How much work are your Y10s doing during lockdown?

[Titsywoo]

DD is sticking to her timetable and doing the best she can. Usually does the 5 hours of lessons each day plus an hour of homework or art coursework. The school is setting work but there are no online lessons just lots of powerpoints or things like Hegarty Maths. Nothing is being marked and there is very little feedback. Not complaining about the teachers, I'm sure they are doing their best. DD seems to think most of her friends are doing no work at all - not sure that is true but who knows?!

Interested to know how everyone else is getting on and feeling about it all! Personally I'm very worried but trying not too think about it too much since it is completely out of my control!

My DD has similar. There are lessons set via Google Classroom, but no 'live' online teaching. Tasks set, maybe the odd Powerpoint.
To date, nothing has been marked and no feedback has been given. I have, this week, complained to the school about this. How can you improve if you are not given feedback?
She is not invited back to school next week, which is in contrast to most local schools who are inviting year 10s back in rotation, becuase she is (apparently) doing so well at home. How they know this I am not sure since no work has been marked!

My daughter is following the timetable and does a full day's work, all different ways, power points, apps, videos some you tube some made by the teachers. No live teaching but Google meets are available, so for example she was struggling with a maths subject so she emailed her teacher and they had a google meet this morning when he went over it with her.

Loads of feedback from all the teachers, every subject is being marked. She is going back next week once a week for 3 hours for English, Maths and Science with the teachers moving around to them. State
School, I have been very impressed actually.

Mine did very little for the first few weeks and is now panicking. Certainly not 5 hours a day! She's now trying to offset and doing long days in an attempt to catch up before returning to school on the 23rd but has made it hard for herself. It's taught her a valuable lesson I think.

Mine is doing practically nothing; we argue about it every day. I also teach yr 10 and I'd say that anywhere between half and two thirds of kids are completing no work at all for my subject. All my colleagues are the same.

@blametheparents

My DD has similar. There are lessons set via Google Classroom, but no 'live' online teaching. Tasks set, maybe the odd Powerpoint. To date, nothing has been marked and no feedback has been given. I have, this week, complained to the school about this. How can you improve if you are not given feedback? She is not invited back to school next week, which is in contrast to most local schools who are inviting year 10s back in rotation, becuase she is (apparently) doing so well at home. How they know this I am not sure since no work has been marked!

That's crap @blametheparents - no child can really be "doing well" at this!

That sounds great @hellypad - is it a state school or independant?

@ODFOx - I'm sure she is not alone!

@surlycurly - maybe DD is not wrong when she says so many of her friends are doing nothing. It's going to be a very hard job for teachers to get everyone back up to speed in September (or whenever they go back!).

It's very stressful and I wish they were able to go back full time like some of the primary years are - I know it's much harder to work out for secondary though.

My DS is similar. I think he's doing the lessons every day but probably not spending a full 5 hours on them. He's got a bit behind with a couple of things. The school are doing more Google meets now than before - he has about 3 a day in addition to the full timetable.

He’s going back to school for 2 mornings from 23rd June.

Bit freaked out really because we just don’t know what is going to happen long term.

I think it's really important for Year 10s to be working hard and sticking to a good routine. If nothing else, it sets them up well for Year 11, when they really will need to be studying hard.

DS2 is in Year 10 and we were clear with him when lockdown started that we expected him to be working as if he were in school- so he has been doing his normal school timetable from 8.45 am - 3.15pm each day. We also expect him to do at least 2 hours of 'homework' and revision each night, as he normally would.

His school have been patchy- some subjects have been offering live lessons and homework tasks, others have sent home very little. In those subjects, we have purchased textbooks and we're helping DS to self study.

DS has been fairly good at sticking to his schedule. Like all boys, though, he has gone through periods where he has lost motivation. We have maintained our normal term time rules though- free time has to be earned. So he (like all our DC) has to ask to watch TV or play Xbox and he knows we won't give it unless he's done his 'school day' plus 2 hours' revision!

