a manner that they are comfortable doing. Arian has been ruminating a lot about the things that he s