DD1 has just started year 6, been back about 2 and a half weeks.
First 2 days we didn't get any homework and the teacher is now 'starting them off gently'
For the last 2 weeks we've had - a maths sheet with around 50 sums on each night, 20 spellings home on Monday night to learn for spelling test on Friday plus a literacy sheet each night (grammar, nouns, that sort of thing) plus set reading which they then have to answer questions on in their reading diary (all this has to be handed in the following day, if it's not they have to do it during break/lunch time)
Then on Friday she brings home any unfinished 'morning work' which are work sheets theyre given to do by themselves for the 1st 10/15 minutes of the school day (these are supposed to be completed and handed in on Monday as well) and we get a project home which has to be handed in on Monday - last week was to design a space-themed theme park, this week we had to write a report on 'a dreamer who has changed the world'
We also have a speaking and listening project to do each half term (they do a project on a given subject then do a presentation to the class) and we also have a termly 'homework grid' which is a chart of about 30 ideas, of which they're expected to do 10 a term
At the moment she's doing at least an hour a day, with around 3 hours over the weekend.
I know they have to prepare them for secondary school but this seems a bit much to me. If this is breaking in gently I dread to think what the next few weeks will be like.
She's knackered and struggling to find time to do other stuff - she's a scout, learning the piano so practices for 30 minutes a day, swimming lessons, etc. she's already in a panic about next weekends homework - we're away for a family wedding (leaving straight after school on Friday and not back until about 7ish Sunday night) and is begging me to speak to her teacher as she's worried about getting into trouble.
Thanks!