Be honest-how much home schooling are you doing?

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I know some people are probably doing loads and others none. How much are you doing particularly with your 7 /8 year olds (in year 3).

I work from home so I aim for 45 mins in the morn and same in the afternoon but often we dont achieve this.

If im honest he spends hours upon hours on the tablet (minecraft).. :-( I feel guilty but at least hes happy wnd safe and i can do some of my work. I only have 1 child so easier for me.

Does anyone do loads or none? Im hoping im in the middle??

Y4 and Y9 Ds here. Y9 gets on with it - not sure on the quality but he's submitting work and hasn't been late with anything - yet. Y4 is a nightmare DH and I are both working from home (though I'm only .5 fte) - Y4 child is bored, frustrated and obviously can't remember a thing he's been taught. He gets really frustrated with the online apps if he makes typos and gets it wrong. Writing tasks are a nightmare. If I get an hour of constructive activity out of him a day I'm lucky. We've tried bribery, and had some limited success with him doing tasks for cub badges. He is sooo fed up I do start to worry about his MH and my sanity if some form of school isn't reintroduced soon..

Year 3 and 5 here

Half an hour of Joe Wicks

One hour maths

Half an hour reading (10 minutes each outloud) works at about 25 minutes total by the time we've moved from maths to reading.

Half an hour break.

An hour of English, varies by day between story project and grammar/spelling/vocab

Hour for lunch

Then two hours in the afternoon which is 2hours of Spanish a week, then either P.E., History/The World (geography/nature) or Science.

So it mimics a school day in terms of hours, if not lay out of those hours.

Both are really good with it to be fair, I've a super bright year 5 who is now stomping ahead with algebra/long division/hard multiplication etc. And a super bright year 3 who also has undiagnosed dyslexia (I asked the teacher to sort an assessment out when they return to school)

The teachers aren't really setting ant work, we use TT rockstars/purple mash/education city for their recurring work (school had always had activities etc for them even when they were in school).

I'm furloughed, DH is WFH. Makes it much easier.

My two are 11 and 14 and do a full school day while we WFH full time. They just get on with it. Eldest does his usual school timetable and does the work set by his teachers, and younger chooses 5 subjects every morning and does an hour each, usually getting stuff from Bitesize and BBC Teach, including some work set by his teacher (not very much). If he needs any help, he just asks us.

We always start with a 10/15 min 'assembly' to get them in the mood for the school day, then PE with Joe before lessons.

No problems yet.

My older year 7 DS does a full school day. My year 5 starts at about 10 (this has slipped massively, the first day he enthusiastically started at 8, his idea not mine, and I have been trying to get him to start at 9). He has English, maths and topic work to do, he generally works well in the morning, but not well after lunch. He would say he does a full school day, I would say he does two and a half hours in the morning, takes about two hours at lunch time faffing about, annoying his brother etc, and possibly does a bit in the afternoon but more likely reads the Beano or Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Year 3 8 yo
Does around 3 hours a day then reading, a documentary and PE with joe
But Dh is furloughed and that’s made all the difference

My 7 yr old has been doing a fair bit. She does some maths every day, reading every day, then spends time doing some project work. It’s usually science based.

My DS's timetable is-

8.40am Assembly pre recorded or Form time
On google meet
9.00am lessons start until lunch with morning break
Lunch at 1.30pm

2.00pm Enrichment or Project work everyday
This includes, Art, music , sport
Enrichment is based around the schools core values and includes community work etc

Then homework in the evening

My DD has live lessons all day and homework in the evenings.

I work full time from home at the moment so life is very full on but we are doing well and the children are focussed and learning

DD is y3 . She has a time table sent by the school and we loosely follow that. I don't care how long things take or do them for an hour because that's how long they take in school , so most things (bar English) take 20/30 mins, and playtime can be ours . We might swap things around or skip an afternoon task because she's had enough.
At 3 pm is home time and we're done.

P5 here, probably about 1.5 hours max focused, she faffs around quite a bit. Carol vorderman maths website, some reading, some writing tasks and science/ technology which needs a bit more parental input. Additionally she does Joe wicks, Gareth Malone home choir and practises two instruments then lots of Lego etc to fill up the day. I think it's plenty of school work but then I'm the kind of parent who is fairly confident that quantity does not equal quality and less can be more.

About 2 hours in the afternoon.
Probably less as that includes short breaks.
Times tables
Reading
Couple of pages of an English or Maths workbook
Bit of time on Reading Eggs or Teach your Monster to Read.
Some evenings he has some extra lessons on Zoom. There's a company called Outschool who have a wide variety of courses. DS likes the History classes.
I also pay a High School kid to ring him a couple of times a week and talk to him in Gaelic.

It really varies with my Year 5. Some days we do an hour, some days 3 hours. It depends what mood we’re both in and what she fancies doing. We always do our hour of maths and anything else is a bonus.

