Dd started year 7 in September and she has not brought home one exercise or text book. All homework is issued on Show My Homework and she normally has to print out a worksheet or write answers on a piece of lined paper. She has to either answer the questions from memory or look up the answers on the Internet. It has started to become a problem with her science homework because often the information on web sites either vary or they may be too simple or too in-depth and not suitable for year 7. I have emailed dd's science teacher to ask which resources she can use to find the answers to her homework questions but she hasn't replied. When dd handed in her homework only partially completed, the teacher told her it was ok. She also suggested using BBC Bitesize. We have tried that and can find some of the information she needs but not all of it.
Last term she was given science homework which was 'revise all topics on sound'. That was all it said. There was no list of topics to revise, no text book, no exercise book to refer back to and no documents attached containing all the information they needed to revise.
Is it normal for schools not to allow students to take text books home? If so, where does your dc normally get the information they need for homework and revision?