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The faster the get rid of course work the better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 14:20

I make sure all my kids only do the work in school.

Normally they bitch when they have homework.

Now they are bitching because they have to do the work in class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

ARGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have written on the board

I CANNOT DO THE WORK FOR YOU!!!!!!!

Do they read it? do they hell!

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figroll · 06/10/2006 14:24

My daughter has just started GCSE coursework this year and last night she spent 2.5 hours on one piece of work. Call it excessive, but she is a perfectionist. I can't wait for the end of coursework, as I feel it gives them too much pressure.

fairyjay · 06/10/2006 14:26

Have the rules changed MB, so that coursework can only be done in the classroom? Ds will be fine - dd a nightmare!

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 14:30

We have done this for the last few years.

It has a number of advantages.

It stops some kids cheating

It stops some parents 'cheating' and/or being pressured into helping with something that should be the child's own work.

Doing it in class time takes the pressure off the kids.

Doing it in class time stops the kids losing/wrecking work which then has to be re-done/ rem,arked.

It gives all the kids a level playing field.

But they really are driving me loopy

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SNORcacKLE · 06/10/2006 14:42

MB they are saying on the news science will be the last to go as they don't want to change syllabus again so soon. Looks like ds, yr 8 will be stuck with it but dd, yr 6, wont - except maybe for science. Or do you know better?

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 14:47

They have already changed the GCSE sylabus this year in science, so from this years Y10 kids coursework(as a single experiement) is already a thing of the past. Their practical skills are tested in small scale experiments and write ups through the two years....about 4 times each term IIRC (I'm not teaching the new course yet, I will next year)

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SNORcacKLE · 06/10/2006 14:54

Oh right - news implied that Science was sticking with 25% coursework as it had just changed to that - perhaps they are counting the practical skills & write ups as coursework - which I suppose they are in a way.

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 15:12

They are. But it is very different, more like a series of check lists. Has the child shoun they can make a prediction Tick

Has the child shown they can measure voltage and current Tick

That sort of thing.

Little and often, all done in class.

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fairyjay · 06/10/2006 15:37

mb
What happens when certain kids (not sure either of mine would be amongst them!) want to spend longer on their coursework. Aren't they then limited by lesson time?

I'm just thinking of a WW2 history projet ds did last year - he loved it, and spent hours finding out bits of info. Presumably that won't be possible?

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 15:40

My kids have 9 hours and 20 minutes to work on their course work.

If they want more time, I let them work at break and lunch time.

If anyone is seriously that interested in water movement into an out of potato chips I think they are in need of some councelling

I love Biology, but it bores me to death!

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ScummyMummy · 06/10/2006 15:47

I think I would have failed my GCSEs if I'd had to do coursework in class! Was (and am) a terrible distractible flibbertigibbet and needed to be alone and undisturbed to get anything completed...

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 15:49

Ah, But you were not taught by the bitch martian queen from hell!

evil cackle!

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ScummyMummy · 06/10/2006 15:51

Do you somehow focus the impulsive distracting types?

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 15:53

Oh yes!

Amazing what being a faintly manic, fat Welsh woman does to their ability to work

In the end it is a battle of wills, and my will wins!

I make them work in silence! Hard but fair and effective. If they want help, they ask.

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ScummyMummy · 06/10/2006 16:03

I would have been distracted by watching you being manic, i suspect!

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Blandmum · 06/10/2006 16:06

no, because I use was dd called 'The quiet voice that scares people'

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mumeeee · 06/10/2006 17:36

My daughter is 14 and in year 10. They are doing science course work in school which she is fine with. But she was also doing a piece of English course work in class. She didn't finish it in the time she was given in class and was told she could do it at Lunch and break times. It had to be handded in today. She did do it at lunchtimes but was allowed to e.mail it home to herself ( they were typing it up on the computer) to finish at home. Because she was allowed to do this she finished it and handed it in on time. If she had not been allowed to do this then she would have struggled to finish it.
So not beinf allowed to do course work at home will not be very good for her.

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