How much schoolwork are you doing?

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I’m concerned we aren’t doing enough!

3-4 hours school set tasks, 40 mins exercise, one is also doing touchtyping and the other has picked up one of the free open university courses and is dipping in and out of that.

Should also add that I'm a keyworker doing shifts, a lot of nights at the moment so it's pretty hard to get on top of it all plus dh is wfh. But I'm past feeling guilty, I've beat myself up for all of my parenting life and now I can see that we aren't alone and doing what we can is ok.

Not a tonne as I am still recovering from being pretty poorly with Covid-19. Older two have live lessons and younger two have work on the school website which we dip in and out of through
Out the day. My ASD son can't sit for hours doing work, it would be a melt down every ten minutes so little and often is my strategy which also works for his sister.

We're doing lots of life lesson stuff. Home is not school and whilst strict structure works for some families, it wouldn't work for ours.

Excersise and reading every day are the only things I strictly enforce.

Nothing. I have three at primary school, and I’m saving the school work until we feel desperately bored. Haven’t reached that point yet.

Year 8, doing a timetable as normal. Work set either via Teams or their online platform.

Not a lot. The school sends work through daily that we do but it only takes an hour. The rest of the time they are playing in the garden or on screens. They’re also the most relaxed and happiest they’ve been for ages so I’m not going to push the schoolwork.

15/20 minutes each of maths literacy and exercise. Reading a few times a day.

30 mins on a bad day abd up to 1hr 30 mins on good day. Secondary age dc, who can not fully work independently . I am also wfh.

Dd10 has quite a lot and is busy for the duration of a school day. Dd7 doesn't have so much but I'm adding extra to keep her busy while her sister is so she doesn't get bored. Dd7 is a far more independent learner

Hardly anything

Initially misunderstood this and was just coming on to say: 'Yeah, if honest, I'm totally doing most of their school work. I'd say I'm doing at least 70% of it for them.'

I can't be doing with the agony of watching them build a mediaeval castle out of cereal boxes by themselves. Did also stand over DD writing her book review repeatedly saying: "Just end it with a question. Honestly. That's what will get you the marks! No, don't say what happens at the end! That's a total book review fail!... Shall I just tell you what to write?!"

If I could get a sticker for all my efforts that would make my year, TBH.

Anyway, yes, I see that's NOT what this thread was about.

Year 6 child, we did a couple of hours each day before Easter. We should have started again this week but we haven’t done anything yet. 😬 Shes extremely bright so I’m not stressing about it.

Year 11 son has done some work ready for his A levels but is mainly gaming, exercising and sleeping.

They’re both so chilled.

Not a lot. But were doing g lots of bike riding in the garden. Baking cakes. Laughing. Dancing. Reading.

Our school says don't push it. Just make sure your kids are happy

So that's exactly what we've done!

Year 12 daughter - fairly full timetable but she's at stage school so lots of practical dance and vocal projects to work on. Some live lessons. Works roughly 10 - 4 each day.

Year 8 daughter - full online timetable incl assemblies and registrations 8.45 - 4.00. I teach at her school so she's sometimes taught by me on a different computer in a different room which is very weird.

Year 1 daughter - 40 minutes of English and 40 minutes of Maths taught live through Teams in the mornings (relying on my eldest to set her up and supervise as I'm teaching which I feel a bit bad about!) then just a bit of reading and spelling after I've finished my timetable for the day.

School has published an amazing enrichment programme they can dip in and out of and earn points towards awards.

We try and do lots of dance, walking, theatre streaming, crafts etc at weekends and in the evenings but I'm too stressed and fed up to do a very good job.

I am teaching in a secondary school where we have live lessons as per the normal timetable, excluding a few that cannot be done remotely -ie PE and also tutor time. This gives a structure to the day.
If my own children were at home and the school was not offering lessons I would be inclined to get them to READ -if they do read out of their regular groove they will be massively advantaged when they get back to school. Even if they work their way through Agatha Christie or obsess with one genre it will benefit them hugely.

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DS is doing his normal timetable: live lessons taught via Teams. He's in Yr 12 so I'm very relieved that the school are providing this - not a great time to lose weeks of teaching!

Not as much as should be. Daughter is suffering from terrible anxiety with all this so it’s more important to keep that under control than add more stress. She does around 2/3 hrs a day when ok. None today. She is bright though so will pick it up.

Bloody loads. Kids are happy enough but it’s ruining my life. I do not have the patience for this.

Full daily timetables with evidence to be provided. I have children at very different ages and stages and at different schools, and no one has the skills to suddenly shoulder this independently. I at least have been working at home for many years, and am very used to working through the night, in snatched moments and evenings and weekends around the children.

DS who is Y10 is doing full timetable with some live lessons, so 8.15 to 3.30. Then has homework. He seems happy and likes the routine, so we are not having to pressure him to do it.

DD is in year 1! We are reading every day, doing a bit of maths and a writing activity and that is about it!

@chipsandgin I agree I am full of angst about the sheer amount of work set by the school that isn't getting completed here. I'm doing reading and spellings everyday and the simple maths the school have set but that's it. I have today off and so far we've barely scraped the surface of the work they are behind on. I feel terrible that it's because I'm in work all day 5 days a week.

None we try and fail daily

Yr 2 aged 7. We manage about an hour day. The school upload activity sheets each day for maths, English science which we print off and once completed upload them for the teacher to see

15/20 minutes each of maths literacy and exercise. Reading a few times a day.