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How much homework in Year 7?

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CrabbyTheCrabster · 04/09/2014 23:01

I'm just wondering how much homework your Y7s get/got? Do they get homework every lesson/subject? How long are they expected to spend on each piece?

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Sunnymeg · 05/09/2014 16:53

DS's school an hour and a half a school night plus a project each month on a given subject. They are expected to spend around five hours on each project, but realistically it is more like ten to twelve hours per project as they have to do research to be able to complete it.

VestaCurry · 05/09/2014 00:37

It's approx 5 hours a week

Scoobyblue · 05/09/2014 00:14

Dd was supposed to have 3 subjects at 25 mins per subject each night so 1 hour and 15 mins total. Some bits would take longer (eg essays) and some bits would be shorter but on average over a week it would even out to about this.

BackforGood · 04/09/2014 23:50

None of mine every had as much as that in Yr7.
dd2 (just going in to Yr8) would generally get 3 subjects a night, but a lot of them could be done in 5 10 mins.
This will vary hugely, school to school, but also depending on the child.

I remember chatting to my dd1's friend's Mum a couple of years ago, and she was saying how many hours her dd was spending on homework. I was like this -> Confused as both our dds had been together since Nursery, all through Primary, and were now in about Yr9 of same secondary, and both had always been pretty capable, but my dd was spending a fraction of the time hers was, on the same pieces of homework, from the same sets, in the same subjects at the same school (dd, btw, was getting good grades - she'd not decided to 'opt out' Grin). It was a HUGE difference. I still don't understand it, tbh.

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CrabbyTheCrabster · 04/09/2014 23:49

So an hour and a half of homework a night in Y7 vjg? Shock Wow, wasn't expecting that much!

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vjg13 · 04/09/2014 23:37

It will be 3 subjects 30 mins each every night. Not all for next day.

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