Y7 Homework in the first full week

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How much have others got?

DD has had 9 pieces. None are of the covering books variety. All are proper work. She is a little shocked by the amount.

DS had

8 difficult maths us with lots of parts on prime numbers. It was hard.

Write a paragraph on why Voldemorts nose is flat and skim read an article, write down what you think is important about it, read it carefully and then write down what's actually in it and assess whether the skim reading worked, for English.

Create a time line of his life, annotated with photos and info for history

Cover 3 exercise books

Prepare ingredients for a cooking lesson and pack them up to take in tomorrow

German vocabulary to learn and a simple conversation ( hello, how are you, how old are you, where do you live type plus answers)

Science - research the energy requirements of kids and teenagers and find out the energy content of favourite foods

Geography - print out some volcano pictures, and label a map with some countries/ capital cities

The maths, science and history all took a long time, the rest he did quite quickly.

hehe no one but me wants to meet DT!

They write it in their book so anyone non cool is safe.

DD had her first full week last week and got around 3 pieces of homework each day. Not too difficult, just time consuming. It takes her between 0.5 hour to 1.5 hours depending on what is needed. I'm not sure what she needs to do, I only ask whether she has finished.

The hardest pieces have been revising for a MFL test, she's not sure what form this test will be (verbal or written) and doing a timeline for history - she chose to do it on the pc and got herself into a tizz over the formatting

I think I'm fortunate though that she does all her homework on the day that it's set, rather than leaving things until they're due. Some of her friends are doing that and have already let things pile up.

Not much really.

German and Spanish vocab.

IT: finish writing a survey and get 4 people to respond.

Science: plan and write up an experiment on what impact adding salt has on the time taken for ice cubes to melt.

PHSE: 20 mins written work on how she felt on first day of term

No maths because they were testing last week.

English: 20mins on a first memory

I have a feeling this is them being eased into it rather than what should be expected for the rest of the term!