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Join our Primary Education forum to discuss starting school and helping your child get the most out of it.

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When do your children do their homework ?

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Pitchounette · 30/07/2009 08:58

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LalalaNotlistening · 07/08/2009 20:17

We try to do it about an hour before bed and on sunday eve at the weekend . I say try as usually this is after my nagging ,threatening and then quietly sobbing in the corner whilst DS huffs and throws me evil looks .DD ,however, would happily do homework all night .

fridayschild · 07/08/2009 18:32

My two are early risers - I refuse to get out of bed till 6.30am, but they are awake well before that. This gives us plenty of time to get dressed, have breakfast and a good nag about practising reading instead of beating up your brother before I leave at 8.30.

I can see if you had a child who woke later, and needed to leave earlier for school, breakfast would not be a great homework time.

Pitchounette · 06/08/2009 17:22

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MitchyInge · 05/08/2009 20:57

I didn't let my children do homework until they were about 8, unless they were really keen on some project or other.

OrmIrian · 05/08/2009 20:55

When they get fed up of being nagged usually.

Pitchounette · 05/08/2009 20:54

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sunnydelight · 05/08/2009 10:35

It just doesn't work for us unless it's done pretty much as soon as we get in. Mine get the bus home so it's 4pm by the time they are in so quick snack and straight to it. DD is in kindy (reception) and has 1/2 reading books which we're expected to read every night Mon-Thur, she gets 6 sight words to learn and a memory verse to remember. Occasionally there's an optional task (eg. find as many sh words as you can in your books) which we rarely do.

DS2 is Y4 and is expected to complete his 4/5 tasks in 40 minutes (spellings, times tables, mathletics, reading etc.) He often asks for a rest before starting but I find if I give him longer than 20 minutes or so he moans about doing the work so it's kinder in the long run to make him get it out of the way asap. DS1 is old enough to manage himself.

I'm in awe of those who manage anything before school - mine leave the house at 7.50am though, I'm guessing you're later?

fridayschild · 02/08/2009 20:06

We do homework and reading at breakfast time. I work FT and this is the time that works best for us.

TrinityRhinoIsInDetention · 02/08/2009 09:30

dd1 is 9
she has always just done her homework immeadiately when she walks in
but she loves school, wants more homework, is very bright
it just gets it out of the way and then they switch off from school till the next day

Pitchounette · 02/08/2009 09:26

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TheInvisibleManDidIt · 01/08/2009 23:39

As soon as they get home from school- even before they change into play clothes. That way they're still in a school frame of mind and will sit and do it all no bother.

applepudding · 01/08/2009 23:34

Reading - every night in bed before DS goes to sleep, I read a page, he reads a page etc - sometimes school books, sometimes library books.

Maths homework - Saturday or Sunday

Spellings - when we remember!

katiestar · 30/07/2009 21:47

I'm anti-homework for primary school aged children. Except for reading when children aren't yet ready to read to themselves.
I found it best hearing them in the morning when they were fresh.

Pitchounette · 30/07/2009 17:29

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islandofsodor · 30/07/2009 10:44

Dd did her homework last year in the waiting room of the ballet school as homework night co-incided with ballet night and we had a bit of a wait around.

I'm a bit anti homwork at primary level so I don't fuss too much over it and send the odd snotty note in if anyone says anything.

Pitchounette · 30/07/2009 10:28

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poopscoop · 30/07/2009 09:44

every day, usually after tea, or when they are tucked up in bed. Just a few mins a day and it will click.

Mine are older now, so this is going back a bit. But still reading with the 9 year old.

Pitchounette · 30/07/2009 09:30

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slng · 30/07/2009 09:23

DS1 had homework everyday for reception. We do what we feel like doing, eg write and draw about what you did over weekend - DS1 loves drawing and I usually have to stop him and tell him to go and play. We ignore what we don't like. We do them usually after school. Only just before term ended we started doing the words after DS2 has gone to bed. It's all nonsense anyway. Do what you like and ignore what you don't like, that's my policy. Makes for a happier family. Down with tyranny of school.

poopscoop · 30/07/2009 09:20

Exactly what i feel seeker. I have always read with my dc but as for all the other rubbish they are given at such a young age, i do not worry about at all.

They are exhausted from being at school for 6 hours let alone having 'paperwork' in the evenings.

Pitchounette · 30/07/2009 09:14

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seeker · 30/07/2009 09:14

I'd do the reading but nothing else.

Homework at this age serves no purpose at all - it's just that [some] parents like it.

And spelling tests do nothing but teach children how to do spelling tests. A lot of schools have abandoned spelling tests altogether.

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mankyscotslass · 30/07/2009 09:09

Seeker, DD was in reception this year, she got 4 sight words to learn and 2 reading books 3 times a week! at least there was no maths homework for her, and what she did get only took about 15 minutes, including the reading.

Pitchounette · 30/07/2009 09:09

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gill89 · 30/07/2009 09:08

usually under duress the night before it is due in

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