What's the homework like in the last couple of years of primary?

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Just that really. I'm hoping to move back to Glasgow in a year or so with my by then 10yo kids and I was wondering what the homework load is like generally? Here in Germany they have school to 1pm but they make up for it with about two hours a day of homework! It's a bloody nightmare.

Depends on the school really. Sometimes mine had a few pieces of work to do and sometimes they had none

It depends on the school and their approach to homework.

My 10yr old (P6) generally gets 10 spelling words to learn, 30mins of reading, a maths task (worksheet or online task) and some kind of topic based task (e.g. research environmental impact of plastic and present it as leaflet).

It probably take about 2 hours total over the week, it gets issued on a Wednesday to return by Monday.

Basically none, a 20 minute task in P7. I’ve moved my kids from private to state, Glasgow suburbs, and we are amazed at the lack of homework. My kids are in great, highly prized catchment schools. Same in senior school. I know the Irish and French school system well, and there is nothing like their workload.

Thanks for the answers! That sounds like much less. It probably works out similar to here as the kids are done at 1 but it always takes longer to do at home.

Having a couple of days to do it would be awesome, particularly if it was possible to do over the weekend. I'm planning to retrain as a teacher so I'll be well busy during the week. Here they just give you it with one day's notice, it means a lot of the kids with 2 working parents struggle to get it done. It's a really outdated system.

@nellnorth are you up in Jo Swinson territory by any chance? We're looking to move either there or to Hyndland/Jordanhill.

In my school, none.

None at our school.

Our school doesn't do homework from p4 upwards, they do projects based on the term subject and/or anything they like instead. So we get to spend many hours building models etc it's great fun!

My dd left primary school 18 months ago and the last year of homework was nonexistent. They revised for their SATS but this was done during school time

Neither of those, sorry OP

Depends on the school I think. Dd p7 gets a sheet with different quite fun tasks for each topic that they pick one a week plus some spelling words but there is no real pressure to do it. This is the same from p3. Well respected school in nice area where most parents work outside the home (pre covid) and dc in childcare then have extra curricular activities so they are understanding that time is limited for homework.

My DDs got far too much. Used to take hours. Spelling words , sentences featuring spelling words with whatever grammatical or punctuation feature they were covering. 3 out of 4 are dyslexic and that task was bloody draining after a day at school. Topic work usually some kind of Titanic, Viking long boat or wattle and daub dwelling model to construct whilst driving me to drink. Sometimes some numeracy work to reinforce the processes of the type of calculation they were covering in class. Which I always did in a different way.

Is a good primary in a very diverse area. Was exhausting at the time trying to fit it in after picking them up from after school club, feeding them, them getting to various activities.

School still follows a broadly similar homework schedule though more tech is involved.