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?

What a load of crap.
We do less than 2 hours a day!

I saw that article, it’s nice to have a laugh in the morning.

My secondary school kids are doing 3-4 hours a day. Leaning towards the 3.

If they were in school they’d do 5 hour-long lessons, which is at most 4 hours of learning. And then an hour homework, tops.

Single parent. Working from home. We’re lucky if we do any school work but we manage a long walk together daily and are fed and still sane.

I've been working 10-12 hours a day as single parent. Most days it's bugger all as DD9 won't sit and focus alone.

3 hours seems about right (primary and secondary).

It's nonsense they don't do 6 at school they are on the premises for 6 hours 9am -3pm, take off 1 hour for lunch, 15 minutes break, 10minutes registration, 15 minutes assembly, 5 minutes settling after break and lunch time getting coats on ready for home or getting changed for PE, time waiting for everyone to be quiet I would think 4 hours solid teaching / learning is the max in a well run school with few behavioural problems, also when a child is at school they may have to wait until teacher has spoken to Chloe and James before she can help them, also some children finish work quicker than others so read or illustrate work, while others catch up. So I would say any primary child doing 3 hours work at home is doing as much as in school but what is not happening is learning new stuff and concepts

Our secondary level DC is doing around 5hrs a day, but he's doing it independently as DH and I are both WFH.

Y2 DD1 is doing maybe 2 hours of formal learning a day? On the laptop, sitting with us while we work, in 2x 1hr chunks.

Nursery age DD2 is doing possibly half an hour.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52701850

Here's the link.
You're all very reassuring - thank god for MN.

What do you count?
Watching Bitesize daily? Hers and her sisters one?
Reading her book?
Playing Maths games on the computer?
The geography board games?

We spend 30mins on Maths, Do an English exercise, do Handwriting practice, and reading every day. All in, that's probably 90 minutes or so. But they learn other stuff all the time.

DD is Year 2 and we don't really have a set amount of time everyday.
I try to follow a bit of an eclectic method and make just about everything a learning opportunity. For example she'll help make shopping lists and recipes. So a bag of flour of 200g costs £2 how much would 30g cost? Of we need 60g for recipe, how much is left? Etc.
Country walks and studying flowers and trees and discussing life cycles and activities of animals, bees, farm animals.
When we read, we'll read books a bit older than her and she'll look up any words she doesn't know. She does play some educational games too that the school set her as her official learning time. The rest sneaks in without her noticing.

We're doing roughly 4. Maths and an additional subject in the morning starting about 9:30. Then they're free to run about, go off with their Dad for a bike ride, have lunch etc. Then about 2pm they do English, spellings and reading. Sometimes they'll do another subject if they feel like it. I'm not overly pushing them, but I make sure they do three things a day and let them go at their own pace.

poorer families are only doing 4.5 hours each day with their children whereas wealthier families are doing 6 hours

Oh My Good God!!! Nothing like either of those.
Where did you find this survey?

We do one or two hours here.

Mine is at independent primary, no Zoom lessons here! Tasks set every day are English and maths. Some other curriculum stuff across the week but nothing too onerous. I'm WFH full time though so I'm sure it's the bare minimum that is actually being done

You wouldn't do 4.5 of solid schoolwork in school and less so would you be doing 6.

School is so much different to independent learning, no discussions, questioning etc

I was listening to this on the radio, and thinking it sounded like bullshit. Mine are doing something like two or three hours tops, plus other enriching activities when we fancy: art, gardening, baking, walks with a local history/architecture element (this is mostly pointing at fancy houses and declaring that we'll buy them when we win the lottery, tbh). DD1 would have just finished SATs and be doing more fun stuff, anyway, and DD2 will soon get back in the swing of school when she eventually goes back so I'm not too worried on that front.

Lol at 6 hours.
Mine probably does 2 and a half tops but exercise, watching a bit of bbc bitesize, gardening/baking etc is on top of that. And I’m not working atm so have no excuse.’

5 year old does a lot less due to very limited attention span.

Full report: www.ifs.org.uk/publications/14848

1.5 hours per day total for my Reception aged DD

From everyone I know, those who are doing any work (max 1-2 hours a day) have a SAMP. Those with parents working full time from home aren’t doing any. Primary age.

OK, I found the full report from the IFS here
I will read it later because it does look interesting but I'm very skeptical about the number of hours.
I wonder if they surveyed a bunch of people at the beginning of the lockdown when everyone was super keen?

My P5 (NI), she's not long turned 9 is doing about 2 hours a day, 4 days a week. We have Friday off. Her school uploads videos, lesson plans, work to Google Classroom on a Monday and we aim to have everything done by Thu lunchtime.
If she does the work quicker, she's done for the day. She does the work, I set her up with anything she needs, explain anything new ( dividing decimals drove both of us to drink), go over videos/examples her teachers have sent, mark it and upload it. She does 20 mins reading a day.

She's my youngest, my older ones can work independently.

When you look at actual chart it is 1.5-2.5 hours online rest is other work which includes or art craft etc

My yr1 child gets a load of worksheets sent through for the week, they take less than 2 hours total to do. Most worksheets take less than 5 minutes each to complete.

On top of that she does some reading, writing and crafts.

All in it's probably only 1 and a half hours of 'work' a day but she also does gardening, cooking, cleaning and other 'life skills' that are just as valuable as the sit down learning.

5/6 a day. Poorer family, No zoom lessons just gets up and work through the set work.
Sometimes finish earlier if it’s been quick. Sometimes later if it’s taken longer

My year 5 child is doing around 2 hours. The actual school work is only taking her 30 minutes - an hour max. We fill in an hour with other stuff. Her teacher rang us last week and said she's done the most out of the class too...although he could just be saying that to everyone as I'd find it surprising.