Yr7 Homework

[WellGoshDarnIt]

DD started Yr7 at a grammar school 3 weeks ago. All seemed to be going well initially, despite the fact she didn't know anyone there. She settled in well and made new friends quickly, so we were delighted.
However, her primary school gave virtually NO homework at all and she's finding it very hard to adjust. The homework load isn't even that bad - half an hour to 45 minutes per night, (some nights there's none at all). To be frank, she is undoubtedly lazy - she was one of the 'clever ones' at primary, and she hardly needed to put any effort in at all. I spent ages over the summer explaining to her how different secondary would be, how she'd really need to apply herself, but I fear it all fell on deaf ears.
Today she's had an almighty weep because she's pretty sure she flunked a test in science, (she hasn't even had her marks yet!). Their homework was just to go over what they'd been taught in class in preparation for said test. I encouraged her, sat with her, offered to test her but she was insistent that she 'knew it'. Now we've got tears and declarations of hatred for the school, plus moaning that her friends who went to the comp have 'NO homework!' (Yeah, right!).
Part of me feels sad for her and wants to gather her up and tell her it's not her fault; the other part is thinking, well what did you expect if you didn't learn it properly? I know it's a learning curve but if anyone can reassure me this is all completely normal I'd appreciate it .
Ps. She passed the 11+ comfortably, not a top score or anything, but perfectly respectable, so I'm quite sure the work isn't too hard for her.

My DD years ago went from a no homework primary school to a boarding school in y7 with set prep every night. Obviously without Covid, but she did it and was perfectly ok. The organised child can do it. She got near top score in our 11 plus (1 mark off) but hadn’t done French and everyone else at the school had come from private preps. I think they need resilience, confidence and organisation in equal measure for the transition to y7.

I thought Show My Homework was a great invention... no more quizzing DD on what she had to do and when, and last minute panic when she remembered the poster/model/large thing involving a trip to Poundland and half the contents of Rymans.

No, life would be simple and organised with this wondrous App.

Four weeks on, I am starting to hate the wretched thing. Half the year seem to be quarantining, or off sick and so it's a mix of instructions depending on whether you are in school or out of school, I can figure out how you check the wretched thing if the homework is to "hand in in class" and the blooming thing keeps telling me at set intervals that DD hasn't done x, y or z.

School are also using it for messages to parents (as well as the gazillion emails).

My blood pressure is rising by the day... I thought secondary was where I got to hand back my child's education and the nightmare memories of homeschooling through Covid lockdown would recede!

On the upside, the actual homework is short and achievable without too much trauma.

OhCrumbs, Are they answering questions about the homework, or just using it for general emails? I thought we were getting some rather unhelpful responses and then realised they were autoemails. The boys' school's science department seems to have two people putting up the homework, the actual teacher and the Head of Science - both of them have ended up with what looks like the same pieces of work listed twice and it's very annoying.