Are kids not doing the home learning?

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I may be a little naive, but my kids schools have been ok with setting work and/or Skype lessons to keep things going. We've moaned about some of the work but mostly plodded along with it.

My oldest completed an end of year science assessment last week and the feedback after marking mentioned that 67 pupils had completed it and 141 had not.

My youngest attended a primary transition day and found that most of the kids in her bubble hadn't been bothering with the work.

I knew that some kids may not have access to the right technology or support to finish the work, but I was shocked at how many. Is this happening everywhere?

Mine are at primary so a bit different but most of the parents I know have been working full time alongside trying to home educate (primary is a bit harder to just let them get on with it) so there hasn’t been a huge amount of home learning going on.

My situations a bit different because dds primary haven't set any work. I've been sourcing stuff online for her to do, but I know that a lot of the other parents haven't.

We started off really well but this half term the school have stopped setting online work other than times table rockstar and gave out one worksheet which we finished in a couple of days. We've had nothing marked and no feedback on online work so we're floundering tbh. We're finding bits to do and signed up to Night Zookeper, doing french on Duolingo etc but I've no idea at this stage what we should be focusing on, and if school aren't telling us then there isn't much we can do.

My child has had full online learning (private school) but her state school mates have done whatever has been assigned. They definitely seem to have stepped up in the last few weeks too. The problem seems more lack of anything given rather than reluctance to do any work on the part of the students.

I provided fairly comprehensive remote learning via an online classroom. Out of a class of 32 around 1/2 engaged at all and only around 1/4 actually submitted work.

I have a child with Dyslexia, he needs 121 help with most of his work and has a lot of specialist help when he is in school.
Home learning is a whole new ball game. Its so hard trying to help him. I don't have enough time (WFH FT), or the skills to be able to help him properly. Its so hard. He has missed LOADS of work - we plan to continue working through his work over the summer. I think some people are muddling their through this as best as they possibly can. It might not be ideal but its all they can do.

My 11yr old hasn't done a thing. Barely read, not watched BBC bitesize or baked or done anything at home. She has been violent and impossible to work with.
I have let the school know.

We've been trundling along as well with the work the school has set and have done most of it, although not submitted everything.

We're seriously over it now though and limping to the end of term.

I teach secondary. I was getting about 60-70% work returned. It definitely dropped off a couple of weeks ago when most parents went back to work, though.

I have been furloughed so have been able to keep ds (7) engaged and working at his school work.

If I hadn’t been there full time, I doubt he would have persevered with half of it.

It must have been horrendous, almost impossible for parents who were trying to work full time while home school.

Our school set work daily but no expectation to submit anything. My DD is yr 2 and we've done none of it as myself and DH are both working full time from home and it's impossible. Since half term she's been in educare, they aren't doing actual work, not even what the school is setting for those at home, so all seems pointless to me.

Surely it's up to each children? Some will do, some won't.

Mine havent been doing anything. Tbh the school havent set anything that wasnt online and I wfh full time at the moment so I couldn't even if I want to. Mine are only 6 and 8 though. If they were old enough to get on with it and find support ect from teachers I would have expected them to.

School has set work but with a 9yo with dyslexia, dyspraxia and ASD and a 7yo who just isn't very mature, we've been doing Bitesize since Easter. School know and are of the something is better than nothing attitude.

The work hasn't been consistent from one of the teachers and until June was in an incessesible format so it was better to just stick with a regular format from Bitesize for both children.

Not now, in Scotland we're on official School Holidays!!

My primary kids have been doing stuff but not submitting everything by any stretch - it's a bit like survival here tbh
I am also not particularly worried about them falling too far behind, they are all at top end of their year academically and age wise and I figure it will come out in wash. My y7 12yo has been submitting everything and doing the extension tasks for everything.

Out of my class of 30 Yr 4s, 29 have handed in copious books and folders of all the work set since March 20th. (we're trying to find out what's happening with Child no 30, as he's normally a conscientious little thing).
I have been overwhelmed (and frankly surprised!) by the effort the majority of them have put in - maybe half a dozen or so have been a bit slapdash and selective with what they've done, but the rest have done brilliantly. My bottom line was that if they did nothing else at all, to please keep up with reading and their times tables.
I've given them enthusiastic feedback throughout (if they've emailed stuff in) and written remarks on the paper copies I've received.

My eldest has hit the wall with it today. I think that's a pretty good effort to be fair. Thank God the holidays start on Friday.

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My eldest has hit the wall with it today. I think that's a pretty good effort to be fair. Thank God the holidays start on Friday.

Hear hear!! We have set a little bit of stuff for this week, but it's pretty light really. I wouldn't have an issue at all if they didn't complete it; it's kind of an optional extra. Those kids in school are mucking about playing really.

We’ve done what we can (7 year old in year three) but as we’ve had to work as well, ‘what we can’ has been exceptionally limited. My daughter can read and draw independently, but really needs proper supervision, support and encouragement for everything else, and that’s just not possible when you have to do a demanding job at the same time.

We’ve had regular calls from the teacher, who has tried to reassure us, and I’ve decided not to feel guilty about it as I don’t have the emotional bandwidth for any more stress.

I’m bloody praying schools reopen in September.

DS (year 6) did everything and more up until he went back to school 3 weeks ago. His enthusiasm had more than waned by half term though. He was only able to go back every other week and the middle week was a nightmare. He couldn’t get back into sitting in front of his computer. So we called his last day of school on Friday the end of primary school and this week is now the holidays (for him anyway).

I definitely feel like the enthusiasm has waned over the last couple of weeks. But if lots of the kids haven't been able to do any work at all, then I understand why people are desperate for kids to get back to school.

I teach secondary and have reception and school nursery age children. On the whole I am getting around 30 out of 32 handing in work from my school, year 9 and year 8, core subject.

A lot of my childrens friends have said they have done nothing with their children, one who is now panicking and trying to catch up.

I have had to work alongside them most of the time, luckily I have not been required to do live lessons as that would have been a challenge but meetings etc have happened and mine have done all the work alongside me doing my job. So I get really annoyed at those who say they have to work so can't do it. One friend has 3 adults in the house, 1 working and child has done nothing!

I am really worried for mine returning to school having done what was expected.

meetings etc have happened and mine have done all the work alongside me doing my job. So I get really annoyed at those who say they have to work so can't do it.

Maybe you would feel less annoyed if you reminded yourself that people have different jobs than you and different children than you?

It’s lovely if you’ve been able to support home learning while simultaneously doing another job, really it is, but that has just not been possible to anything other than a bare minimum standard for many of us.

Mine have but to be honest got a brick wall with it about two weeks ago.

I have two friends who are having to work from home and told the school they will be doing zero homeschooling.