Year 5 homework...how much do yours get?

[Troutpout]

How many times a week...how many different pieces a night?.. do they get weekend homework?...and how long do they spend aprox on homework per night?
Also holiday project homework...do yours do that too?

I think ds's school is taking the peesh

ds year 5 gets 1 maths paper and 1 english paper each week. its set on a Monday and used to have to be in on a Friday but now the hand in day is Monday. He spends about half an hour on it.

He also gets about 12 spellings each week.

No holiday homework

spelling sheet with ridiculously convoluted exercises on it

look & think - observation/reasoning sheet

French - usually vocab

English - comprehension or book group exercise

often maths

sometimes optional project work

No holiday work.

I think it's too much and have brought it up with teachers. But then I'm fairly anti-homework.

and up to dd to get that done over a week

pointydog i too am against homework. They spend so long at school that when they get home, they should be able to have tea and let off steam, not go back to the books. (Am quite draconian about bed times). My dd2 in yr 5 primary has 20 mins a day and spellings to learn over the week and 2 x lots for fri/sat/sun.
I also know lots of mums who sit over them helping. If there is one bit of good that homework should do its to show the teacher how much info the child has retained ergo no point in helping!! -the teachers do keep pointing this out.
Also 3x children with homework = far too boring for me,me,me.(my 3yr old has reading! You can imagine how much fun that is)

ok
monday..
spelling ( copy out and learn about 25 words). i have to give him a written test every night (takes about 15 mins)
maths (about 1 hour - 1 hour 30 mins worth) last night there were 40 long division sums and another sheet of about 20 sums...he has to copy everything out
reading..half a book (takes about 15 mins)

Tuesday ..

spelling (15 mins)
maths (1/1 hour 30)
reading(15 mins)

wednesday ...
as previous 2 days except he gets a double lot of maths (1 from each maths teacher)..one has to be in on Friday

Thursday..

Maths again...1 and a half hours (this one is to be done over a week (he has to do some now and some at the weekend..)
but he also still has one outstanding one to do for the next day (so another hour and a half)
reading and spelling ..
oh and also he now gets a weekly comprehension (to be in the following Thursday...another weekend jobby)

Friday...
I'm bolloxed if he's doing any thing on a friday...but he brings home loads

Saturday and Sunday...

He had 5 homeworks to do last weekend-
2 lots of Maths (both took about 1 and a half hours, Comprehension (about 30 mins) and journal (about 45 mins) and reading.

He is blardy nine years old...he seems to spend all of his life slumped over a blardy book!

Well...this weekend ds1 had two pieces for English - a quite demanding comprehension and a piece where he had to embed clauses in sentences; he had a two-sided worksheet to do for maths and another piece of maths work from his other maths class (yes, he has two teachers for maths - each gives her own homework) in which he was convinced he had to do 15 examples for each number given but I convinced him he had got the wrong end of the stick as that would be far too much: I reasoned that he only had to do 15 sums in all.

Back in school yesterday - turns out I was wrong - and it was 15 sums for each, giving a grand total of 95 calculations (divisions) to do...remember that's with the other maths and the comprehension and the sentences with the embedding of the clauses.

So we've broken the 95 sums down over the next three nights (it has to be handed in on Thursday) but now we have more homework: 40 minutes of maths last night; 40 minutes tonight. Oh and he gets around 30 spellings a week which have to be practised each night and a reading book to be read every night.

He's 9. This weekend, apart from an hour in the park and Saturday afternoon visiting Grandma and Grandad he spent most of his time sitting at the dining table bent over a book

It's a bit spooky - I was going to start this thread this evening myself...maybe because Troutpout and I have our ds1s in the same year at the same school and we are both heartily fed up with the amount of homework they get.

Could have saved myself all that typing and just waited for you to do it

That's a ridiculous amount Troutpout. Why do they need so much.

DS1 (yr5) gets two pieces per week. One Maths and one English or Topic. They are supposed to take about 20 mins I think, but ds1 usually rattles them off more quickly than that. (Just one worksheet each usually, or a page of writing.)

I honestly have no idea whether he has spellings or not this year
I haven't seen any!
He reads loads anyway, so that's not an issue - I don't listen to him read these days, but sometimes talk with him about the books he's read/is reading.

