Have your Yr11 and yr13 schools stopped setting work?

[NotBabiesForLong]

I have children in both yr11 and 13. I am seeing huge disparity between local schools. Some have virtually stopped everything on the basis that teachers are assessing, whilst other schools are setting more than ever due to current unknowns...

I am interested to know what your school is doing, more or less than usual.

Very stressful for our kids seeing these different approaches and not knowing what is going on.

6th form college - carrying on as usual.

What?! Seems bonkers that they would stop setting work when the Ofqual consultation suggests that we will be assessing pupils up till May, possibly June.

Do you mean they’ve stopped teaching the course and only doing revision or stopped everything?

Absolutely not. DD2's academic workload in Yr 13 is as it ever was.

That's crazy. They need to consolidate their knowledge of the curriculum and grow their brains.

Y11 DD has her usual workload plus internal exams

Y11 and 13 teaching is going on as normal where I am.

Same here - usual workload plus we got an email this morning from DS (Year 11)'s school with details of 'practice tests' (under exam conditions) when they return in March as they think OFQUAL is going to insist on some sort of high stakes 'terminal assessments' (under exam conditions) in the Summer Term. I find it difficult to understand what OFQUAL are up to - replacing one set of exams with other 'tests' under exam conditions where no one knows what will be tested or when!

Burwell mum - that thought is creating a lot of continuous anxiety for DD. She feels like every day and every lesson is an "exam".

Anecdotally, in our area (based on oarent friends), 50% of schools seem to be doing little more than a couple of worksheets. This is supported by the number of children spending their days sledging.

It is hard to motivate my 2 when they are all day on live lessons followed by lots and lots of work set - when they see many friends and peers with very very little to do.

Year 13 here, normal workload. Coursework, essays, tests. They will have finished History curriculum by Half Term, so everything after that is consolidation and tests. In English, they are starting to go back on earlier texts, again for consolidation, and post half term tests. They have cancelled mocks though, and if needed will do something akin to end of year tests after Easter.

Sixth form carrying on as usual.
Year 11 down to four days teaching a week so they can have a break and read books one day instead!!! Yeah right!
English online down to two lessons a week now and triple science every other day.
Not good enough IMO but what can you do?

Y11 here with a full timetable of lessons and plenty of homework so pretty much carrying on as normal. DH and I go for a walk every day and there's rarely any kids out so i'm assuming it's the same for most of the local schools.

Y11 full timetable of lessons, feels like constant assessment - certainly in English and Maths.

Y11, full timetable, still working through the course content.

Although I remember my dd in y11 at this point was doing a full day at school, with some lunchtime revision sessions, and then rather a lot of homework and revision at weekends. Whereas Ds1 is doing 5 lessons a day Mon-Fri.

But given how hard it is to work alone at home (no live lessons) and how de-motivating it is to have no idea how you will be assessed, I think that’s fair.

Ours have told them to focus on the new work they are currently teaching them, no assessments will be done remotely, any marking is only to clarify the class is picking up the topic ok. The idea being once they have firmer dates when they are going to be back in there will be assessment blocks which as they are further along will contain more content and can be used for assessing grades. They said they will give enough notice of assessments so they will have time to revise before them.

ds is doing 9am - 5pm (with breaks and a lunchtime dog walk) to cover classes and set work, then 6-7 hrs over the weekend revising (not much else to be doing so he doesn't mind keeping busy!)

My Y11 DC is being taught a full timetable as though in school. It's a mixture of live lessons, audio walk-throughs and independent work. There isn't lots of homework being set as the school has decided they're spending enough time online and without the down time they'd usually get between lessons if they were in school. There's plenty of revision being encouraged.

Hopefully following the announcement on the 22nd they will all know what is required of them.

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