Y4 homework

[LynetteScavo]

DS, in Y4(state junior) gets hardly any homework, (since september, 4 maths work sheets) although he is expected to read to himself every day.

When I brought it up at parents evening I was told home is for children to play, have fun, ride bikes, etc.

I'm not too concerned as he hated homework with a passion in his at his old school and refused to do it.

How much are your children given?

Since I started taking more notice, I realise that he's been given loads! Eek.

ds1 is in year 3 and has literacy and numeracy homework weekly a\s well as speelings and reading every night. Occasionally gets other homework like geography. All far too much imo

obviously i need to practice my spelling

Ds is in Y3 and is getting less homework than last year. He now gets a worksheet(either literacy and numeracy), sometimes 20 spellings, and a book review of his reading book.

She is supposed to read 10 - 15 mins a night, write a book review once a week, though I think there is time in class to do that sometimes.

10 spellings, two tables for tables test and a maths or science work sheet.

They go to Middle school next year so are being prepared for that. This is the first year that I have made any effort to get her to do it as I don't want Middle school to be too much of a shock. Would much rather she was having fun and bike riding though.

OK, this is an independent school:

Spellings nightly to revise
Maths one night a week
English one night a week
More substantial research/projecty type thing over weekend
Also expected to read either aloud or solo and record progress in diary

In terms of time spent for us this means

about 20 mins each on the maths and English homeworks
about 45 mins start to finish on the weekend one
0 mins on the spellings as ds is lucky to be good at this so the classroom work on them is sufficient
30-45 mins on the reading by choice, probably more than many classmates who don't like books so much

I am ambivalent about homework. I agree that content-wise it's not that important tbh but I think Yr 4 is a good time for them to be coming to terms with organising their time in the evenings, not having to be walked through it all

Ds has become much better at this during Yr 4, having been very scatty. The frequency and regularity has been key to this IMO

That's the same as DS had at his last shool, marina.

My worry is that he'll have a massive shock at senior school.

DD is yr 3 independent school. Max. 20 mins of English and 20 mins of maths each night, with a bigger project at weekends. One night a week is just learning spellings and times tables. Reading every night - around 30 minutes, but she does that in bed and is often found still reading far later than she should!

DS2 (state school) doesn't get much - suits me. Spellings/times tables he tends to know already. Reading he would do anyway.

Last half term the teacher 'cancelled' the regular worksheet homework for 6 members of the class and instead they did an ongoing project: ds2 really enjoyed that and put a lot of time into it.

In KS1 in the half term hols they usually have a project to build some kind of a model with parental assistance, (e.g. Roman Shield, model of the Iron Man, a working shaduf, that sort of thing). I don't particularly appreciate those sort of homeworks, but dh usually assists!

No homework in longer hols, which is great.