We are letting him have weekends free from schoolwork at the moment, but DH wants to start him doing a few hours' extra revision on a Sunday to get a strong work ethic established for Year 11.

DS is doing full live timetable, so starts with registration at 8.30 and continues to 4.00, with breaks. Then has homework which is usually about 2 hours. Has live lessons, but depends on how tech savvy the teacher is, how much the teacher actually teaches via the screen. Also has a pretty full on weekend with homework. DS is doing more than he did when he was actually in school, but the structure is really helping him, it obviously suits him.

Work is marked. They are having end of topic tests. Usually have end of year exams but no mention of them.

We are very pleased with what is being provided and are very grateful that DS has fully embraced it. They have been offered a couple of hours in school a week from next week if they want to come in but I think it is more a chance to meet up with friends with social distancing. They will do face to face contact virtually.

It's a state school @Titsywoo

DD2 is year 8 there too and whilst she is being set a full time table she isn't getting as much feedback so I think they are concentrating on year 10.

Apparently not as much as I thought. Classcharts has been showing work as 'completed'.
Had a TAC meeting with his HOY today and apparently they haven't recieved any work from him and classcharts doesnt (or at least shouldn't) show work as being done and I should have been checking Microsoft 365.
I'm annoyed that it's taken 3 months for anyone to tell me this! Especially as my family worker has now minuted that I haven't been making him keep on top of work

Dd started off doing approx 4 hours/day M-F tending to dedicate individual days to core subjects and 2 option subjects on remaining days.

Yesterday she did none & there is definitely a lessening of motivation. There has been no live teaching. There was one video call for Spanish. Apparently staff are being trained on MS Teams this week so hopefully things may go beyond consolidation

Independent school with full schedule of live online teaching. Back to school Monday one day a week for art, art award, DT and sciences with teachers, the rest online (year divided into three clusters with each cluster going in one day and the rest of students doing it online from home - they will sit in their set, and as there are five sets in maths for example it must have been an absolute nightmare to schedule). Lots of homework and exams. They've also extended the term by two weeks.
Can't fault them they have been great, lots of feedback, all homework marked, kids can ask questions and be asked. They do it on Teams and there have been no safeguarding issues (school is nursery to upper sixth and all years are doing it online, younger years back now of course but the rest are working online to their appropriate level). School helped out a few families that did not have enough equipment.

Not complaining about the teachers, I'm sure they are doing their best

How can you think that if they are not marking work or sending feedback?

The full timetable, three live lessons a day usually plus homework, any work sent in is being marked.

I'm shocked by the parents who say true work isn't being marked. We use teams for work being submitted and the comments section on that is full when I return work to the kids. Every single piece, although it's sometimes photographs of jotters which are posted upside down or sideways. So hard to mark them to be fair! But still, everything gets some constructive feedback. I'm not alone; anyone at my school not doing so would be in trouble.

@LaureBerthaud

Not complaining about the teachers, I'm sure they are doing their best

How can you think that if they are not marking work or sending feedback?

I was under the impression teachers had been told not to mark work during this period? A teacher mentioned it on another thread.

Oh DD has just said 3 of her subjects have been marking so not as bad as I thought but still 6 with very little contact including art who have been rubbish ("just draw!").

Dd's form tutor said they can email in work or a photo of it to be marked if they want feedback, so it's optional. Dd is in year 8 though

I don't understand why work would not be marked - what's the reason?

State school. Working roughly 9-6 per day (school lessonsand homework), had exams so did extra revision. A handful of live lessons. Offered eight 3hr mornings in school until end of term.

9-6 each day is too long.

9-6?! That's a hell of a lot.

She has a break for lunch and doesn't usually do homework in the evenings or weekends during lockdown so see more of her than we usually do. She is aiming for high grades so if she wasn't set on a competitive career she could do less work.

My younger children are less diligent if that cheers anyone up. They aim to finish by mid morning or lunchtime and watch TV/ game!