How much schoolwork are you doing?

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I’m concerned we aren’t doing enough!

Mine are 9 and 7 and the teachers set 3 activities on Google classroom each day. We do them each day. It should only take an hour but it's really hard to get my children to focus and DS messes around so it takes 1.5 - 2 hours. They also get sent loads of optional activities to do. We haven't even looked at them. With DH and I working from home it's hard enough to get the bare minimum done (my 9 year old just gets on with the work, the 7 year old needs me to sit with him and do it with him).

Reception - we do around 2 hours in total punctuated by work calls, meals, playtime. It's quite exhausting!

Hardly any, dd1 is gcse year so had no work yet (awaiting A level prep work), dd2 has ASD and it’s almost impossible getting her to do work, I’m awaiting a amazon order today of science bits as this is all she’s interested in, school still haven’t really sent out much work for her. We do a couple bits from bitesize in the morning and we do cooking, that about it.

6 & 9 year olds - one piece of maths & english every morning from school. Both do reading.
We've just started doing a BBC Bitesize history or geography 'lesson' in the afternoon too.
9 year old also does some spellings & times tables every day.

Ds is 15 has ASD and is in year 11. We are starting from this week to try and get him to do 45mins A level prep work each day, it's not easy, he will only do very specific things. School have suggested 45mins per subject per day but that's not going to happen at the moment. Like many young people with ASD Ds thinks school is for school work and home is a safe space away from that.

We have work set by the school daily (year 4). We have English and Maths and one other subject and the work takes around 2 hours per day. We don't have to come up with the work ourselves, I am surprised that anyone has to do that!

Year 3. Since Monday school have been a setting work on a platform, marking it and having a daily zoom session. The structure is working well for DS and he’s engaged and enjoying getting Dojo points.
We do Joe Wicks, then maths for 1 hour. Half an hour break, English for 1 hour. Zoom session, lunch for an hour. Afternoons we sometimes engage with the work set for an hour and sometimes we go for a walk or play in the garden. By 2.30 he’s free to play, TV, Lego, iPad, garden - whenever he wants until tea.
He’s reading to me daily as well.
So short answer is 2-3 hours depending!

Very little as we both wfh full time. Hoping it all works out in the long run

I’m going to work and they are doing the work set by their school through google classroom. Secondary age though, so don’t really need any input from me.

Ds is 16, Year 11. We have not received anything yet from the school, I can understand that Year 11 is not the highest priority year to get work to.

He is doing three hours a day, and has just started this week. We didn't bother before Easter. We are starting with a short walk round the garden, then I am introducing him to meditation so he does a five minute course every day. Then for the rest of the first two hours he is researching into his A level courses, watching videos etc. on his own.

The last hour we call the personal development hour and this week so far, he has been messing about on his guitar learning new things. He could also go for a jog and I might even teach him how to cook some student staples later on.

At the moment it is going well, not too stressful so fingers crossed.

Just to add, as soon as work comes through from the school this will be added on to what he is doing at the moment.

It varies!

DS1 y4/ 9yrs, ASD, dyslexia, dyspraxia. He loves learning to his own agenda, not a formal academic one! School belongs in school. It takes full time 1:1 coaxing and adapting to get anything out of him. I'm trying to keep him practicing and functioning on his basic skills.

DS2 y2/ 7yrs possibly dyslexic. Generally more willing, but they can take on a tag team approach. He'd probably cope better without his DB's example.

They often find what the other is doing more interesting and I'm ok with that as it reinforces for DS1 and pushes for DS2.

I'm finding school work especially from one teacher is not "good to go". We're having better sucess with the more interactive nature of BBC Bitesize.

I just want their brains still functioning ready for the baton to return to school. Getting too aspirational would be a stressful hiding to nothing.

DD,yr 7, is running a full timetable with live lessons each day so she is independently working from 8.45 to around 3.30 with breaks for lunch etc. She's tired today!

DD, yr 4, has work set on Microsoft teams - we do an hour of maths first, then an hour of English (or less if the task is shorter), then other work in the afternoon eg science, history, languages etc. It's easy for me to run this as a) I'm a SAHM b) a primary school teacher and c) her sister is putting in a full day so she will mostly happily sit down and work from 9 in the morning. We do maybe 30 mins in the afternoon and she has plenty of downtime and garden time.

If I was WFH I seriously doubt DD2 would be doing this much as it would be hard to supervise her. She can work independently but really needs supervision to get through anything without losing interest!! After the Easter holidays I'm glad there's some structure for the weekdays.

