Personally, I'd like to see very little or preferably no homework in primary schools. There's absolutely no evidence that homework is beneficial at all at primary level. However, I would accept and work with the school if a small amount of homework was expected and it was about consolidating basic skills like spelling, cursive writing and maths.
The last Ofsted was not good, and I believe that the intentions of the HT are to raise standards, which I would absolutely support. But this isn't the way to go about improving standards. The HT has not consulted parents and has no intention of doing so, believing it is a school issue and not up for discussion.
This term my daughter's weekends have been taken up with an incredible amount of "project based" homework. I don't wish for the school to be identified by describing the projects, but it involves huge amount of parent participation which totally negates the idea of learning to work independently. Lots of building, research, online math activities, craft-y stuff and (horror!) poster making crap. I resent the intrusion into family life - we've spent hours and hours doing these ridiculous assignments.
Anyway, I'm not alone. Most of the parents (and I believe some of the teachers) feel the same way and we want a change in homework policy at the school. Has anyone successfully campaigned against this homework tyranny in a diplomatic way? Any tips or suggestions gratefully received.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Join our Primary Education forum to discuss starting school and helping your child get the most out of it.
Primary education
Homework tyrrany at Y3. Parents want a change. How to approach HT about his? Anyone done this successfully?
42 replies
bowerbird · 01/10/2012 10:05
OP posts:
tiggytape ·
01/10/2012 10:37
This reply has been deleted
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.