How much work is your year 6 getting?

[Frangipanini]

Can you share with me the type if work and amount of work your year 5 or 6 is getting. Mine has very, very little to do and it doesn't seem right. FYI its a very expensive prep school too!

My year 6 has an hour of English either a comprehension reading paper or spelling and grammar paper plus online times tables and online spellings. Also an hours maths paper either reasoning or arithmetic plus online maths test. Then a every day either science paper plus experiment or history plus a history topic. Yesterdays was make a viking village after finding out about it from the paper and online. Rs work was to create a comic strip depicting the easter story. Seems to have loads to do.

We are doing an hour of maths and English online first thing before the systems start crashing.
Then maybe another hour of paper based stuff - science, spelling, writing.
There is loads we could do - but from the "take portrait pictures of your family and turn them into line drawings" we have taken the photos, and cried in horror at drawing, so not done it. If we had done that but, it could have taken hours (and looked like the cat had done it!). We have looked up a YouTube video of how to draw people.

Great, I'm paying 14K a year and am getting no response to my emails and my child has literally nothing to do.

@Frangipanini ask for a refund, I bet they'll reply then 😂 As a teacher sounds like you're being ripped off

Online learning here (indie prep). Following normal hours but not normal Timetable. Maths, English and science online upfront followed by work, other subjects mixture of pre-set work sent night before or online. Games I have to do!

They even have form time twice a day.

I haven't paid for T3 yet. Just got the invoice!

I'm a TA in an independent... all junior school ( where I work) had a home learning pack sent home ( masses of stuff of Y5 equivalent)... and teachers are setting further work online and working very hard to do so, to be in touch with pupils, calling some individually if needs be... and all whilst caring for own kids in may cases... we all worked super hard under great pressure to prepare the packs and the teachers continue to do so... ( us TAs are mostly providing the key worker childcare... or at least I will be when I get out of self isolation next week ).

My daughter in Y6 equivalent is following usual timetable online via a combination of live streaming lessons, videos and presentations that are available online,and work set to do for them posted online. She is busy all day!

My other two kids (senior school ) are also following normal timetable as above.

Feedback from parents has been universally supportive and appreciative of what the teachers are providing. It's a steep learning curve to provide online lessons for most of the junior school staff as they and the children are new to the technology, but it seems to be going well.

this doesn't sound right at all.

I feel a bit crap typing this TBH because it seems like you've been let down and your school was unprepared.

my Y6 (indy) DC are doing remote online learning. The DC were trained how to use it a couple of weeks ago and brought a remote timetable and stack of textbooks home last week. daily registration/form group then an hour of eg. maths, English and science with assignments to upload for marking, then 2 other subjects after lunch with assignments to upload also. Teachers then mark and send feedback. There's also a prep timetable for eg reading, X tables and lots of encouragement for daily sport and DC to upload photos so this week we've had garden cricket and lots of running. Extra curricular music lessons via online also.

The DC can use the remote school for video calls and chat together one to one, and in form & subject groups.

There's a skills challenge (lots of juggling, baking, learning to load a dishwasher etc) and daily blog video from the head, a variety of daily special awards and info on what other children have been up to via twitter.

I cannot speak highly enough of the school, their handling of this situation and the staff who always work so hard.

Its required minimal involvement from me, DC happy getting on with it so far apart from the odd question about saving/uploading files. They're using my laptop, so I have to work evenings/nights.

My year 6 was sent home with folder full of printouts and workbooks and then further work was put on the school website.

This week they were asked to do 7 maths papers, 6 English papers, write a story, do some humanities research and at least an hour of reading a day.

I had to come back to add, if DC weren't self-motivated to join in with remote school that would be fine, I wouldn't force it and school have said the same. This is all very unsettling for DC, they're definitely not expected to be like little robots working all day, its far more important they're happy.

For Y6 they have been following the class schedule, so for example if PE is 9-10am, DS and I do PE with Joe Wicks then he does chores for the rest of the hour; if it's English from 10-10:45am, he does the Comprehension worksheet at that time.

