How much home schooling is everyone doing?

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Just that really.

Dont feel im doing a good job at it. Ive dd 6 (year one) & doing probably an hour a day, split between maths & English- she hates English so thats always interesting 😕

No live lessons, work provided by school which we are following a little but proved to difficult for her to understand (& me if im honest).

Is one hour a day acceptable?

My advice is to print off the expectations for end of year (just google them) then see what they have to know. Eg yr 2 dd needs 2,3,5,10 times tables. We were also sent 6 &7 but I'm not focusing on them as she doesnt need to. Check what writing expectations there are. Above all just keep up the reading that's the main thing. BBC is starting educational lessons on Monday too .

Dd is in year 3. We did around 1/1.5hrs of the set tasks today. Then we read for 15mins. Then we played with Aquabeads and she built a house on Minecraft then she did some cosmic kids yoga and did some sort of sewing thing she got for Christmas. Not a bad balance I don’t think.

School are setting tasks each day on Google classroom, she’s going to be in school Mondays and Tuesdays while we work (keyworkers but I’m part time) she’ll be home with us Wednesday but I’ll be working from home so I will probably get her to watch the educational stuff that they’re doing on the BBC. Thursday is the only full day I get to help her properly as it’s near impossible to do any amount of schooling while her 3 year old sister is at home (she’s at nursery Mon-Wed usually and we’re paying for her to be there an extra day so I can focus on the school work)

Ds15 is up and running fine on teams 8.30-3, with 20mins of live learning and then 40mins for work to be completed, playing on xbox during down time.

Dd10 is not getting anywhere as we cannot get google classroom meets on her fire tablet to work and she cant edit any of the set work so she’s just been doing a aqa workbook which i bought during first lockdown and any tasks that don’t involve editing and submitting work online.

Dd4 I’ve just been doing 20min slots a couple of times a day on my iPad on purple mash, cant get het up about her learning as some countries don’t even start school till 7yrs so I’m not concerned.

Went online to see if we could get another ideapad-we bought one in 2018 for £119, now they are £199 on Argos and no stock anywhere anyway, hoping school might have a Cromebook or laptop we could borrow for dd10.

@Alwaysready

My advice is to print off the expectations for end of year (just google them) then see what they have to know. Eg yr 2 dd needs 2,3,5,10 times tables. We were also sent 6 &7 but I'm not focusing on them as she doesnt need to. Check what writing expectations there are. Above all just keep up the reading that's the main thing. BBC is starting educational lessons on Monday too .

This^

There far too many people getting stressed about doing the school work, when too much is being set and much is repetitive.

If you are doing 1 to 1 then the kids will take it in quicker.

Rather than aiming to do all the set work, aim to achieve the goals for the year and pick from the work set to help you get your child there.

The way this has all been set up loses site of this. It puts the inappropriate pressure on kids and parents.

Without knowing the goals parents are working blind not knowing what their kid should be getting out of the work.