5 year old is bored at school

[Parkrunmum10]

So my daughter is in a composite class
year 1 but there are kids in her class that are year reception.
last term she really wasn't doing much writing - I'd say based on what I've seen she did more last year in actual reception but they did some grammar, sentence structure prep and reading (can't fault the reading provision) but very very little writing (maybe 6 spellings a week done at home and all term I'd say 5 sentences)
fast forward to this term and they now do writing 3-4 x a week either in phonics ( writing out the ou sound words on a worksheet ) or in focus time they've been working on bossy verbs and time connections- fair enough (imo a term behind but hey ho)
the problem is they've been working for the last 3-4 weeks on a single set of sentences- instructions for some activity - they've tried to make it fun by doing the actual activity but it's very dry and hard to see how anyone could be enthusiastic 🤦‍♀️
well she's just not having it at all - we've had meetings with the teacher and we've encouraged and talked about getting on with boring tasks sometimes. And sometimes we have to repeat tasks to get sticky memory etc
the teacher asked if she found writing hard but we have no issues writing at home but we'd never revisit the same subject that often and her writing is genuinely lovely and neat, good spelling (or at least phonetically plausible) finger spaces coming along capitals and full stops she even understands questions.
my question is is it normal to spend this long on a small task? Surely if they've mastered it they should move on- week 1 of term I can see she wrote it out fine what's the goal/ aim / learning value of this level of focus

when I was at school we wrote what we wanted and used that paper with a big blank bit and lines under that you could just draw anything and write about it then the teacher would explain the correct spelling punctuation and grammar etc and you'd rewrite it once and move on. I can't help but think this new system is so dull it's a wonder anyone gets into writing now 🫣

For example today at home she did a mini beasts writing exercise
rearranging the sentence to make sense (words given) writing it out and then she wanted to write more about mini beasts so did 2 free form sentences
worms are living creatures ( plausible but not correct spelling) all punctuation correct
and
caterpillars eat leaves and turn into butterflies (as above plausible spelling if not fully correct and all punctuation included)
so I can't help but think the level at school is just not clicking with her at all and the amount of repetition is driving her bananas and leading to her switching off entirely
any solutions? We have another teacher conference after half term and I've asked to see all her work for the year.

That sounds quite low for this time of year to be honest. And yes quite common to use time.connectives to begin sentences. But every week should be a different story or thing. Depends on scheme they use

Strange that that's how they've mixed the classes. I went to a tiny primary school but the reception class were always alone and they grouped 1 and 2, 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 so that the learning levels were closer together.

That mixing doesn't sound fair on either age group.

This sounds poor but ive read your other posts op (eg re reading) & the school sounds poor generally. At our school the weakest y1 kids are on blue/green level books, the more able are on orange & above. My aug born y1 DD would be doing more writing than this.

How is their ks2 attainment relative to national?

They are rated good and get good results
it's in wales so they have no assessment until the end of year 2 not 1 like England so it's hard for me to really see if it's the school the teacher or the class
if we had an alternative option we'd take it
I'm even tempted by home school but I work full time and so does her dad so it's impractical