To think that 1-2 hours of revision A DAY is too much for year 7s?

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I've just got a letter from our secondary school, stating that students should be revising "1-2 hours every day, in short 20 min bursts, using the techniques mentioned above." (Honestly, that last bit makes it harder!)

IABU to think that this is too much for year 7s? (Not to mention SEN kids. Mine are undiagnosed, but still.) I'm just not sure when they are supposed to find the time!

(Our circumstances won't be the same as everyone else's, but they are:
They get back from school at 4pm. They are encouraged to do lots of extracurricular activities which they do a fair number of and these take up time on three days after school. They also get a fair chunk of homework that they are expected to do during the week (at a guess, 3-4 hours a week on average, but it takes my kids longer). So there are only two days where they get a full 2 hours between school and tea time, and they can't go straight into school work once they get home, and after that they are often trying to do homework. So, I'm not sure when in the day they are supposed to revise, when they also require a family mealtime, and wind-down time before bed (they still go up at 7:30 but read for 20 mins before going to sleep).)

I'm not ever going to prioritise revision over good sleep or taking time out to de-stress or whatever after school... so I'd be interested to know what other people do at this stage of school.

I’m a secondary school teacher. Our KS3 students have end of year assessments coming up directly after half term. Nothing has yet been mentioned to them about revision. About 2 teaching weeks ahead of them we as teachers are told that any work set should be revision and no new homework (although there should be individual revision tasks set or at least one topic at a time so it’s not just a general “revise” instruction which is difficult.) In my view, 1 hour a day of revision or homework (not both) is a reasonable expectation for most in Y7 - it is genuinely helpful for them to get into good habits and one a hour a night is more sensible than 3 hours one night and nothing the next. 2 hours is pushing it a bit, I think.
it also depends when the exams / assessments are - revising too early can mean they peak too early and are over it by the time the tests actually arrive.
Teachers of all subjects should also be showing students how to revise or setting them revision tasks - if there isn’t enough guidance about what to do, get your child to ask.

Is it a private school highly performance driven, op? What are they 'revising' for at that age? The homework set at that age is normally enough to reinforce their learning for any in-year progress tests. I was speaking to my Y8 ds recently about how much revision he'll need to do for GCSEs, revision timetables, and how to focus effort. I told him 1-2 hours per day in small chunks of about 20 mins. That's for GCSEs. So yanbu.