How much homework in Year 7?

[CrabbyTheCrabster]

I'm just wondering how much homework your Y7s get/got? Do they get homework every lesson/subject? How long are they expected to spend on each piece?

Wow starfish that's a lot of studying. She deserves her good grades!

Ours varies - but said to expect about 6 hours per subject per half term - some subjects will use it all at once (History project for instance) some will set half an hour to an hour per week.

My girls have never seemed overrun by homework - but others often get given stuff that has not been completed in class - when luckily mine have already done it.

You'll probably find it comes out slowly during the first couple of weeks in the term and then it's all systems go. If you know she's going to be busy seeing friends a couple of evenings and then there's things you want to do as a family one weekend, it's worth pointing out she won't have much free time to catch up at the weekend, just so she knows there are evenings when maybe 2-3 hours are needed. It's a bit of a shock to start with and the first term of the year always seems worse for us, but does work out.

ds has 13 30 min homeworks a week. The school are also super keen on extra-curricular activities and from Sat to Mon he spent 10 hours on rugby related activities. Not quite sure where they think all of the time comes from.

My dc's school have very relaxed attitude to homework, one in y8 and the other just gone into sixth form. I had concerns over lack of homework but this did not stop dd from getting really good gcses in all 11 subjects. However, i do wish more work had been set on a regular basis because it was a struggle to get my dd, who wanted the good grades, to go from no work after school to doing a couple of hours a night to study for exams.

Well, DD2 came home with three lots today - but none due next day. She had 50 pages of reading yesterday, did it, only to be told that the book has now been changed because Yr9 need it (it was The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and she was really getting into it, so am now getting it out of the library for her).