Ds goes to a school where most of the children are middle to low ability- only 8-10% high ability. Humanities is taught in a mixed ability group. They have had no homework so far- but this weekend have been told to write a police report on a famous crime from history. Ds says (and I realise that 12 year olds are unreliable witnesses!) that they got no further guidance, and the homework was undifferentiated.
It strikes me that this is a very big ask for most middle and low ability children and would just be incredibly demotivating and end up not being done. Is there any good reason for setting homework like this?
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Just been thinking about ds's year 7 homework- interested in people's views.
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seeker · 17/03/2013 11:35
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