School projects for year 2?

[unicorn]

More like projects for the parents iykwim - the 'winners' in dd's year all had fantastic input that just had to come from adults (super photos and computer graphics etc)
Seems far too young to be doing home projects - and at the end of the term as well - what is the point?
Any teachers shed any light?

(dd didn't win - can you tell?)

Its'ridiculous isn't it? I mean, the teacher MUST realise that the children haven't done this alone. And what about kids who don't even have access to the resources to produce this stuff.

Having said that, for various reasons I did 85% of a project that my son had to do a few years ago in year 7. I got 20/20 !!!

I'm curious - what were the projects?

Key stage 1 Great Fire of London

unicorn, I agree with you and PollyLogos that parents shouldn't be doing their children's homework, and that it is not sensible for Year 2 children to have a project competition at the end of term.

But now you've told us what the subject matter was, I'm worried. Those parents who did super photos to do with the Great Fire of London - are they arsonists by any chance?

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Hallgerda

I agree parental involvement is important - but my objections are 1) making it competitive when it is really not a fair competition 2)involving parents in such a big way, at this point in the term when we are just waiting for the whole thing to end!

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