How much homework do your yr7 dcs get weekly or daily?

[sunsout]

Do yr7s get a lot more homework than yr6s? Do they get homework for every subject?

[HolidayCriminal]

Depends on school, which set they're in, and the child.
DD is in y7 at a similar but different school from y9 DS. They are claim to be in top sets.

DD spends ages doing homework (gets at least one assignment in most subjects most weeks, including PE). Because she likes it & cares about the results, wants to be the best. Gets stressed out juggling it.

y9 DS does the absolute bare minimum & gets detentions. Before DD hit y7 I thought DS didn't barely get homework assigned. (sigh)

[Seeline]

My DS (Y7 at selective indie) gets 3subjects a night and is expected to spend 30-40 mins per subject. In reality he normally spends longer either because the assignment is complex or he faffs about deciding which font to use . Homework timetabled for all subjects apart from art, DT, drama and PE (although all have set some homework at some stage!!).
Homework for Y6 state primary consisted of spellings and a project once a week.

[TooBigNow]

Yes, much more in Y7 than in Y6. Most subjects at least one per week, with some subjects like maths giving multiple.

[mankyscotslass]

DS1 gets home work most nights in Yr7, not from every subject every day though.

He can have as little as 20 minutes research or written work to do or nothing at all, to a project or larger piece of work that has to be handed in in 2 weeks time.

Some days he has 90 minutes worth of homework across a few subjects, others nothing at all.

The biggest learning curve for him has been managing the workload, and learning not to put the larger pieces with the longer had over dates off to the last minute. And that if he is given a larger piece of homework with a longer return date on it, it is because the teachers expect him to put more effort into it and produce extended and challenging work.

He came from a Primary where he had regular homework that he had to do most nights, but the amount he gets in Yr7 has been an eye opener - though not as difficult to manage as we thought.

In reality he manages his homework really well now - he recognizes that if he wants to do his extra curricular activities and not panic at weekends about work due in, he has to be more organised. I do still check his planner and remind or "suggest" that he had better get homework done sooner rather than later, but in general it has been OK.

[alicetailor]

Depends on the school, teachers and board. My son in only in in 5th grade so he only gets so much hw. He gets all the time he needs to play ball at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Texas.

[OldBeanbagz]

I think it depends on the schools.

DD went from a very pushy prep with loads of homework in Y5/Y6 to a selective indie where she's timetabled to get 2-3 pieces of homework per evening but which isn't taking up anywhere near the time she was putting in before.

I have to say she's been good at staying on top of things in general as missed homework would mean detention at a time when she has an after school club.

[Kenlee]

I would say not enough now. My daughter came from a HK primary doing 11 pieces a night. At her School in the UK that is down to 4 with extensions..

She loves schooling in the UK.

[Picturesinthefirelight]

11 pieces a night. Poor poor children.

[sunsout]

11 pieces is ridiculous surely the key is quality rather than quantity.

[Picturesinthefirelight]

Completely unproductive.

[Kenlee]

That is why she is boarding in the UK...

Her friends in HK...still do 11 pieces plus tutorials..

Its crazy...She learnt nothing apart from memorizing past papers...

She now says she doesn't do much but has learnt more in a year than she did in 6 years at primary....

[Picturesinthefirelight]

That's good kenlee.

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[Picturesinthefirelight]

Homework should be to consolidate/practice things already learnt or carry out research to prepare for something about to be covered.

[MilkRunningOutAgain]

My DS is yr 6 and I've been reading the info pack from his secondary which says he will get an average of 1 hour a night, covering 2 or 3 subjects. I just hope it won't take much longer than an hour!

[sunsout]

Kenlee did your dd go to an independent school while in H k?

[Kenlee]

No she went to a local state primary band 1

[sunsout]

I do believe in something like 15 minutes practice each day to reinforce maths and licturacy learned in school. But not too much.

[Nocomet]

Not a lot, except for history, unless you get certain maths and English teachers.

German produces detentions because DD2 refuses to do it.

DD1 will get decent GCSEs despite being dyslexic and DD2 will get very good ones (though in French not German )

So, I really don't get the point of lots of HW before Y10

[meditrina]

IIRC, mine had 2 homeworks a night which were expected to take 20-30 minutes. But especially in the first term, less than this was set.

The homework timetable covered all the academic subjects, and sometimes (because of the timetable) more were set on some days, but they did not have to be handed in the following day (usually next lesson) so the 2 a night spacing would always work (if the DC was organised enough).

[merlehaggard]

About 2 hours a week I guess. It might be slightly more.

[mychildrenarebarmy]

My DD is going from home ed to secondary school so it will certainly take a bit of getting used to for her.
Most of the schools we went and looked round said they gave between 30 and 90 minutes a night. At one of them the pupils said the school start each year with loads of homework for the first 3 weeks of each term, then they ease off. One particularly academic pupil said it is because they then spend the rest of the term thinking how lucky they are.

[NatalieMc82]

My DS is in his last year of primary, he barely gets homework other than a small amount of project research, worried that secondary will be a huge shock to his (and my!) system..

[Kernowal]

Technically mine should get about an hour each night, but it varies from week to week between famine & flood. They've had nothing this week, but she has to build a model next week.

[piratecat]

have to say dd gets very little homework. I wonder why? I see it depends on schools/board etc, but aren't they all following the same basic curriculum?

Some weeks there will be 2 or 3 15 minute bits from varying subjects, per week. There might be a project over ten days or so, but she seemed to have the majority of homework in the first term.

She is probably in the middle-higher ranges academically, not altogether sure, but still i am amazed they don't give them more.

Yet, i am pleased she doesn't have too much pressure yet.