Tbh he doesn't "learn" much from homework IMO, but he has learned good homework habits - i.e. get on and get it out of the way asap without any fuss.

He gets holiday homework most half terms now I think. Often it is make a model or something like that

Good grief Troutpout, that is ridiculous!!!!! My dd1 is 9 and (admittedly we are in Scotland, so different education system) she gets four spelling words each night, which she has to write out four times, then write each one in a sentence.

Then once a week they get set an essay to write - last week it was "take someone on a tour of your house". Given out on a Tuesday, to be handed in the following Tuesday. They occasionally get debating worksheets too. No maths home.

Fortunately the head teacher is anti-homework too

Troutpout & marthamoo, that is an awful lot of homework.

I used to teach Y5 and the class would get 1 piece of maths, 1 piece of English and 1 set of spellings each week. There would occasionally be something extra, but not often. That was in accordance with the school's homework policy. Can you see if your school has one and what it says?

(and a book to read at her own pace, and no holiday homework either)

TROUTPOUT love that - blardy (the spelling) will have to use at every oppo!
I cant believe how much your blighters get! Is that
a. how long they should spend on it or
b. Have to do them ALL however long it takes or
c. He isnt-very-good-at-that-subject?!!

my year 5 class get 3 pieces of homework a week
maths, science english
one monday, one wed and one fri, each have 2 nights to complete
each piece should take 30-45 mins
I tell them to stop where ever they are up to after 45 mins

Furcoat - very tactfully put - nope, they are both in the top sets for everything...and the extra maths is a special reward for being in the "extension" group for maths. Aren't they lucky?

It is too much - Troutpout's going in on the warpath this week. I'm saving mine up for parents' evening this month - I have a list (I really do have a list...)

Popsy, have you got room for two more (very sweet, quite bright) boys in your class?

Why two maths teachers?

Miaou love your homework, but would be v. worried bout "tour of your house"! Could turn out like when dd2 was asked what does mummy do? She told them I worked at Asda. I wasnt even someone with a key or on a till. I packed peoples bags. Really wouldnt have minded this as am quite good at packing. But at the time was actually raking in huge City wonga telling people to jump etc.(many eons ago,in another life....ahhhh).
I asked why Asda as wasnt our local supermarket. She said adverts seemed cool!

Way too much {shock]

I'd be down the school politely grumbling vociferously if I was you.

Don't gov guidelines recommend about 30 to 40 mins a day for this age? they definitely did when I was teaching year 5 and that time should include reading and doing your spellings and tables.

My yr 5 ds gets 10 spellings a week, one maths and one English sheet. Takes him all of 5 minutes a night - poor ds

about 45 minutes in theory. In practice most take less time than this. And could be done in 10 minues if dd just sat down and concentrated,

Tonight's was about 10 questions on rivers

very sweet boys are my speciality
I just love teaching boys
and girls of course
but I really am a boys kind of gal

They have one maths teacher for "everyday" maths (which is everyday, funnily enough) and a lesson with another teacher on Thursdays.

Can't believe the amount of homework some of your children are getting!! I am also a teacher (a deputy in an inner city school). Do you get to see the marked homework? Always interesting that one. Our school is generally anti-homework. We focus more on the children reading every night and learning spellings. Generally a Y5 child would get reading, spellings, maths (1 or 2 sheets) and maths facts to learn (eg times tables) Even that doesn't get handed in - our children don't have a smuch support at home as they need or deserve so we don't set them up to fail. Some parents like lots of homework. Our theory is that it keeps their kids quiet...

Good luck with all your extra work. And yes, I would complain if I were you!

I have taught year 5 in two schools recently

One school they had one sheet of maths and one sheet of English per week, plus reading 10 mins min per night and spellings/times tbale to learn.

The other school they have 30 mins per night.

furcoat, pmsl at you packing bags at Asda!!! (I checked the "tour of our house" essay for comments on how dirty our house was and suchlike )

It went on - What does
Daddy do? He rides motorbikes and plays computer games. ie:commutes to work on bike as big swinging dick of lg. hedge fund co! HE = not amused ME = pms. Oh what a leveler.
I wondered why they banked school fees cheque pretty damn quick.

Dd will have a rebellious phase then, furcoat?