Y10 Easter homework

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So far this holiday dd has had one day off. Every other day has been spent on homework, almost from dawn to dusk, something like 10 hours a day, with small breaks.

She still has half of her ancient history to do, two paintings and a sculpture, a developed answer for RE, French and German.

She wasn't behind. This isn't catch up work. This is all homework set for the holidays.

The only reason she's had one day off was because we took her out. I asked her if she'd like to watch a film yesterday evening, she wanted to but refused as she had homework to do. I wanted to take her out today, but again she said she needed to get on with homework.

According to the school, she is among the brightest in her year. She is expected to do extremely well in her GCSEs. She is quite studious naturally anyway, but I am beginning to think that she may not get through to end of Y11 in a reasonable state of mind at this rate.

Is that much homework normal now? I did O levels in the early 70s, so have no idea.

I'd drop a Email to the HOY. It sounds to me like art and ancient history weren't aware of the MFL CAs.

I don't think DDs school do them to Y11 (when they clash with everything else and also cause grief)

DD1 has put art A level down for "stress relief" , I did biology, far more restful.

Until Y11

It sounds like more than average, but at least in part it's because of her combination of subjects . My yr10 DD has had a reasonable amount of actual homework, in addition to which she's put in quite a lot of time revising for the (internal) exams.

(Come to think the one subject I've not been aware of her doing anything is German - her one MFL and her least favourite subject. Hmmm...)

But she's had some days off - though as two of them were longish walks with her carrying a large pack to get used to it prior to DofE next month I'm not sure she'd call them rest days!

Gosh that's a lot.

My two have year 10 exams when they get back and have been doing around four hours of revision a day.

That's enough, surely?

I would have thought that was plenty, TheWordFactory.
MaryShelley, I shall tell her what you have said.

We did have a lovely day out together today. DD is much more relaxed this evening, though she has done some work. She did say this morning that the work she does will stand her in better stead in Sixth Form. I see her point and applaud her forward thinking, but I don't want her to burn.

I suspect that most of classmates won't have put in so much effort, so the teachers won't have to mark screeds from every pupil , but actually they have word count limits, so she won't hand in more, she'll just have done more background research. That is a good thing, but can make it harder to choose what to put in and what to leave out.

I have made the point about time management and exams before, but I'll remind her.