how much in yrs 1 and 2?

[earlgreyplease]

How much homework do you get in yr 1 and yr 2 - and what kind of thing is set - how long should it take?
I think we are getting too much, would love your advice please.

We get a "learning log" (homework exercise book) worksheet most Fridays, due in a week later. This is year 2. In year 1 the frequency was maybe every 3-4 weeks.

Some of the parents seem to expect a lot of their 6/7 year olds and it seems to get a bit competite. If dd (6) isn't enthusiastic about the task, we get her to write literally a sentence and draw a relevant picture and that seems plenty to me.

Oh and reading books, she struggles a bit with reading so we read with her every night, teacher reads with her every day and she gets a new book 3-4 times a week.

Recent example:

Describe a recent meal you had.

Fill in the circles (labelled with food groups) with the foods you ate.

They are encouraged to draw lots of pictures.

Daily reading, weekly spellings, one piece of homework per week. ds has some handwriting too.

Oh yes forgot the weekly spellings. dd has issues with those...

Loads!
Daily reading, spelling and Maths tables.
Weekly writing - comprehension or writing about something.
With the spellings, write 10 sentences to include each word.
Set maths exercise weekly.
Plus ad hoc projects, 1 each half term.

So hard when they can barely write, you literally have to sit with them and go word by word.

But, we're in YR3 now - and it's all paid off. I can now get on with things in kitchen whilst DS7 works more autonomously.

Hard at the time, but there's light ahead.

My DD yr1 only gets her books changed weekly. We are expected to read with them daily, daily spelling practise and regular writing and number practise, but no set tasks. Every summer everyone in the school gets a scrapbook to do over the holiday and a long list of activities to keep them busy.

10 spellings and 10 sums weekly, tested every Friday.

many thanks all who answered. We get loads like LIBIF and i think it is too much however if it pays off in Y3, i suppose it may have been worth it. My heart bleeds tho when we can't play in the park because we have to sit at home and do our homework :-(

ds2 is in year 1. he gets one lot of homework a week, plus reading.

his homework is usually something wildly open-ended. this week it was "learn something about leaves" (or something along those lines)... they want them to think of what to look at themselves, so they're more motivated

last week it was water.

week before it was making an alphabet frieze/book/poem/anything else to do with alphabet

we're at a Montessori school though, so poss different from regular primary?

I know EarlGrey, we used to do the bulk of it on a Sunday afternoon, it used to hang over me like a black cloud.

A lot of people didn't do homework, but I'm glad that we stuck with it.

In year 1 my DD used to have Maths and Writing homework once a week. I found it very useful. The teacher catered for different ability children (3 different level home works) and she always wrote a comment on the page how the children used their knowledge on the lesson.

Know in year 2 the teacher is leaving, we had many supply teachers so there was no home work for about a month. We wish we had home works again.