I've jsut been summoned to see the teacher

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For Ds2. He got sent home on Firday with the following homework

Reading record - please read every night and write it in the book, get your parents to listen and sign it.
Writing - write 10 sentences using the words provided
3x table and 6 x tables to be memorised
12 mulitplication sums to do.
I got him to do some of it but wrote to the teacher and said I felt it was a lot to give them on a Friday and expect it all to be in on a Monday!

She didn't agree

How old is he? It does sound a lot... I think I would struggle Is his teacher generally warm and approachable or are you scared!?

I despise homework in primary schools - in fact most at the time at secondary school it is set for the sake of it.

I think weekends are for recovering from the school week - recharging batteries for the week ahead.

How didn't she agree?

At a guess he sounds the same sort of age as my ds1 (who's 8) If so..I think this is too much for Fri to be completed Mon... We have a week to complete a similar amount.

Depends on age as to wether thats a lot of homework, but regardless of age, that isn't much time to get it done.

DD gets homework on Fridays and it has to be back on Thursday. We tend to spread it out over the week so she can have some rest.

Does the teacher think you don't have a life outside of school? Surely its important to spend time together as a family and for a chance to rest and recharge?

How old? What year?

I think it is a lot of homework for primary school.

my son is in yr 9 in grammar school and does not get that much

IMO, homework in primary schools should be merely about getting them used to the concept that work should be done out of school, to be handed in at a set time. This sets the stage for secondary education. My dds (in Scotland) get homework from Monday to Thursday, that takes them about 10 minutes, none on the weekend (family time). I would agree, that's about a week's homework!

I told dd's teacher that as dh and I work all day Saturday, dd does an actrivity and Sunday was family time she would do the minimum of homework.

You may have been summoned to see the teacher, you can either stick to your guns, or refuse to go.

Sorry I didn't get back to this. He is 7, and in year 3. It's usually sent out on a Monday, for return the following Monday, but it's been getting later and later in the weekwhen it's been getting handed out. I also told her that I can't understand why they don't read with them in class - is this an English education thing then, because at their school in Scotland they did reading in class, and lots of friends in various parts of Scotland have children who do reading at school.

i work alot of weekends too and find it hard to fit in homework, my ds(6) gets alot too.

stick to your guns. we didn't have any homework at that age. the amount annoys me too.

I think it is unusual for them to do much reading in class. DS is in Yr 2 and reads to a teacher or TA once a week I think. And a parent helper once a week.

That is a lot of homework to be done over a weekend. We normally get homework on a Monday to be in by Friday. And on Tuesday we get spellings for a test on Friday. And I think it is all too much at Yr 2 level.

DS is in Y2. His homework is Friday to be handed in on Wednesday. In practice, because of my working Tuesday, Beavers on Monday, football practice on Tuesday we generally do it over the weekend and take it back on a Monday.

His homework consists of a sheet of literacy work and a sheet of numeracy work, six spellings for a test on Fridays, and reading that is supposed to be nightly - we do about 5/6 nights a week. This week the literacy was doing an animal alphabet and then pluralising (but some were already filled in eg mouse, sheep, wolf so irregular plurals). The numeracy showed 6 rulers with measurements marked on them in centimetres plus millimetres and he had to write down each measurement in millimetres.

Waaaay to much for a weekend. A week maybe. Could DS2 have forgotton to show you the homework earlier in the week (or misplaced it) and it should have had a week to be done?
But that wouldn't entail a 'summons' from the school. i hope you make them organise the visit to suit your timetable not theirs.

Too much. My 10yr old has just started getting a lot more and he doesn't have that much over the weekend. Mind you we do engineer it so that there is not much left for the weekend - but it doesn't seem as if you have that choice.

When is your DS supposed to have downtime?

I am a teacher and I think that is far too much. One of the items you mentioned is acceptable, certainly not all of them. How did you get on with the teacher?

I'm also a teacher and agree it's too much - especially for a weekend when fireworks have been going off all the time. Stand your ground and ask if he can spread it out over the week.

Far too much for that age. I think you should question the point of stating that homework will be given out on a set day and then the teacher not sticking to her own rules. How can she expect the children to learn the principle of handing work in on time if she doesn't set it on time?