What work is your school setting during lockdown?

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ds#1 is year 11 and has been set nothing, ds#2 is yr 8 and has a few worksheets that take about 10 mins to do and that's it. Compare that to the school I work in that seems to be doing a full timetable with online lessons. What is your secondary school doing?

There’s an issue with setting year 11 work because of the way gcse results are going to be awarded. Lots of schools have been told not to set them anything until the government clarify the situation, most likely later this week.

DD y10.
The guidance to teachers is to set work for each lesson that should only take ~30mins or so instead of a full hour.
They can send in typed or photos to be marked (or google forms).
Quite a bit of 'revise this topic on seneca' for some subjects.
Some subjects setting per lesson, other per block of lessons.
No 'live' lessons or work due on day.

I don't know how long the work will really take as DD isn't mentally well enough right now to do more than 30-60 mins per day.

Ds year 10, worksheets to be completed and sent back, videos to watch, books to read, essays to write, things to design (computer science) he’s getting loads from every subject. Then everything is marked and we are getting feedback.

DS yr9 and DS yr7 both having about 50% of lessons given online and work to be completed for the other 50%. Following school timetable is working well for them and they are online with classmates to do some of the work together. Really proud of the school for working so hard to get this going and of the boys for getting into good routines.

Year 10 here, pretty much what everyone else has said. About five hours a day plus reading and challenges

Y7- work set on Monday for that week. Only about 8hrs worth so enjoying lots of time for reading and art tbh. We've signed up for doodle maths as that's the only concerning subject.

Too much!
Year 8. The work is set through Showbie. Full timetable but each lesson takes far longer than the 55 minute lesson time.
We are still trying to catch up on last week!

My kids get online assignments through Teams and Google Classroom for every lessons of the day. Texts to read, quizzes to answer, videos to watch, essays to write and worksheet to complete.
About 4hrs a day for my Y7 boys and closer to 6hrs for my Y12 son.

Y13 son was told to continue revising, but didn't get any set work.

Following normal timetable with work set on their VLEs.
Year 8 doing 2-3hrs each day and year 10 doing 3-4hrs.

Our school is using Canvas which is ok for homework or assignments during holidays but not really a "full time learning"tool. Myself and other parents have already contacted our school asking to look at implementing Google classroom or something similar if this lock-down continues for a long time (which is likely).They have replied that they are NOT interested in live video streaming the lessons for safeguarding reasons...other schools are able to navigate the safeguarding issues...

Interesting re live lessons. Our school hasn't given the safeguarding as a reason rather that teachers are stuck in their homes with their own families and they want to protect their work life balance and well being, so work is being set on Google classroom with feedback once a week.
However, our council music service is saying no to online lessons because of safeguarding so we've had to arrange it privately with our DDs teacher and it's costing a lot more than through the council. Not sure how safeguarding comes into play when you can set a virtual background quote easily if that's the issue.

DS2 Y12 is following his new normal timetable with lessons on Microsoft Teams. They had mocks the week schools were closed, and were actually sent home on exam leave on the Tuesday morning but we're trained on Teams before they left. School clearly saw it coming! Key stage 3 and 4 aren't using it though.

My reception child has phonics book reading numbers number line writing numbers creative task takes all day. Yr5 dd has maths literacy and guided reading and s task and poem

Yr8 DS is set work to follow the timetable most of it is on Doddle, SENCA, Duolingo etc. It takes less time than the lesson as obviously there is no distractions, explanations from the teacher etc. They are also regular emails back and forth with the teachers. Seems a decent amount not too much or too little.

Year 5 - work for the week set via MS TEAMS which has included, English assignments, powerpoint presentations, maths, spag, TT Rockstars, accelerator reading quiz, speedy maths and other bits and pieces/worksheets etc.
School have said not all is expected to be completed, it is there as challenge and not an expectation. Head teacher has said to all parents not to expect feedback on work as they are also trying to manage their own wellbeing and families, but our teacher has sent feedback and is very interactive with the children on microsoft teams which has been really nice and has said we will get some fun things to complete should we wish to over the Easter. However, good level of contact from school via letters/social media updates.

Year 8 Time tabled lessons including P.E set each day via Google Classroom. Has had music lessons via FaceTime.
Not had any other contact/feedback on work from school at all for 3 weeks now but I assume they are focusing more on the higher year groups which is understandable.

Yes. All normal lessons according to the planner. The teacher for each lesson is available during this normal lesson time to ask questions and to ask for help. The lesson is set in advance for the child to work through on their own unless they need help. They then submit it on the school system for the teacher to mark and give feedback. My son gets dressed into his uniform and we work as though he is at school. Same routine in the morning, Stops for breaks and lunch at the same times a school. Then finishes his school day at 15:45 as normal and changes out of school clothes. This way he knows what is expected and he just gets on with it. I ask to see his work and I ask him questions about it to clarify understanding. This works very well for us.

Absolutely loads (Y8). They've just thrown a whole load of assignments at them with seemingly random deadlines - 6-page worksheets due in in July but major projects by the end of the week. Seven substantial pieces of work to be done over the Easter holidays, when they'd ordinarily have had one or two at most. DS is floundering big-time :(