are you hacked off with "weekend" creative homework

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Year 1 DS gets complicated creative homework every weekend eg create an A2 colour poster using different media, fonts, pictures superimposed from different media, about the Dickensian era that requires enormous amounts of parental input. I'm fecked off the school sets homework that a child can't complete by themselves but requires parents to do it for them unless your DC can be trusted with a Stanley knife and computer and printer which ruins our entire weekend. What do you do with these projects? Leave your DC to do it and suffer the consequences of getting laughed at for having the messiest poster?

Soup Dragon...charming. All the ones that won were obviously done by parents, I saw them. That was the point. Just like the kid who recently won the best homemade musical instrument at dd's school had an amazing item that was obviously done by parents.

The point is, that to get the standard that the kids want to achieve in this sort of thing it has to involve a lot of parental input. Creative projects should be kept in school.

What's with the "charming" comment? Your egg didn't win a children's egg decorating competition - good.

I can't judge what the others were like but it is right that yours didn't win given you have stated your son had bog all to do with it.

Orange demons, why would you do your child's homework? Why can't they do it? Offer to go and help in school if you think you have particular skills tHat would benefit th class.

Same here. Just dreadful. I am nearly 50 and do not need to show school that I can do homework. They only criticise it anyway. Do any of you children have learning difficulties - that it makes it 10x worse :(

Yep all the winning ones are done by parents too.

Last week in Y1 the children had do write a paragraph or two about being a polar explorer - my five year old managed (with a lot of encouragement sweeties as bribes ) to write that it was snowy and cold and to draw a picture of a fish. Another five year old wrote a lengthy biographical description of Shackleton and his team and his journey complete with maps and glossary

Guess which project is on the wall in the classroom and got the child a special commendation from the head?