What is normal?

[Jojopugh]

My daughter is in year 3 at school. She loves school and she never gets upset about going.

Every week she has Home work plus a reading book. She completes this every week as she then has spelling test of 10 spellings, a maths test of 30 sums.
Plus she has Topic to complete every term and she has to present two pieces of work for this.

Is this a lot to ask of a 7 year old?

Sounds pretty typical .

Sounds normal to me. The school should have a homework policy available for you if you want to look at it. Lots of schools show these on their websites.

DS has the same weekly work though he doesn't really have topic homework.

I don't think it's excessive. We had similar amount since yr3, and it's worse in yr5.

I think it IS excessive - there is more to childhood than formal learning. We are losing sight of that to the detriment of our children.

Ds is in year 3.

He has reading (supposed to be each day)

Weekly spelling test of 7-10 words

One maths sheet and one English with instructions to not spend more than 10 mins on either.

Sounds normal. DS in Y3 has maths which is usually around 50 (2 sheets) of calculations, 15 spellings and an associated piece of literacy work and reading. He can stay and do it in school so I often don't see it.

Does your school have homework club?
Our school has one run by the year group teacher during lunch breaks, if struggling or doesn't have time to do it at home, etc.

Sounds pretty normal for me. We didn't have a term topic but they gave it out as holiday homework, I would have preferred it as a term one.

We are no in Y6 and it gets hairy now.

Mishappening- I agree, there is more to learning than homework, I think a decent homework policy in primary prepares for secondary when homework is more formal and mandatory. I don't want to argue with a teenager who is not used to it. DD sees homework as a matter of life and normally never argues with the 2x 30 minutes during the week plus reading and spelling.