Homework in Year 7

[mahonia7]

Hi Everyone

My DS goes to a fairly good comprehensive and is in the top sets. I am worried as he has so little homework. Most of it I don't see as he finishes it off at the end of the lesson. The only homework I see every week is about 5 minutes of maths.

Is this normal? At the moment I am setting him a bit of Spanish and French vocab each week and asking him to read a book.

Thanks

I was quite surprised last year that my DS got so little homework when he was in Yr7.

He too goes to a fairly good comprehensive and is in the top sets, but i have no wider experience.

One of my mindees was in year 7 last year and she thought it was wonderful that she got less homework than her 5 year old brother! It soon changed though, year 8 got everso much tougher!

My DD goes to a Grammar and when she went back in June the School moved them up a yr, so although to you and me she is yr 7 in her school she is a yr 8. (sorry this is long winded) upshot is know she gets 90 mins a subject a day in home work; to much in my opinion, especially as some days she has three lots of homework. Today she was given English to be in for tomorrow. Her school has a 2 week timetable rotation and by the looks of things this will happen 3 times in that 2 weeks.

ds2 is in year 7 and is supposed to get 3 subjects each night - approx 20 - 30 mins each. He's rarely given that much, though.

when my dd was in yr7 she had loads of homework,about 3-4 pieces a night,each piece taking about 30mins.It was quite a shock at the time!

our ds is the same as fortyplus's. It started off quite heavily but these days he seems to do very little.

He's a lazy little so and so, though so not sure he's putting it in his homework diary.

He should be getting more than that , ours get about half an hour a night.

We have a project system that should be done over the week.

Please feedback tot he school if you think he is not getting homework, if enough parents do this the school will address the issue, as we did following parental complaints.

Why are you worried? I'd enjoy and encourage him to enjoy and value his free time. It will change as he gets older and I'm sure he'll cope!

You should have been issued with hwk timetable at start of year. This should say how much your dc gets in each subject and when.

Hi

Thanks for your replies. He does have a homework timetable in his planner but the teachers are not setting any homework apart from a few minutes of maths most weeks.

I am quite worried about it hopefully things will change in year 8.

M

Often at this time of year kids are on trips or activities. Would this account for any lack of homework?

I still don't understand why you're worried about this..

My dd goes to secondary in September and I an dreading the homework. I think that if the school is keeping them busy and working hard during the day there should be no need of much homework until GCSE time. My dd does lots of out of school activities and it seems such a shame that she'll have to give some of them up - I really think that Scouts,dancing and music lessons are more important and valuable than homework when you're 11!

The thing that really annoys my ds is that a lot of the homework isn't even marked. It's hard to force him to do it when we both know he won't get any credit for it anyway.

I owuld worry if the school is not adhering to its own homworkpolicy as it suggests they are not in control of the students learning.

I would also worry if your son is not doing the set work, particulalry if this has started as early as year 7as this suggests problems that need to be nipped in the bud.

As a teacher who marks diligently please report work that is going unmarked - another sign that something is going wrong.