A thread to exchange notes about year 6 holiday homework

[AChickenCalledKorma]

DD2's school never usually sets homework over the holidays.

Today she has brought home a one hour reading comprehension past paper, 30+ pages of maths and grammar revision exercises, several tasks on Mathletics, several sample online SPAG tests aaaaaaand ............ a cheery message from her teacher telling her it's very important she has a good rest and enjoys her two weeks off!

Oh, and a revision timetable which breaks each individual day of our holiday down into five handy slots.

Please help me calm down! We have been having a conversation with school about how pressurised she is feeling and how they are blowing the significance of SATs out of all proportion. This is not a helpful response.

How do you define hot housing though? Does it just mean doing more preparation than you, personally, think is necessary? Does it only count as hot housing if it is done with a fairly bright child who ends up getting a really high mark? Somehow I can't imagine it being called 'hot housing' if it were hours per week trying to get a really low ability child up to scrape a pass in a test. In which case it's not really about the hours put in.

When I was at primary, a long time ago, there was no homework.
Holidays were holidays.
All changed at secondary but primary -school was school and home was home.
As I say a long time ago and a village primary. Others may have had very different experiences.

Primary school now is completely different from when we were all small though.

I said narrowly focused thinking of a geometry question where there were at least three correct answers. Only one of the answers would fit in the answer grid because it was fairly small. So although DS could do the work to get the answer, it didn't fit - DH tried another way and it still didn't fit, I tried another and it did. Finally. But you wouldn't have time in a test to keep trying. And in real life any of the three solutions would be absolutely fine.

Oh OK. I wouldn't call that narrowly focussed from your description, I'd call it badly worded!

When I look at what I've been covering with DD2 for maths it is very similar in topic base to the lowest level stuff I had to cover with DD1 for GCSE maths last year (and only a little easier!)

Yr 6 - none.
Yr 5 - none.

Just holiday fun and minecraft.

We've had Y4 homework! Writing a story. I'm half tempted to just tell Ds to leave it, although this will leave him with mixed signals as he's extremely literal thinking. If I tell him he doesn't have to do it, he'll think the sake of any future homework!

*same

Mrz - I thought that this am! I really don't think DDs teacher will have time to mark 180 papers. I think parents are supposed to mark them at home.