Worksheets for maths, science, English etc. are being sent and completed via Google Classrooms. For humanities they had to create a PowerPoint presentation on the slave trade and submit it via Google Classrooms. For Mandarin, DS recorded his voice on his iPhone speaking phrases and uploaded it.

It's a bit too much to supervise if both parents WFH as we do, and it would be great if there was more interaction (like a live video lesson) but for some families this could be a struggle as some have already said their internet connection isn't fast enough.

For his school nothing, but according to his teacher he could do some SAT's work If he wants too .

I have looked at what other schools are doing to come up with a timetable for him to do.

Independent year 5 - one hour of maths, one hour of English, one hour of topic / art / music based, one hour of science plus PE exercises

My Y6 dd, state school, was sent home with a huge pack of worksheets, books, activities - and even a pencil, ruler, rubber and sharpener!
There are also daily communications via Seesaw, but no online learning given from the school. Her teacher answers emails very quickly, usually within an hour. I do really appreciate everything she's doing, and realise that all the teachers have been trying to navigate uncharted territory here.
Her teacher has made it clear that the pack can be done at leisure, or adapted to suit - so, for eg, we're not arsed with building a Tudor boat, we'll do something different instead.
I'm really surprised with how well it's working out. DD is very motivated (so far) with the academic stuff, and we're trying to balance that out with cooking, gardening etc. She got a sewing machine for Christmas, so we'll probably dig that out this week and figure out how to work it.

My year 4 has tonnes, my year 5 has very little.

I work in an independent school and work was given for the three days left they would be in. More work to follow if it continues after Easter. It wasn’t much as obviously three days work.

What I’ve put it down to is adding the amount of time that’s spent on PE, assemblies, visits from theatre companies etc. We do most of our work in the morning, and thinking about it again there are no disruptive children about to halt progress.

My year 5 has had barely anything...2 maths worksheets (a4 sheets with a few fractions on) and a grammar booklet. I’ve been supplementing with lessons and resources I’ve found online (because she wants to have work to do, not because I’m making her.)

I teach at an independent primary (abroad) and ours have a small group online teaching session in Maths and Literacy three days a week (for about half an hour each day) and then independent follow-up tasks, which should take them to about 1 hour each a day. They have MFL once a week and get work set once a week for Mysic and Art. They have a project for Topic work to complete. In addition to that, they have access to a range of online learning platforms.
Any children, who need additional support get contacted through Zoom or Skype at least once a week as well. Ours certainly have enough to do. We are now trying very hard to relieve parents of having to try and "teach" the kids. Most of them have to try and work from home.
(They don't pay anywhere near 14k a year, though. It's much cheaper here.)

My DS has been sent home a folder with their SATs revision as they can complete the activities and recap learning...
Maths, Geometry, Literacy, GPS, Spellings, Handwriting, Problem Solving plus a presentation to do, newspaper article, science project, reading...

Teacher is starting to send out lessons next week so may need to up work to three things a day instead of two...

Also does PE with Joe Wicks

Loads. Structured by subject, not day, which is a pain to follow as you have to read the whole doc every day to find the day's tasks.

Not tested so they sent links we would have to pay for. I guess they were rushed.

I've been WFH so DD had to do it all herself. We looked at it at the weekend and I feel guilty I didn't help her. She needed to register for some websites, but didnt know how to, so didn't do it.

We sent out paper packs for last week and this week as we were worried about households where there was no broadband/printer/laptop or laptop being prioritised for parent/older child.
Currently starting to prepare provision for after the ‘holidays’ - are there any online sites that have worked particularly well for your Year 6s?

Year 6 independent, daily work set online in Maths (mixture of websites/work sheets, investigations, English (mixture of comprehension/writing tasks etc), topic work, all subjects really, including IT (eg. scratch), Music, French, PE, spellings, daily reading and weekly reading journal. Additional in depth activities also provided. Regular contact with teacher online (both academic and pastoral input), music, ballet and drama lessons also on via websites such as skype/zoom etc. It is quite busy to be honest! Luckily my YR6 just gets on with it in her room. My Year 4 is another matter, the work load is crazy. I hope they tone it down after Easter. Both schools already had a secure online presence so just had to adapt their already planned lessons and upload accordingly