To sack of "home school" and enjoy the sunshine

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

DD's (7) school have been sending home about 5 hours a day worth of work to parents (they actually stipulate the time they expect to be spent on each task). I am WFH half a day for 4 days, and have a 3yo too. so do what I can but haven't been able to nearly do it all - the teacher is now asking for evidence to be sent at the end of each day. I haven't sent any at all yet! We've done Joe Wicks this morning and they're now colouring in as I try to catch up on emails - but today it's gorgeous outside and warm already. WIBU to sack of the school work today and have us all enjoy the garden? I can work outside while they play. I would have to muster the bravery to tell the teacher sorry it's too much work so we played instead 😬

Enjoy the weather and your time together. Save the schoolwork for a rainy day.

Have you told the teacher you're wfh and have a 3yo too? Communication usually helps with these things (unless they're totally unreasonable).
You can learn things outside too 👍🏻

Lucky you having sunshine! It's a bit grey here in my bit of Scotland. I'd sack it off too tbh

Do what you want as long as your kids aren't screechy fuckers jumping on trampolines and kicking balls at fences from 8.30 in the morning like they do round here.

@somegoodnewsforonce yes the teacher knows, it seems they still expect work to be done somehow though!

That’s ridiculous. Our children are stressed and disturbed, we’re trying to work from hole and may be looking after several children.4-5 hours of work a day is ridiculous and I’d point this out to the teachers.

(Ours is setting lots through online platforms but the platforms keep crashing)

Do what you want as long as your kids aren't screechy fuckers jumping on trampolines and kicking balls at fences from 8.30 in the morning like they do round here

😂 no trampoline and they can be screechy but not a patch on the kids either side of us!

YY snale it wasn't fun yesterday trying to respond to my manager whilst trying and failing to log in to Emile education because it crashed!

Have an inset day 🙂

We are not doing any work sent from school.

Ds has done a few bits from school (he's 13). I'm not forcing him to so anything, he's doing it because he wants to

Go for it. WIth individual attention your daughter will be learning far far more quickly at home than she did at school. She doesn't need to be doing anywhere near five hours a day. That's ridiculous.

Are you being asked to send in work which the teacher will mark and give feedback on? If not, and this "asking for evidence" is just a way of policing what you do at home, then that is silly. At this time YOU are educating your child with the support of the teacher, and you should do it in the way which works best for your family. You aren't answerable to the school.

Primary school teacher we have set work and sent home books to do it in - I expect less than half of my class will do any work and a few in my class will have lost the books in a bush on way home last Friday.

I will support my 8 year old with some maths and literacy when I'm not working but he isn't getting much done as he is home with older sisters who have their own work to do year 11dd has quite a bit she must do as teacher assessment will be important so she is the only one I'm nagging.

My school is sending work home, enough for a school day so to speak, but the first email home on the system said
-they know children work at different speeds, the time given is the maximum they want the child to spend on it

• spread it out how they wish

And the teachers were told to mark / assess what did come back but don’t go chasing for it. Head has assumed they’ll be 4 types of parent:
Some will do none
Some will do some
Some will do all
Some will do all plus extra (asking for extra or coming up with their own extension

We’ve been told not to push. But it is an independent infant school. Setting enough yes, chasing it no. Year 2 have essentially got some projects to do which cover the various subjects but they can do it as they please.

5 hours a day at age 7!?? I would just do a couple of hours at most.

Mine are secondary age and and doing a couple of hours when they feel like it, otherwise they’ve been doing gardening with my adult DD, playing Animal Crossing, watching movies and chatting to friends/instagram.

I would ignore the request to send “evidence xx.”

If it ever comes up - which it won’t - tell the school your internet was down.

I think an hour or 2 set learning is fine, I think any more is ridiculous tbh. Add in an educational TV programme and that’s a few hours per day. I’d be ignoring the school tbh. I’d thank them profusely for sending work but state you’ll be doing it at your own pace depending on the weather and work (for those also working from home at the moment). I wouldn’t be sending evidence.

Just do it as and when you can. Explain to the teacher that you are wfh and have a 3 year old. These are unprecedented times and things are far from normal.

I have a DS in year 1 and so far all he has done is play the phonics and maths games on the computer because I have had a bereavement this week so I am dealing with that on top of everything else.

I am a teacher and I am expecting children to come back having not done everything so I will plan for that.

Blimey that is excessive. Also it’s Easter Hols soon which we shall be observing as usual! My DD is 5 so I’m not sure about seven year olds but we are doing a lot of “learning through play” aka making the best of it

School work can piss off for the time being imo.Ds has been awarded a 4 week Easter break by his teacher..me!!

We did some craft this morning and now he is playing on his tablet while mummy has a cup of tea.

Next we might do some times tables for 15 mins.

In a few hours he can read his book, that's it.

Just chill out and let them play in the sunshine. Teachers will not care.

We’re doing interesting bits, if we feel like it. Mainly doing garden time and tv time though.

I have an almost two yr old, we are getting very little done other than a bit of maths. The oldest dc is managing to do some on his own. We have spent most of the last two days in the garden.

Do what you can. We are in this for the long haul and we need to keep ourselves sane. Kids need to do some work but with the Easter holidays around the corner, you could even do bits and bobs then too.

They can always catch up over the Easter school
Holidays. I would definitely be making the most of the good weather.