Just wondered what levels of homework people did. We're currently getting 20 spelling words a week with a test on Thursday. This includes (for example this week)
Sound, ground, pound, around, find, counter, eat, again, than
(All the "ound" ones are ok, he hits a roadblock when it changes to "find" for example but if we start with "find" he's ok and vice versa)
Now spelling isn't currently his forte and I'm literally pounding them into his head each week so that he can at least do the test. One week he got full marks, the next he completely fell apart and got 3/10.
20 is an awful lot of words to remember, and for Year 1 some of them are a bit much.
On top of this in order to achieve a Bronze certificate at Mathletics he needs to score over 1,000 points a week which in fairness he can do more or less by himself now but it's still another 30 minutes or so a day on that.
If that's what it is, I guess that's what it is but I feel like he (perhaps them all) are being put under a ton of pressure with all this rather than enjoying school. Perhaps it's ofsted driven, I really don't know.
Combined with other after school activities - swimming lessons, gymnastics etc I feel he's left with little time to do anything else (particularly weekdays).
Sorry for the long drawn post but I would just like to gauge other peoples experiecnes.
Thanks.