how many hours of English/maths/sciences do your dc do a week in secondary school?

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We are from England and wanted to compare it to my dc school which is a british school abroad and I don’t think they’re doing enough to get ok grades tbh. 2 hours in each subject a week currently.

6 hours a fortnight maths, 7 hours a fortnight english and 6 hours a fortnight science.

What year? Or at least what keystage?
The hours per week went up quite a lot once GCSEs started, because there were less subjects to fit in!!

Per fortnight:
KS3 En & maths 7, science 6

KS4 eng & maths 9, science 14 (would be 9 if doing combined, extra 5 for triple)

I should have put year 7! But wouldn’t mind comparing higher years as deciding whether or not to return to uk maybe based on the school.

Year 7 fortnightly:
Science 6hrs
English 8hrs
Maths 6hrs

Scotland, S2 or Y8 I think (second year of secondary school). Each period is 50 mins and the timetable is the same every week.
4x English
4x Maths
3x Science

4hrs English (2 language, 2 literature), 4hrs Maths, 3hrs Science.

In yr10/11 its 5hrs English(2 gcses) , 4 hrs maths (1 gcse), 6hrs science (2/3 gcses)

6 taught sessions of maths + English per week plus 1 x 30 min homework of each per week.
Yr 8

Per fortnight
Science 9hrs
Maths 8hrs
English 8hrs

Yr 7 has 5 maths lessons, 3 science and 4 English per week.
Yr8 has 5 maths, 1 maths/art (technical drawing), 2 science and 4 English.

My Year 7 has a 2 week timetable with:
8 hours English
6 hours Maths
6 hours Science.

Year 10 has this over 2 weeks:
7 hours English
7 hours Maths
9 hours science (3 hours of each) plus 2 hours extra after school as he’s doing triple science.

Does look like maybe they’re not doing enough then.

What are they doing instead? I don’t think hours of bums in seats necessarily means anything. For example, is this an international school with good attendance and behaviour? Do they spend more time doing art, music, languages?

I don’t know how many actual hours my Y7 spends in each subject without having her timetable in front of me, but I can assure you that probably 1/4 to 1/3 of that time is probably spent dealing with behavioural issues, reviewing material missed from poor attendance, etc. We had parents evening a few weeks ago and her maths teacher was shocked when she looked up to see dd had done 100% of the set homework for the term (as in apparently most don’t). For history the other day, they had to bring in revision materials to show they had been revising for the end of term assessment. Dd said she was the only one who did it and everyone else got detention.

If your dc are in a good school with good attendance, good behaviour, small class sizes and with parents who actually expect them to learn and support them, I think they are probably at an advantage even if they don’t spend 4 hr a week in English.

Year 7 weekly
maths 5 x 40 minutes = 3 hours 20 mins
English 5 x40 minutes 3 hours 20 minutes
2 x 40 minutes of each of chemistry biology, physics_ 4 hours

I think it also depends on the quality of the teaching and class sizes (which I imagine would be quite small in an international private school) and how much self-directed learning they are supposed to do. Mine, for example, never have homework. So an equivalent 2 hours homework per week and 2 hours of efficient teaching would put them at the same as my DC.

@mindutopia & @Lioncubhearted thats a good point. The class sizes are small and all of the dc seem to be reasonably behaved. They do things like gardening and cooking instead. A lot less academic than any school I attended in the U.K. dc loves it. And they have amazing extra curricular activities but I do worry that in the end they’ll need good gcse over all the extras.
teaching is hit and miss. Some British teachers who are great and some other nationalities that can be really old fashioned in comparison to uk teaching standards.

8 hours of each a fortnight (year 10)

he also does extra of each (2 of maths and English and one science a fortnight) in place of one options block to help strengthen in each z