Yr 3 and Yr 6 here.

We go out for a run first thing and get down to work about 9.30. DCs have decided they would rather work until lunchtime and then have the afternoon free so that is what we do. They’re doing about 2.5 - 3 hours of school work per day. Sometimes a bit more if they have fun activities like art that they want to carry on with in the afternoon.

DS Yr 1.... about 25-45 mins a day, could be maths, reading or phonics/handwriting. He's not interested!

Naff all. Y9DS is getting on with the set work with no intervention from me, plus teaching himself from TED talks, so he’s great. Primary age DDs are spending forever on screens, occasionally doing a bit of guides and brownies badge work when forced (and stood over). Literally no school work at all. DH and I are both working virtually full time from home.

I'm struggling to get my youngest motivated. School set stuff but lots is online, which she can't access when I'm working. I'm working nearly full time, so can't spend much time with her.
She's doing some projects I've set her, and when I dont need to be online she express Bitesize & does some school stuff.
Lots of minecraft.

DS is Y3. It really varies here. Some days 2 hours, some days 15 mins. I don’t count time so much as insist on neat work and that he really tried hard (so not necessarily correct, but evidence of trying and using his brain Rather than slopping through the work). We had really only got his mental health and self esteem back to a fragile but ok state after horrendous bullying at his previous school, so my priority is getting him through this without regressing too much. We cook a lot and go out for our daily exercise, build things, play games. Way too much screen time but I’m trying not to stress!

Year 1, about an hour or two a day. She’s come on in leaps in bounds in a fraction of the time spent at school.

Mixed bag really, DD hasn't been doing the art and science sent from school as we are replicating a lot of that home with topics she is interested in, I'm a Brownie Leader too so we have lots of crafts and crap around the place that she has dabbled in, but I have been led purely by her interests. She's a keen reader too and will smash through a book in a day or two.

In the early days there was Kidstube available but I was fed up with the gaming crap she was watching - so I've deleted it.

We found Outschool last month and she loves their live classes and chatting to other students in it. She's done cute animals, horse care, a Minecraft themed maths lesson which I was a bit suspicious about but she nailed some aspects of her maths that she has been struggling with for a little while. The teacher was fantastic and sent her some follow up things to help and encourage her along, yes they were American platforms but she loved it.
She also recently signed up for a book club for Wings of Fire series which she is nuts about, that will go for 6 weeks and ties in with mythology - a bit passion of hers, saves my ears too about which fecking tribe is fighting another tribe.

She has been sent a fair bit of school work and Maths is a very very weak area for her, she does a small quiz each day minimum for maths, plus 15 mins on Rock stars. The school introduced White Rose maths last week and that has resulted in some real meltdown behaviour as she doesn't understand it, I've dropped it to the year below and with me acting as a TA to keep her on track she's getting it, but no way can she do it by herself.

We've done a few English Live! Sessions on YouTube too and the Friday spellathons each week.

As long as her maths is returned and her writing assessments done then the extras we can do.

Ds year 3
Only do mon-fri
Spellings
15/20 mins maths
Reading
Work on a project (romans at the moment)
So 1 1/2-2 hours a day

DD’s 7 and 10 here. We do 6-7 hours a day, 6 days a week, with breaks obviously (45 minutes for lunch and two 20-30 minute breaks). As the weathers been decent and we’re very fortunate to have a quiet garden, we’ve been working outside a lot.

They have maybe 30 minutes set work from school per day, the rest is work I’ve set for them via workbooks/sheets, reading exercises, music, pe, technology, Spanish and Korean and we do a lot of work on social communication skills for my youngest who is autistic.

Eldest is 3rd year at Uni and so does her own thing, asks for me to proof read or for some help here and there, she also helps out with music and languages for the lo’s.

I’m studying currently (neurodevelopmental psychology, for interest rather than qualification, which takes a lot of pressure off) so I do my reading and work alongside or in between the lo’s lessons.

DH is a keyworker but helps out once he’s home and cleaned up.

I will say that all 3 DD’s are exceptionally well behaved, rarely quarrel and so can be left to get on with a task once it’s explained, allowing me to get on with “house stuff” and my own studying, most of the time

@PinkyU
Wow amazing stuff! I'm not even getting close to that!
7 hours a day, 6 days a week

@PinkyU why 6 days a week? One thing I have learned is that I'll continue this system during the six week holidays.

Only for the morning's, but the girls thrive from it

@Kelsoooo it’s just what we’ve found works for us, when they’re in school we would still do learning at the weekend to compliment and consolidate what they’d been doing during the week, all be it for less time over the entire weekend- 3 hours per day, with some breaks.

I think on the whole they’re doing a similar amount of work they’d have been doing outwith lockdown.

We’re all early risers, so today we’ve already done just over 2 hours so far.

2 hours a day, I reckon. But lots of faffing. Year 4.

I home ed already so loads! :)