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How much work are your Y10s doing during lockdown?

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Titsywoo · 10/06/2020 21:30

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!

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TW2013 · 11/06/2020 17:58

9-6 is similar to NovemberDecember and ineedaholidaynow dc - school day plus 2 hrs homework, which is sort of what I would expect in yr10.

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Titsywoo · 11/06/2020 17:59

@littlequestion

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

Maybe they are part of this union? www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-teachers-told-not-mark-or-plan-lessons

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ToothFairyNemesis · 11/06/2020 18:01

Six hours a day via google classroom plus work at weekends another 4-5 hours. Dd is top set in a grammar school.

Mominatrix · 11/06/2020 18:41

Y10s are back in school in my children's schools.

ToothFairyNemesis · 11/06/2020 19:10

School have recently started using google meet as they are not going back into school.

NovemberDecember · 11/06/2020 19:22

@LaureBerthaud

It's not too much at all- the students who get 9's next year will be those who are working hard now. 9-6 with breaks is a perfectly reasonable expectation.

DH is from South Korea and the students there are the ones doing too much! He believes DC need to have a strong work ethic ingrained from a young age.

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Titsywoo · 11/06/2020 20:27

@Mominatrix

Y10s are back in school in my children's schools.

I assume independent then?

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Rosieposy4 · 11/06/2020 20:32

Triple set 28 at least out of 31 are completing all their work each work ( though not necessarily the extension stuff) I mark one piece per student each week, they self assess the rest ( that is actually really useful for students if they engage with the process) after I have marked each work individually then i usually make a video explaining key issues.
Combined set about 50-60% only are doing all the work, a worrying number are doing nothing, despite my online entreaties.

blametheparents · 11/06/2020 20:34

Personally, I am getting more frustrated by the lack of marking than anything else.
Zoom teaching would be great, but that’s not going to happen.
But, asking the class do to a geography test and telling them that they should take this test seriously and then not bothering to mark it is ridiculous. My DD was given the mark scheme and told to do it herself.
Ditto English. Tests completed and no feedback given. I’d be better off asking my DD to watch Mr Bruff for her set texts.

Rosieposy4 · 11/06/2020 20:37

Live teaching is not the be all and end all of teaching though. Just because a lot of private schools are doing it, mainly to keep the parents paying, people seem to think it is the gold standard of remote Teaching. We are doing some live teaching to specific years only and I think the students are making good progress without the live lessons and certainly they way we have it set up they are of marginal benefit and we are only getting about 50% uptake so the students obviously don’t see them as super valuable.

TheFormerPorpentiaScamander · 11/06/2020 20:37

9-6 is more than my DCs schools are expecting. I specifically asked about homework and was told there isn't any as it's all being done at home.

HappySonHappyMum · 11/06/2020 20:57

I printed out 635 sheets of work at the beginning of this half term - all broken into 9 subjects with six weeks work for each subject for my Y10. She is working 9-3 everyday but - it's not teaching is it! It's revision on past work rather than new topics. Teaching is more than giving someone a sheet of work and telling them to get on with it. She will be in for 3 hours a week for the next 4 weeks. Her school have been great and I won't be expecting her to work through her summer holiday she's been working hard since lockdown and deserves a break before Y11 hits which will be long and hard and tough.

SE13Mummy · 11/06/2020 21:24

DD in Y10 (state comp) has work set in line with the timetable each day and I'd say it usually takes 3-4 hours for her to complete. An increasing number of subjects are scheduling live follow-up or discussion sessions for the second half of a lesson/in response to independent work. These are done via MSTeams whereas work is set on SMHW. I've been extremely impressed by the detailed feedback DD is receiving from all but one of the subjects. She's not been invited into school for next week as the school is prioritising students who've not engaged with the work.

Flippinfab40 · 11/06/2020 21:55

DD in state school has work set on Friday for the following week. It is being marked with lots of feedback and teachers are chasing if it isn't submitted. It seems ok for some subjects but she really needs teaching in others.

Her maths teacher has made short YouTube videos to explain new things. In the past week lessons on MS Teams have increased to one a week for most subjects. All these are recorded for anybody who didn't log on to the live session.

From next week she'll do one day a week in school where she will have two hours each of maths, English and science.

I don't really know how long she is spending working as it is interspersed with YouTube etc but she is getting done what she needs to. She recognised herself that she is losing motivation working at home so the Teams lessons and day a week at school are very welcome.

LaureBerthaud · 11/06/2020 23:34

9-6 home learning is too long for yr10. It really is.

SisterVanHelsing · 11/06/2020 23:40

My dd sticks to the timetable but gets everything done in the morning then meets friends or goes out for a walk with me in the afternoon. All work set on Monday, using various online platforms. Very little in the way of feedback - maths and German seem to be the only subjects giving anything back.

We have a problem with her perfectionism making her unwilling to actually submit the work once done. She will do it when prompted.

From next week her music teacher is doing live teaching on MS Teams. I'm hoping some of the others will follow.

Kittio · 11/06/2020 23:58

Have you asked about the marking Titsy and they've said they're not going to? I asked the form tutor about it and she said to email it in if they want it marked. Or is your dc emailing it in and getting no reply?

bumblingbovine49 · 12/06/2020 00:28

Our school ( state one) has live lessons . A proper timetable and everything. it took about 4-5 weeks before they offered that though. I get weekly timetables emailed tomme.

Before that it was just set work on show my homework which is marked or. so I am told by friends anyway as DS has down exactly nothing . He has not done anything at all.
Now it is live lessons plus set work on show my homework.

bumblingbovine49 · 12/06/2020 00:31

I wonder if the children who are doing ok will be more independent learners after this. It might not be a bad thing for some though it has been terrible for many

ineedaholidaynow · 12/06/2020 00:36

@HappySonHappyMum my DS is learning new topics, they are working their way through the syllabus for each subject. It is not revision. I wonder if they will get them to do revision through the summer holiday.

HappySonHappyMum · 12/06/2020 06:35

@ineedaholidaynow My DD is definitely not learning new topics - she keeps moaning that she's only going over old ground. She does have an advantage though as her school runs 3 year GCSE courses so there will still be time to fit everything in.

Mominatrix · 12/06/2020 07:47

Yes, independent schools.

Full timetable since lockdown, no worksheets, and even graded assessments. They are in school physically for regular schedule starting Monday.

ScrapThatThen · 12/06/2020 07:58

She works about 3-4 hours from 8.30 am but the days vary a lot due to procrastination and how she is feeling. Coffee needed sometimes. However she tends to also do work all across the evenings and weekends, on and off. She's just about doing all the lessons set, but spending too long on some tasks hence falling behind. Her school are having those who have not engaged with home learning back first, so she won't be back in school for a bit.

cptartapp · 12/06/2020 08:08

DS is doing about three hours a day. Mostly powerpoints, worksheets etc but two teachers doing zoom lessons which have been great. One subjects work was 'tidy your file' this week. No telephone contact from the school at all. Not good enough.
I also have a year 12 who seems to be faring better.
Very worried.

BellsaRinging · 12/06/2020 08:19

Pretty similar to lots on here. State school-work set is typically 'read this and do the questions'. Some PowerPoint and links to you tube videos. No marking. No live lessons till this week when they had 2 15-30 minute meetings online for options subjects to set course work. I am working f/t and he's at a computer during the school day but often coming in and asking what to do as he does the work in 2 hours. To a crap standard, but I don't have the time to mark it and explain it and tbh some subjects I dont understand or didnt study.
It's a complete crock of shit and I can only imagine all his year are behind unless they have parents who aren't working and are teaching them f/t.

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