How am I ever going to get my kid to do homework ??

Formal homework for kids that young who should be playing for a little while after school before dinner, bath and bed is an exercise in utter futility and also not a great example (I’m a grown up and I don’t do work after I clock off 🤷‍♀️).
So I have not done any homework with DS this year. He’s on track in all areas, even ahead in some. We play Orchard games at the weekend, they are great for learning letters and numbers etc. I let him choose a set of reading books which are much more engaging than bloody Biff, Chip and Kipper which he’s read 4 times in class and memorised by the time it’s my turn to listen. We play “wordle” with his phonics flashcards and get his dad to do the letter actions sometimes then DS has to tell us the letters.
Basically the hour some parents are spending in mortal combat with the dreadful app the school use for homework, I’m actually using to engage with my child. Doing things he can do, rather than homework we all know has effectively been set for the parents. If I have to make it, I’m not doing it!

What changed for us was when the school themselves introduced a reward system. Those children who had 5 home reading records in a week got sticker and extra play time. It motivated both DC as he didn’t want to miss out on the school reward and us as parents to make sure we facilitated it!

At 5yrs old I honestly wouldn’t stress much, tick the box with the school reading book and let her relax at home. She’s very little and school is exhausting.

Mine are older and honestly I’ll help if needed and remind once or twice but if they don’t do their homework they suffer the natural consequence of getting in trouble at school. I don’t mind, it’s not my consequence. It’s not worth the stress and negativity at home. They need to learn to be self motivated and face the consequence of being lazy or bad at organising their time:

This has worked well for us, my elder DCs now happily complete it without reminders or interference. My youngest is work in progress, think she’s going to get a shock once or twice next year when she doesn’t do it, and will then hopefully pull herself together.

Would she be more receptive to reading books that aren’t school books and therefore not homework? Take her to the library and help her choose books of the right level and read them together. Or buy/ make games where she can put words together into sentences. If she dislikes writing try getting her to make cards for family and friends or helping with writing an easy shopping list.

Get creative but just make sure she does some regular stuff.

Gamer changer for us was switching to doing it in the morning before school. DS was so much brighter at that time. He read to one of us while we were making his packed lunch or similar, spellings and times tables we practised on the way to school. Now he’s in year 4 and gets one piece of written homework a week, but usually gets on with it at the weekend without too much complaint these days. When he was younger it was a lot harder work cajoling him into doing it, but it does get better with age OP!

Exactly my point op. You will get parents who ignore what school says and think homework is pointless. Those kids will lag behind their peers who are actually doing stuff at home. If you leave school work at school, then forget about the important stuff like timetables, reading , writing which she will struggle with because there’s no practice at home.

With my ds, he went to a school that just had homework as part of their routine. We have never had to force him to do it as he doesn’t even know there’s an option not to do it 😅.
I would ignore advice that homework is pointless. If school expects it then that’s what they need to do. And it will help them later on to study and do exams when they know how to create a routine of learning at home. It doesn’t happen overnight but from creating a habit.

Just don’t do it. Homework in primary is pointless. Has no affect on attainment. Plus you could rally out her off books and learning altogether.

Just read with/to her books she wants to read when she wants to and take the pressure off.

Don't stress yourself out, you don't have to do it, especially not when they're only little. We read interesting books at home not biff and chip, I want my kids to actually love reading.

As long as you read TO her that's great. You can quite easily put a kid off reading with those school schemes.

DD moaned and refused for England re homework in primary.

In secondary she does it - maybe not gladly, but she does it

5 is just too young to see the point.

Arguably there IS no point - meta studies show no value of homework at primary.

Ah it's hard, I do remember the struggle. All mine hated phonics and the graded reading book schemes, they found them boring and frankly so did I so I can't blame them.

Things got much better with the reading when they moved onto 'proper' story books for your reassurance and I never had to nag them to read after that. Once more structured homework like maths worksheets or crafts projects or whatever came in they also saw more of the point and didn't make such a fuss, note I didn't say no struggle at all, they did still whinge sometimes and I had no hope if they were tired or hungry or sick, and spellings and times tables were a permanent battle but we got into a reasonable routine with it and I allowed them some latitude if there was a genuine reason. They all went on to do absolutely fine academically - I tend to think of homework at primary level as just practice really, yes you don't want them to think it's unimportant or optional but little and often is fine...

My son doesn't like doing homework so we do it in bed. He does some reading and writing activities, a bit of maths, his reading book, I read a book to him and then he goes to sleep. I have tried doing homework at all different times of the day and I think the reason he doesn't moan about it before bed is because he isn't doing it during a time he could be doing something else (like playing). He is only 6 so I'm not sure what I will do in the future but it's working at the moment.

What are the consequences at school if she doesn’t do it?