Are you following school set home learning? Or doing your own thing?

[Southwestern]

Are you following home learning set by your child's school or doing your own home learning?
I am really disappointed in the work being set by my child's secondary school. He is in Year 7 and I feel I could teach him alot more of the curriculum myself. He has 6 lessons a day of set "work" but it's honestly all complete guff! There isn't enough time to do both. I looked at #year7 on Twitter and the work seems much more comprehensive compared to the rubbish mine have to do. He had to write 3 sentences for English today.
What is everyone else up to? Rant over now

[Longdistance]

I have work for both dds Year 4 and 5. Dd1 in Year 5’s work is ridiculous. They have a MS teams call Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It’s a waste of time of 1 hour 20 minutes (it’s supposed to be an hour) of gumpf. The stuff the teachers are covering are on the power points given. Dd doesn’t want to speak on the call and most of those who speak are the same kids.
Her maths took ten minutes and some other subjects slightly longer.
However, dd in Year 4’s work is more, but we’re picking the work out for her. No teams calls, hurrah!

[Normandy144]

Yes I am following the work for my year 2 child. I frankly don't have the time to lesson plan as I'm working full-time. I'm really happy with what our school is providing, they provide a full time timetable with work sheets for every day. It's easy to follow and just what I need.

[nevergoingoutagain]

My year 6 and year 8 just doing school work. My year 1 whizzes through her "20 min" maths task in about 5. We're doing all her school work then extra eg using bbc bite size daily lessons, learning to tell time properly, cooking with weights and recipe instructions, repeating maths tasks, extra spellings or whatever takes our fancy!

The older 2 I have excused from a couple of tasks I thought were pointless or time fillers or they've spent too long and I've encouraged them all to do other things like guide badges. It doesn't get me very far they've got very lazy!! The youngest usually works 9-11.30/12 with a break in the morning. The older 2 9 til 12 ish unless they have a lot on!

[Nameynameychangey1234555554544]

I'm finding it somewhat frustrating, 'creative curriculum' means they basicslly combine literacy and the other subjects, so all the literacy tasks have been based on the tudors. DD finds literacy hard and it's even harder when she isn't keen on the topic she is writing about.

I have excused her from some things, with them all at home i am having to do all the jobs i would usually do when they are at school, so the chicken coop still needed building, field still needed harrowing, horses still need clearing up after and 'on the ground' excersize.

Our chicks started hatching yesterday, so all work today has gone out the window with the constant monitoring for overheating, checking humidity and tempersture levels, splinting a wonky leg and moving to the brooder, personally I think thats educational, and if her teacher wants an extended writing report why must it be on henry 8ths wives and not on chickens!

[LoisLittsLover]

Definitely picking and choosing here. I understand that differentiation in this situation must be a nightmare for teachers, especially at reception level with such a huge mix of abilities, maturity and home situations. Some (most) of the stuff is too basic for dd, so I try and extend it eg if they are doing a dot to dot then I draw her on counting in 2s or 5s. Sometimes we don't have the materials so I try and find an activity which teaches a similar point. We have also been doing lots of art and baking. The only thing I am clear is that she must read 3 books and write 3 sentences in her book per day

[Southwestern]

I have a younger child too. He is at a Primary whose school seem to follow a "creative curriculum" and I just want to bang my head on the wall some days. It's all "Imagine you are an Anglo Saxon" "Imagine you are an alien" Let's not imagine. Let's learn something factual.
My oldest at secondary had to imagine he was Jesus for RS this week.

[BestZebbie]

We are doing both, in that the school stuff (YrR) tends to run out by Wednesday.

[UndertheCedartree]

We are doing a bit of both. My Y3's school are very laid back and have said all the work is optional. They provide something 3 x per week. One day is a topic, one day a writing prompt and maths problem and the other is something creative. They also brought home their maths books and 2 library books and have online platforms - bug club, my maths, times tables rockstars and maths factor.

We do some of the school tasks she is interested in. Aside from that she has been watching the BBC Bitesize programme, doing some of the lessons and some on Oak. I have printed some Twinkl worksheets and been working through a times tables book with her. I have also got her First News (kids newspaper) and every week she writes a sentence or 2 about an article and she is writing the books she has read and a little bit about each one. We do a bit on the online platforms every week and the maths book too. She has also done cosmic yoga, pe with joe and the PE challenges school do every day. She does a lot of arts and crafts and has the subscription box from Baker Ross which is really good value for money. Every Sunday as a treat for trying hard on her work I give her a little 'prize' - they are mainly arts and crafts or educational sets/books. On Sunday I am giving her a kids science kit so we will have a go at that.

[Longdistance]

Gosh, I’m jealous of all the laid back schools.
My dds have maths, English, writing, every day. Science, RE, computing and art.
I’ve just submitted her maths, computing and science. The teacher sent it back via Teams it’s all completed. I don’t know if she wants my kidney on a fucking platter!

[MsAwesomeDragon]

My year 5 dd has maths, English and a choice of one or two others each day. They are a reasonable level of difficulty for average children, and the option is there to look at the younger years if necessary.

I teach secondary maths and set a task for each class I would normally teach that day. I record a video with examples that they'll need in order to complete the task, and I'll accept their work as a photo of their book at whatever time they submit it. Most of them are doing it, but obviously some are choosing not to bother.

[ginsparkles]

We do a mixture. Mostly I do the work set for us. Our school is doing a good job of giving us a mixture of practical and computer/worksheet based work. I have chosen to do less screen stuff and adapt things to be more pen and pencil. We supplement with some fun stuff which I have found too.

[poilymo]

Thankful for Oaks National Academy - child will do work from there unsupervised whist both parents work. Work set by school induces panic, tantrums and tears.

[lazylinguist]

My dc (yr 7 and 10) are doing exactly what the school sets, which is a full timetable of work for the subjects they'd normally have each day. It seems to be working really well.

[KoalasandRabbit]

A bit of both. Kids in y8 and y9. Practical stuff we are doing are own baking here instead of food tech and also have silkie chickens and indoor rabbit which the children help with, DD has painted her room. We are doing work set by school for ones will take to GCSE though have to make adaptations / find alternatives for my year 8 who is ASD. DD does some extra work in addition to what set by school. DS has a habit of going off on an tangent and needs everything 1 to 1 with me, if tangent is still related I'll look it up and sometimes swap things.

[sansou]

Y8 have lessons via google meet. Have caught her logging on but not actually doing much work so superficially attending lessons. Skiving HW too. She won’t be the only one - it’s hard to keep motivated with online lessons. Teachers aren’t notifying parents although they have chased pupils directly. Have to remind myself that it’s minor in the big scheme of things (after reading the riot act!) My Y11 has been roped in to help his sibling in Maths (I’m paying him!). Challenging for everyone.