Y7 Homework in the first full week

Dd has something for each subject. She was a bit

DD2 has had very little. The thing that has taken the longest was art.

DS2 (yr 7) has had:

Science x2
RE
German
maths
English x2
Geography
Computing

Phew! As well football x3, hockey, climbing, basketball... I am exhausted just thinking about it.

DS1 (yr 9) has hardly opened his books.

Difference DS2 at private (non-selective) and DS1 at good but chilled State which hands out projects which he does at a rush at the last minute.

Think somewhere in the middle would be good!

Mine has had about the same over the past week (which is DD1's first full week of school):

French - learn song & vocab
- more vocab
- worksheet (reviewing two lots of vocab & extending)

Science - cut & paste lab apparatus work
- worksheet describing results you first have to graph yourself

ICT - worksheet related to using excel spreadsheets/ including answering questions about a spreadsheet table

Math - write a paragraph about what makes a good mathematician

English - worksheet about personality, goals & what you want to be when you grow up. Some questions short sentence answers - others can be a paragraph or two.

PSHE/ SKILLS - design a poster explaining what makes good teamwork

there may have been one or two small things - finishing up worksheets she started in class (in one case part of class missed for music lesson).

DD1 still learning to remember to write down things in her planner - but talking through her day with me & showing me notebooks often reminds her.

Still very novel to have homework - primary rarely sent any home - so she's really excited. Lots of using coloured pencils & pens to decorate homework as well.

I think the longest homework day was Weds - about 1 hour - but partly that was my fault - I started looking at what she was doing & her new school books.

Hope the enthusiasm for work continues. So far she's enjoying it - I think it makes her feel 'very grown up'.