How much time for subjects other than numeracy and literacy

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My kids school which is a good school in a tricky area - seems so worried about passing maths and english targets that they now do 7hs maths a week and 10 hrs literacy in key stage 2 - even more in key stage 1 - after pe and re and pshe which they have to teach - and ict, and signing there is 3 hours left for everything else! ie all art, geography, design and technology, history, science. there is no time for cooking, learning a musical instrument or woodwork at all!
Has anyone else noticed this Great British Subject squeeze at their schools?
I think it's a tradgedy I know numeracy and literacy are important - but so is creativity and science and so much else!
I'd be really interested in hearing about other schools and if anyone else has noticed this trend - especially as SATs no longer test for science - has that gone out the window now too?

In my school, we do an hour of both a day, apart from on Thursday when we do about 1 1/2 hours of literacy due to Big Write.

On the whole, afternoons are for topic work.

Also, have a look at this:

sites.google.com/site/tesfaqs/timetable

Thanks very interesting - so is it just our school do you think?

Some schools do nothing but literacy and numeracy in year 6 in the few months weeks running up to SATS. They shouldn't do this but I think it is quite common if my students are believed ( and yes I do take what they say with a pinch of salt sometimes!)

I meant to put nothing but rather a lot of Literacy and Numeracy

My children's school is also a "good school in a tricky area". They do one hour each of maths and english per day, set by ability.

One of their Ofsted targets was to increase the amount of reading, writing and maths that was integrated with other subjects. So for example, applying the maths they've learned in science lessons, writing projects in geography etc. So in reality they do much more than 2 hours per day, but there seems to be plenty of space for all the other subjects.

They also have fairly regular "special weeks" when the normal timetable goes out of the window and they focus on a particular curriculum area - so during "world cultures week", there was masses of languages, music and cookery going on. But they also kept the maths going by getting them to come up with fundraising ideas - such as flogging interesting international baked items to parents!

when you count literacy do you include reading time - letters and sounds etc which all broadly come under literacy? I'm wondering if our school is exceptional as we have half the time recommended on the TES link sites.google.com/site/tesfaqs/timetable for science, art, history geography, DT. Or whether this is normal?