Y7 Homework in the first full week

Not much really.

German and Spanish vocab.

IT: finish writing a survey and get 4 people to respond.

Science: plan and write up an experiment on what impact adding salt has on the time taken for ice cubes to melt.

PHSE: 20 mins written work on how she felt on first day of term

No maths because they were testing last week.

English: 20mins on a first memory

I have a feeling this is them being eased into it rather than what should be expected for the rest of the term!

DD had her first full week last week and got around 3 pieces of homework each day. Not too difficult, just time consuming. It takes her between 0.5 hour to 1.5 hours depending on what is needed. I'm not sure what she needs to do, I only ask whether she has finished.

The hardest pieces have been revising for a MFL test, she's not sure what form this test will be (verbal or written) and doing a timeline for history - she chose to do it on the pc and got herself into a tizz over the formatting

I think I'm fortunate though that she does all her homework on the day that it's set, rather than leaving things until they're due. Some of her friends are doing that and have already let things pile up.

hehe no one but me wants to meet DT!

They write it in their book so anyone non cool is safe.

DS had

8 difficult maths us with lots of parts on prime numbers. It was hard.

Write a paragraph on why Voldemorts nose is flat and skim read an article, write down what you think is important about it, read it carefully and then write down what's actually in it and assess whether the skim reading worked, for English.

Create a time line of his life, annotated with photos and info for history

Cover 3 exercise books

Prepare ingredients for a cooking lesson and pack them up to take in tomorrow

German vocabulary to learn and a simple conversation ( hello, how are you, how old are you, where do you live type plus answers)

Science - research the energy requirements of kids and teenagers and find out the energy content of favourite foods

Geography - print out some volcano pictures, and label a map with some countries/ capital cities

The maths, science and history all took a long time, the rest he did quite quickly.

DD had MASSES in her first week and was completely overwhelmed. DS conversely had very little. Both at same school, but different year-groups/streams.

IMHO, less is more.

Clary - DD2 has met David Tennant a couple of times! :) So have I - he was lovely. I was just thinking it was the sort of thing that might single out the non-cool kids.

LaQueen - my DDs are also at a grammar and the policy is not to set much homework at all. If DD2 had 1.5 hours of homework every night she'd have to give up some of her extra curricular stuff and that would be a shame.

rabbit I need them to pretend to meet the celebrity and ask them their name and how they are - they write this in the book in target language with the picture.

I have a powerpoint with David Tennant so I do lots of fainting and breathless excitement at the idea of meeting him

It's interesting as well who they want to meet!

DDs school gives them no homework for the first half term. She had lots in primary school, so is thrilled!

Clary - why on earth would you want them to bring in a picture of a celebrity?

Surprisingly little so far esp given huge amount we had to do over summer! Think they are easing them in gently.

Bits she has had have been interesting, thought provoking or needing to use creative/observational skills.

Others say the school loads it on at a consistent level rather than front loading if that makes sense.

DD will have 8 pieces a week, as specified in her homework timetable, starting on Monday. Her school is very good about only setting homnework specuifuied on the diary, but is also conscientious about it being the right sort of length and always set and marked. Not much point in having lots of 'makework' homework that isn't marked.

I thought it seemed like a lot clary. I did ask my friend whose daughter has started at the same time as mine about her homework. She has only had 6 pieces. DD is plugging away at it but is getting a little stressed by it.

Ds has hardly had any though I suspect that will change!
He's had- Spanish, research some fun facts and write a piece on .
English- a creative writing piece.
Spanish- learn to say numbers 1-15.
That's it.

I'm dreading it, ds is exhausted, has to leave at 7.15 instead of 8.50 at primary, gets 2 buses to school and 2 home, gets in and is absolutely starving:)
Off topic, he's got a full week of exams starting Monday to determine sets.

I have set yr 7 homework to cover their books!

Next week they will need to bring in a picture of a celebrity they like.

The week after that we will start with learning vocab etc (I teach MFL).

DS2 is in yr 7 and had about 5 pieces Thurs/Fri. Nothing major tho, more "what are the breaches of science lab rules in this picture" or making a label for his art book.

WOW @ some of these esp bakedbeans and Laqueen

Blimey, dd3 has had hardly anything! They are supposed to only have maths, English and science for the first few weeks, but she has had "spot the hazard" for ICT and Food Tech, and has more ICT this weekend. Half an hour reading for English, nothing for maths or science. Cover a couple of books.

Science 1- graph of work done in class re. Temperature of acetones.
Science 2 - vertebrates/invertebrates.
Maths - BIDMAS stuff. Basically reviewing stuff DS did in primary so took about 10 mins.
ICT - definition and uses in daily life poster.
English - reading comprehension questions.

DS has loved it as not at all challenging yet. Have told him they are easing him in gradually and they set them at half term.

Methinks he will not be so casual about it all then...

Some of your y7s seem to have had way more than my y11

Art - Design a cover for her sketch book with the title Colour Theory.
Textiles - Design a cover for folder following the theme of the term.
Drama - Write down three personal targets and answer questions based on the first lesson.
IT - Think of an everyday problem, draw and write a 6 step solution.
Maths - Write down a maths related word for each letter of the alphabet.
History - Explain what happened to a missing person based on the evidence from their bin bag.
RE - Write own version of The Lord's Prayer.
English - Reply to a letter from English teacher telling him about yourself. At least four paragraphs.
Science - Find 5 hazards in a picture of a science lab, explain why they are dangerous, suggest how to avoid them in future.

DD2 has had one lot of French, one lot for Music, 2 posters (science and ICT), Spanish vocab, English reading and online maths - so quite a lot. Mind you, the school has a rep for putting homework out in clumps - lads one week, much less the next.

DD1 has quite a lot too, but the school does a 3-year GCSE course so that's fair enough. Some of it is proper heavy stuff at last.

DD's secondary doesn't give out any homework for the first full week of Y7.

Normal homework timetable (1-2 pieces every night) starts next week - and until at least Christmas, every piece is due in the following morning [this is interesting on the night she is due 2 pieces of homework but also has 3 hours of dance lessons].

Year 9 DS has had about an hour each night (1-2 pieces, but suibstantial) since the start of term.

No 'makework' of the covering boojks cvariety, fortunately. All 'proper' wrk.

We've not had a huge amount but Monday was the first day so they had no lessons at all on Monday, dd has had one piece a day each taking about 45 minutes each.