To ask how much homework your Year 1 child gets

[mummyneedssweets]

State school, no special needs, inner city London.
I'm trying to work out if my child's school is being excessive

non - selective pre-prep outer london( very good academic achievements): lust of soellings (10-12 words) that need to be written 4 times each. 3 reading books per week, 2 library books. we get termly voluntary tasks, but they are fun and completely voluntary

Someone else asked the same recently

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/primary/3479817-Amount-of-work-at-home-Y1-seems-unrealistic

Different reading book every night
Spellings (5 words) to be practised every day and tested once a week
They’ve just started introducing some basic additions/subtractions/times tables for some pupils

Seems a good amount to me

We have one maths pack a week, which is mostly just number games. 3 reading books and 10 spellings. Sometimes we get extra reading if DS has whizzed through them. We do a little each night before bed, no more than about 10 minutes, it works fine.

Thanks for posting the other thread.
It's clear I am not being Unreasonable.
We get
Book x 2 week (fine )
Maths activity sheet
Comprehension sheet
Spellings
Sounding out words
And a full project every week. A project can be 'write a story about a dinosaur and be sure to be clear what he eats, whether he is a omnivores, herbivore etc make sure it has a beginning and an end' .
The whole thing takes a minimum of two and a half hours. She's achieving well and is ok to do it - it just really digs in to the weekend when to be frank we could be actually going to see the dinosaurs at the museum.
Given out on Friday (we have swimming) and back in on Tuesday. I work late Mondays and they are in after school so no chance then.
Don't even get me started on my Year 3 !

Well as far as I know homework isn’t compulsory in primary school so you could just opt out of the bits you won’t want to do?

We get a sheet of sums, spag questions and spelling practice each Friday to do for the following Friday, which is fine. Once a term they'll get a project or extended homework but they have quite a lot of autonomy with it.

Oh yes, we also have reading books but they aren't compulsory homework.

We get a maths book sent home every night with 4 questions to answer. Takes ds1 about 5 minutes max. Also advised to read his book for 10 minutes a night. Book changed when child requests.
That amount is way too much op.

That is ridiculous for year 1. The only thing of any use is the reading and possibly the maths.
By giving that much homework, parents might not feel they have enough time for reading every night, which is the most important thing.

We just have reading books. There are some optional online maths games but we dint often do them...my son plays with numbers in his head very often anyway.

I am not a fan of homework at all and so far we don’t do any school work at the weekends as a rule (We read at breakfast Monday-Friday). Your little ones homework seems hugely excessive to me, and I have taught year one for nearly ten years. As you say, you could be spending that time far better. I would suggest you tell school she’s not doing it!! My sons homework steps up a lot next year and I feel a similar conversation might happen!!

Reading diary, with class points rewarded if they read 4 or more times a week. Half term project / activity and that's it. Even my year 2 DS only has reading diary and 4 spellings a week to learn. Am now wondering if my DCs school is not the norm?

DS in Year 1 at a good rated state school. He only gets proper homework in the school holidays which is usually maths problems. The rest of the time he is just expected to practice reading and spellings.

I'm happy with this as I don't want him doing loads of homework at such a young age. There's too much pressure on young children as it is.

1 reading book per week and then optional activities sent home on an A4 sheet that's glued into a big book. We've done 2 or 3 of those so far. Between sport, swimming and all the bloody kids parties there is no time for homework at the weekends!

We get one sheet of either spellings or maths (takes 10 minutes) and 3 reading books a week.

Blimey. We get one book a week for her to read and another for us. No spellings no projects (thankfully)

Reading book and spellings for a weekly test. Spellings were based on ability and varied between 10 and 15. There were various online educational things that were optional. (Neither of mine ever did them and it wasn't a problem).

One reading book at the weekend and a task of either writing or numbers which doesn’t need to go back to school.
State school in the north west.
By contrast not too far away my friends little one has 3 reading books a week, a list of 8 spellings, a termly project and the odd worksheet. That school is an under performing school in what is seen as a more deprieved area (despite only being 1 mile from my DS school)
We do lots of our own homework (or none at all) to find a right balance

Sorry we got a reading book every day until they moved on to longer chapter books. I always finished the book which took 10-30 minutes (as the books got longer) but they were clear that if DC was tired or couldn't manage it all for whatever reason it was fine.

I just wonder how the parents who don't speak English manage?
I went to a Russell group uni so did my DH.
I don't remember any homework at all in primary except spelling, timestable and reading

Ours get a small amount but we very very rarely do it. never have bothered during primary school. Waste of time

One reading book per week, maths questions on A4 sheet, phoneme excercise and common word revision. Also Manga High online maths games. There’s online excercises to go wit the reading too, but can’t get my DS to look at them at all. This is P2....too much in my opinion!

I would just not do it. There is no evidence that homework in primary school improves overall attainment so it's a waste of time. Some reading at home is obviously worthwhile but sure you would do that anyway. Kids need downtime and family time as well as school and clubs etc so I think this is way too much. Just tell the school you don't have time for anything you aren't comfortable with.

Two worksheets a week plus spellings plus a different reading book every night.

Over Christmas the teacher set 14 worksheets justifying it by saying they had 14 days off . She didn’t do any of it.

4 reading books a week (but only changed if they are read and reading diary signed)
Children reads with teacher once a week and in ability group reading session once a week.
Spelling test once a week, 6 words or so
Optional maths practice (slip of paper which has a few maths questions on, school don’t check if you do it or not)
Optional maths game to take home (you can sign up for this)
News book - write/draw weekly news (what you did at the weekend) to stand up and share with your class once a week
Class top literacy group (5 kids or so) also have a “book review” notepad to write their own book reviews, this can be as often as they like, it is looked at by teacher and sometimes used in class.

“Outstanding” rated school. The only things that they basically want us to do are the reading and the spelling.