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?

We do the school maths every day that takes about half an hour.

I've sacked off all the other school subjects because the content was crap and DS2 (10) was getting frustrated.

We do about 2hrs 11+ work a day, and he reads for about half an hr.

So that's like 3hrs max. Then we run with the dog, paint stones, bake, watch TV or he goes on X-box while I do chores around the house.

@JaineyMac we've got a similar pool and just bought swim bungees so DS can practice strokes etc. Not sure how effective it is but it's a right old laugh

The most we manage is 3.5 and that feels like a bloody good day. Usually it’s closer to 2. I’m WFH full time and DH is out at work full time.

How today actually went :
8.50-9.30 Maths
9.30-10.10 I did Joe Wicks while DS watched while building Lego
10.20-10.45 Music- school set a worksheet to do while listening to a piece of music
11-11.35 English comprehension
Ate lunch
Zoom spelling test
1-1.15 New spellings practice
1.30-2 PE (but actually produce a poster about healthy eating)
2-5 Stop Motion and Minecraft time.
I make that 2.5 hours of actual work with lots of trampoline breaks.
He will read this evening- he’s a free reader and is going through books at a rate of knots. We are about to finish the Hobbit as a joint book and he’s just reading the storey Treehouse books independently.

We’re not doing any, we dip in every now and then.

Dd does about 2-3 hours a day of actual work, but when you add in breaks (as she does, regularly) it takes most of the day.
The work she would do in an hour of maths at school doesn't take an hour at home because she's got a 1-1 adult helping her (I am also working, but can take a few minutes to get her started and then help if she gets stuck between answering emails). She doesn't need to sit on the carpet listening to examples once she's got it, she doesn't have the chance to chat to her mates (although she makes a good attempt at chatting to me instead of working), she doesn't have other children behaving badly to distract her (or indeed have the chance to behave badly and distract anyone else). Each individual distraction at school may only take a minute or two, but not having them adds up to more learning.

I am not covering everything the school sends home, and they have said they don't expect every family to cover everything as we're all in different situations. We are prioritising maths, English and whatever else is on the activity list that dd fancies (we did art on Friday, French on Thursday, today we did some science and cooking).

4yr old and 12 yr old, hr a day (mon-fri) of educational work, max. They are out playing in garden most of day and few hrs o gadgets, be it minecraft / tv/fortnite

30 minutes if we are lucky. I’m a frontline worker and they are alive. That’s the best I can do!

Schoolwork in the mornings, 9-12 then free time in the afternoon, which includes reading, playing in the garden, board games, puzzles etc - not just screens though they get those too. I am working full time from home and DH works full time out of the home so that’s as good as it’s getting and if school don’t like it they need to up their game!

I'm doing 2 hours a day max with my y3 child. I'm working full time (more than that) and I'm a lone parent.

hardly any enriching activities after that - sometimes art with her siblings, sometimes a dog walk. Often Minecraft, roblox or gatcha videos.

I feel proud of what I'm managing with her and proud of myself.

About an hour of 'proper' school work. But all sorts of other things like baking, nature walks, learning a new language etc etc. And my kids happily read for hours so more than happy with that.

3ish hours, but I put other things in too, to support the work - sometimes music, sometimes DT, etc. We go for walks and some of DCs clubs stream live for the kids to join in.

My DC are yr 3, 5 & 6.

I'd say they do 2 - 3 hrs.

Our daily work isn't sent through until 9.30am then it takes me up to an hour to print it & organise them (1 laptop) so they play (trampoline, xbox, lego etc) then do about an hour or so then have lunch then a bit more until they finish. No more routine than that as it suits us.

They do maths & literacy daily but then have topic work which sometimes lasts a few days. They all read & do times tables online (school can see when they log in).

We don't go out for a walk every day as sometimes they just want to play together or chill out in their rooms which I'm fine with.

I'm often flitting between all 3 although DS7 gets the most attention as they other two are more independant learners. DS7 has come on loads being at home & having 1-1.

I'm a teacher and I'm only doing about 1-2 hours per day with my dd 7. But that doesn't include any activities like baking or arts and crafts etc.
Every day we do;
Reading
Handwriting Practice
A page of maths- with my input before it obviously.
Phonics work/spellings etc

Then most days we do arts and crafts, lego, baking, games (uno, rummikubs, memory games etc)

I'm not panicking...

Jainey that sounds fantastic! Although I’m no good in cold water even with a wet suit on, brrrr. Hot choc and wrapped up I could do!

About 40 minutes each. Year 2 and 4.

And I’m a teacher.

Ks2 in small state primary:

7.45am reading hour
8.45am google meet with teacher
9am PE with Joe
Playtime
10am maths/english/spag task (30 mins)
10.30am main task set by teacher
12.00-13.00 lunch break
13.00-14.30 finish main task and do extension work.
14.30 IT games-based maths/spelling
15.00 finish.

Sometimes dd doesn’t finish the main task - today she was going until 4pm. She chooses to do her reading hour before school rather than after.

6hrs????

Ds3 (6) does 40 minutes of maths, 40 minutes of English, 20 minutes of reading and 40 minutes of another subject - today was the sinking of the Titanic.

I think they must be including a lot of dicking around time. I suppose I could say his colouring of a Pokémon picture was art and time spent bouncing on the trampoline
was p.e. and I could call the time on hourofcode computer science. I could call the time I spent explaining why he needs to tidy his room as - I don't know - civic duty? And he helped make his sandwich so ... home - economics??

I have a year 6.
She's doing 5 mins a day, if that.
There's been house smashing meltdowns over it so I've stopped mentioning it now. She's happy and talking to friends over WhatsApp which is the best I can hope for. I'm still working three days a week but she doesn't want to know on my days off either.

My secondary teen is doing a full day and follows his timetable.

This can't be right, can it? Is there one person on this thread declaring 6 hours of learning per day or even 4.5 hrs? Maybe the parents on Netmums are leading the charge?

3-4 hours at most

Dd is certainly doing 6 hours of learning. She is currently doing some maths before bed.

My year 5 is doing between 1.5 and 2 hours generally. Today was only half an hour. School haven’t set any work so I guess they’re not expecting us to do any work at all, never mind 6 hours!

I'm amazed by these high numbers of hours. It must be so intense compated to actual school.
The LA told us 5 hours of 1:1 education is the same as FT school so we do an hour a day.
We do other things like make stuff and go for walks too.

Year 1 (6 year old DD) does about 2 - 3 hours
9.30 - watches bitesize tv episode for the day.
10- 12 - completes set school work. Usually english, maths and then either science/history/art etc
If she fancies doing some more she goes on laptop to play around on reading eggs for maths and english skills.
But she is usually fairly happy to do this most days if she is having an off day we pull it back a bit