I'm a teacher. I'm working 12 - 6 every day on lessons for my own class. Me and my child do nothing at all 'formally' during the mornings.

I reckon we'll be back at school after May half term. So that's only 10 weeks away from her mates, 8 weeks off school. In the scheme of things, this doesn't matter.

DD (5) is fortunately in reception year. I’m not feeling this home Ed stuff. We went on a loooooong walk today. She’s learned loads of new things about nature that’s for sure. But formal stuff, not done much. She will read a book every week day, is read to loads anyway, we do a bit of writing and numbers and play board games but she wants to play or do crafts and as I’m working shifts and often tired, I don’t mind.

DS year 6 and DD year 4. They get through the school's activities in about an hour and a half. I give them 20 minutes of extra maths, they both play two musical instruments so 20 minutes each on those. We'll do half an hour of something that interests them from history/Geography/Science. They spend another hour doing something they enjoy that's educational: coding, art, sign language, reading, chess. So that all accounts for 4 hours, which I figure is all they realistically do in a school day. I'm not worried about them needing to catch up - especially DS, who was really just going to sit the SATS (having done all the work at school already) and then have fun for the summer term!
The rest of the time they are chatting and playing outside but we do have table tennis, a trampoline, football goal and rebounder, and a toddler to play with, so the day goes quickly! They get iPad/Switch/TV an hour before breakfast and an hour after dinner. DD tends to have a video call with her friends most days and DS does that once a week plus daily chess competitions with his club.

Probably about 2.5 hours. Our school is setting one maths task, one English and they have a topic each week with one activity relating to that each day. Plus spelling shed and reading. Plus "PE" which often for us is a bike ride. I work for myself and hours vary so we fit school work around that. None of it is compulsory but I'm not telling the kids that. I need them to do something structured and they are getting feedback everyday from their teachers which is brilliant so they know it's being read

Year 4 and 5 here. Start after 9 doing maths and English. Then we do some work for science, French, art, geography, history, RE. We’re done by 12.30 for lunch. Go for a bike ride/walk to shake off the morning, then they do iPad school work TTRock stars, Sumdog and reading wise.

Friday we finish early.

Yr 3. 9.30 start , do 3 c. 20 min activities in morning - maths, eng or other until midday. With a 10.15 break. Afternoon is non screen activities w me or DH (garden, walk, cycle, Lego, games) then from 3pm he can do what he wants which means ipad or tv! Bbc bitesize is great. Ashamed to say I've barely looked at what the school has put on its hub as I find it really un user friendly! If I could get DS to read for fun I'd be v happy that's the one thing that is missing but he's just not bothered!

Whatever is set plus extra spellings/reading if necessary. Mostly only working 9-3 then exercise, craft, reading in the afternoon or something the kids want to do.

9-12, not 9-3!!!

DS (Yr3, he's almost 8) has a full timetable of work set by his school with maths, English, SPaG and one other thing (IT, science, geography etc.) every day. They are also encouraging other work and more practical stuff. DS is bright but doesn't have good concentration and isn't really bothered about work unless he is really interested in it. He is also easily discouraged and gets in a strop when something is tricky or he gets it wrong. School had actually recently recommended we look into an assessment for ASD as there is some other social and emotional stuff and he is a big sensory seeker. Obviously the sensory seeking isn't helped by lockdown and having to be in the house so much!

Add to that, DH and I both work full time and we also have a 2.5yo DS. This week the two of them have been a nightmare. Non-stop strops, whining and fighting We are aiming for an hour of English, an hour of maths and an hour or so of other things. But DS has to be able to mostly get on with his work with minimum input from us which is very hard. He doesn't really enjoy it. He loves e.g. researching something he is interested in or catching and observing insects but English and maths are hard work to get through without stropping.

I'm just amazed by the above answers how different the amount of work set by schools is.

I did email our school after the first week to say I was pleased by how clear and concise the activities were (ie. please don't give us anymore!).

Different amounts in different days. DC belongs (or did) to lots of clubs. Whilst most are cancelled, some are running their schedules and lessons via zoom.
So, for example on Monday we do lessons until 2.30, the 'go to the club', Tuesday we might start later and do lessons until 12, put Joe Wicks workout on and do that before lunch, then go back to lessons until 4.

Dd yr5 school have sent some ideas to do but nothing too formal and when I got a call from the teacher asking after us she said it was more important for us to be as a family at this time rather than worrying about how much school work we were getting through but to do as much as dd wanted and the kind of work she enjoys like creative writing