Question about S3 grading and homework

[susanjc9]

We moved to Scotland from overseas and my daughter is in S3 in a private school. She finds it very easy and has very little homework. Most of the work she spends a few minutes doing before or during school. She is taking 8 subjects, but doesn't feel challenged. She did mention that they tend to spend a lot more time on topics than they did in her school last year (ie what they covered in 1 week they would take a month to cover here).

I think part of the problem is she has already learned some of the maths topics before and caught up on those that the class learned last year but she didn't have. Her autumn report was all 1's with A for effort. Is this typical? We thought it would be much harder and the work load would be heavier.

Agree with WaxOn - every school will produce something different. There are standardised tests in S3 as far as I recall but these are mroe about checking the school is doing OK as much as giving grades to the kids, and I'm not even sure private schools do those anyway.

Would it maybe not be easier to get someone from the Scottish school to ring the American school and speak to them? And if she's back to the same school she left a year previously, they know what kind of student she is anyway.