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Has your child’s school set homework for the summer?

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ILiveInSalemsLot · 19/07/2019 17:15

Ours have set reading from a list and preparing for a presentation in the first week back.
I’m not too fussed about it as the more books for my not very enthusiastic readers, the better.
I’d be interested to know what other schools do.

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TheFirstOHN · 19/07/2019 17:25

Very little actual homework has been set (apart from in Art) but they all plan to do their own independent study.

Each of them has (separately) decided to do about an hour each day over the holidays (apart from when we are away) e.g.

  • Humanities: going through notes from the past year and making sure they are complete.
  • English: learning quotes from set texts and practising paragraphs discussing literary technique and analysis.
  • MFL: self-testing vocabulary.
  • Sciences: learning definitions and practising questions.
  • Maths: practising questions.

The impetus is coming from them, not from the school or from me.

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