Please fess up, how many hours a day schoolwork are your Primary school juniors doing each day?

[JMAngel1]

Just read a survey on BBC website that said poorer families are only doing 4.5 hours each day with their children whereas wealthier families are doing 6 hours.
My two are year 3 and 5 and we do 1.5 hours in the morning of. maths and english and then 1 hour in the afternoon on their school website looking at history/science/RE powerpoints thatkind of thing.
I thought we were doing a lot!
They do Jo Wickes, creative art time, chores and we go for a walk or cycle so we still fill the school day with activities.

What are your junior primary school children doing each day?

6!
DS is year 3 at an independent school.
Today for example will be:
Joe Wicks 9-9.30
9.30- 10.15 Maths
10.15- 10.45 Music
11-12 English
12-12.30 Spelling test on Zoom
1.30- 2 Learn spellings for next week
2-2.30 PE
That’s quite a heavy day. We normally do 9.30- 2.30 with an hour for lunch and half an hour break.
Timetable and all work set by school.

6 hours? No.

Id say we are doing about 3 in all each day?

Chrisinthemorning - and do they concentrate for 1.5 hours at a time? I struggle to get my 7 yo to last more than 30 mins max.

I saw those stats and thought that sounds high. Some days I reckon it’s only 2 hours we squeeze in; and that’s hard going and feels like a lot at the time (not helped by us both working and also having a preschooler to sort at the same time). I’m sure the real averages are far lower than that for primary school.

OP get off the BBC it's fake news.

My 9 year old is doing maybe an hour a day. I'm working full time so....

6 hours. LOL

Can you link to survey?

About 3 hours DSs Year 1 and Year 4.

6 hours learning is more than they do at school!

I guess it depends what you include though.

We both work. They’re fed, alive and (usually) clean. That’s as much as we can hope for.

1-2 hours for me 6yo. Then something arty/music/educational TV related in the afternoon. It's working for us. She does read for at least two hours a day on top of that as well.

My y4 is set a maximum of 4 hours worth of work from (Independent) school, in practice it's done quicker than that.

It depends what you class as school work, if including Joe Wicks, bike ride as PE, making lunch as home ec etc. Mine craft as creative?? Then he's doing about 6 hours. However really I think he's doing about 3 hours of proper work.

Probably around 3-4 hours. We aim to finish it as early in the afternoon as we can so DS can do what we wants with the rest of the day. Seems to motivate him to get through it.

We are trying to do 4 hours, 10am-12 and 2pm-4 but often we start a bit late or finish a bit early. There's plenty of learning happening outside those times, exercise, baking etc.
I have three children, yr 9, yr 5 and Reception. It's impossible to help them all at the same time, and they're easily distracted. The school are not sending out 6 hours of work each day either.

6?! DS’s teacher (primary 3) is setting them 3 tasks a day - literacy, numeracy and one cross-curricular. They take him 3 hours or less depending on how easy he finds it.

Sometimes we’ll give him extra practice of the concept he’s done that day using workbooks. The rest of the day is playing, going for a walk, reading, maybe playing on Sumdog or spelling games. But none of that is set by the school.

Single parent working 40 hours a week from home. I am doing what I can and not sure these reports help anyone.

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I'm working full time and we have a child with autism so we are prioritising wellbeing...

We do 9-2.30, with hour for lunch and half an hour break time and half an hour Joe Wicks.

About 3hrs, and I spend a lot of that time telling her what she should be doing and repeatedly asking her to start doing it. I also have a Reception child, and neither of them will do anything without one on one attention.

My 5 year old does about ten minutes a day of actual sit at the table schoolwork.

I’m not sure what else they’d be counting as schoolwork? I mean obviously we play games, and bake, and do drawing and all the rest of it.

Even when he’s in school he doesn’t do more than 20 mins a day of sitting still concentrating.

The only children I know of who are doing more than 2-3 hours of schoolwork a day are privately educated and are glued to online classroom sessions all day.

Mine are doing around 2.5 hours. Mostly focusing on Maths and English - other subjects if enthusiasm allows. Some days barely any, some days more.

When I’m working, she spends most of the day on Bitesize. When I’m not, we may do an hour of study each day (I’m studying too). I’d much rather she play.

My two are in years 1 and 2. We are doing around three hours a day. I used to work in KS1 and I can tell you that three hours of work at home on a 1:2 ratio is equal to a full day at school. Due to the number of children and the logistics of it all, things take a lot longer at school.

What nonsense. We have a six figure income and our DC do school work from 9 to 1pm - with a half hour break in the middle, and that includes Joe Wicks.

DS is in Y1 and we've usually finished the week's work set by the school by Wednesday. This is the not the case with DD, who's in y3 - we manage to complete all the English and maths, and a bit of science/history or geography, but never manage to complete everything set. I take my hat off to anyone who does, there's bloody loads!

I'm happy we're doing ok and the kids on top of what they should be.

Reception age. 1-2 hours.

5 year old...an hour...maybe two on a good day? I'm sure that's absolutely rubbish - talking to my mum friends from school I feel as though we're doing the most!

If you include exercise (PE), reading and art or speech and drama practice (they have exams coming up in June) then my 9 year olds are doing 5 1/2 hours a day.

If you only include actual work - maths, written english (reading is really not work to them) and school topic work - then it’s more like 3 1/4 hrs.

I recognise that even this is beyond what a lot of their classmates will be doing.

I have one in Y4 who is at a private prep school. They're having a reduced timetable delivered remotely, which consists of five hours of teaching per day. This is very variable though as in that we have two games lessons and while some lessons take all or most of the time allocated (English, say or Maths), others like Art and Music only take about 15 mins typically. So each day I'd say he's doing about 3-4 hours of schooling.