Too much homework?

[venusmay]

My dd is in Y3. She gets 2 pages of Maths and English homework every Thursday to be handed in on Monday. She's too tired to do it on Thursday and Friday and Saturdays are our 'rest' evenings so we end up doing all the work on Sunday evening. There's always a big meltdown over the sheer amount of work. We then have to learn the spellings for a test during the week. I find it very stressful!

AiBU in thinking that this is too much homework for a child of this age?

Why do you do it in the evening ? I think it's hard because you attempt it in one go tbh

Personally I find weekends after breakfast are a good time to do it because they are watered, fed and alert. Plus once they are done they have the chance to get on with the rest of the day.

I would just get into the habit of doing it first thing on a Saturday morning to get it done

My dc is year 4 and with the arrival of a new head teacher this year came a new level of homework. He now gets 10 spellings each Friday for a test on Wednesday, 2 homework sheets, normally maths and English each week, reading expected 5 days a week plus a trembly topic sheet where the parents are expected to make activities to imbed the learning they do at school. It’s an insane amount for an 8 year old and something we just could not commit to doing every week. I spoke to his teacher and said reading is always done every day but the rest will be depending on how long it takes. Ds takes 5-10 minutes each night after tea to do a small amount. It gets stuck into his homework book each Tuesday regardless of how much is completed and his teacher has never complained. The week they sent a world map to colour I didn’t even get him to do it as colouring has no learning benefit. It’s an absolute joke in my opinion and seems to be more of a box ticking exercise than anything of real learning value

That should say termly topic sheet

@Heruka

What age is Y3 (I’m in Scotland so different terms). I think in our country as a whole we tend towards too much homework and formal learning young so I agree with you in a sense, but I think you need to adjust your routine so it’s a bit every day, leaving it all til Sun is the problem and I’m sure the school wouldn’t expect this.

Rising 8.

As PP said there is no evidence that homework in primary school helps learning. In Wales it's not compulsory in primary schools.

DD2 is also Y3.

Homework is given out on a Thursday, handed in on a Tuesday, so she has an extra day.

She has:
Daily spellings (x10)
Daily reading
Daily times tables
An additional task (maths or English)
1 or 2 online maths tasks
Plus she has to write each spelling word out 3 times and then write in them sentences.

Written down, it seems a lot!

As PP have suggested, we break it down into manageable daily chunks.

Asking the school to move the days they set homework is unreasonable, but it's unfortunate the days to do homework clash with your extra curricular activities.

Can some work be done at after school club? In KS2 children shouldn't need to be monitored.

Can tennis / swimming be moved to different days?