How much revision do your year 10 dc do during holidays/school days?

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Just wondering how much revision should year 10's be doing during school holidays and during school days? Also, how do your dc revise?

Thank you

@GreenLakes - you’ve made similar comments on several threads. How does your DC’s school protect mental health, out of school hours hobbies (ie sport is good for health, team work etc), time for the children to see friends and family and relaxation.

We are seeing now with schools like Michaela (where students are expected to complete 3 hours of study each evening in year 10 and more in year 11 and give up their smartphones in the run-up to GCSEs) that an ethos of hard work and effort can be encouraged in all schools and it will pay dividends in results!

And what other 'dividends' may we be seeing in the future with kids put under so much pressure. We've acknowledged that adults need a decent work/life balance to ensure good mental health and wellbeing - surely this is just as important for children (if not more so). I wonder how long it will be before these youngsters suffer total breakdown?

Certainly, children should be doing their best at school and work hard, but not to the detriment of everything else!

Hmmmm. I think there's somehting wrong with the system/school if that's what's needed.

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[quote GreenLakes]@daisypond

I would dispute that ‘having to’ work hard is ever a bad thing! Success in life tends to depend on hard work and it is only right that this is taught and expected in school.

Too many schools ime have a culture of low standards and low expectations.

We are seeing now with schools like Michaela (where students are expected to complete 3 hours of study each evening in year 10 and more in year 11 and give up their smartphones in the run-up to GCSEs) that an ethos of hard work and effort can be encouraged in all schools and it will pay dividends in results![/quote]
Pff, look, I mean, working hard at school isn't an end in itself, it's a means to an end, that end being, ultimately, some sort of career, be that in industry, business, academia, the public sector, wherever.

And whatever career it is that you end up in, particularly outside the very most junior ranks, you'll primarily learn the ropes from people rather than books, and most of the key opportunities for progression will turn on interactions with people, be it finding or being a mentor; managing and being managed; selling; negotiating; influencing and persuading; networking; building relationships; drawing on your list of contacts; etc etc etc.

I guarantee you that a 3 hour a night revision habit in the October of year 10 is seriously detrimental to building up the skillset needed to do any of the above. Per one of the above posts it'll turn you into some kind of dreadful Gollum-like creature. it's absolute fucking madness, so far outside of societal norms that you'll just never be able to see eye to eye with anyone who's had a halfway normal upbringing.

IMHO, of course.

I was a hard worker at school at university. I got top grades in both. But life doesn’t necessarily reward hard work, and it is a disservice to young people to make out that that hard work will get you places, and that getting top marks at school and university will reward you in later life. Working smarter, not harder is a better mindset.

@GreenLakes

DS2 is in year 10 now and the expectation from his school (and us) is 2.5 hours work (homework and revision) on school nights and then 6 hours over the weekend.

If he has exams after a holiday period, I’d expect a minimum of 6 hours revision a day.

You must be fun at parties

Both DH and my families live overseas so we always travelled to visit them during school holidays. Much more important to us than additional school work. Their high achieving private school didn’t set holiday homework so that both students and teachers had a proper break.

@GreenLakes

DS2 is in year 10 now and the expectation from his school (and us) is 2.5 hours work (homework and revision) on school nights and then 6 hours over the weekend.

If he has exams after a holiday period, I’d expect a minimum of 6 hours revision a day.

OMG that is sooo much work!!! Is your DS at a state or private school?

@wavingwhilstdrowning

None whatsoever. They work hard on term time and do nothing weekends and holidays. DS is got 4A* at a level. It's about working hard for intense periods, not soul crushing hours of study. If they want that they can go to Oxford and read English 😂😂 I'm an educational psychologist and would say that the level of study described above is detrimental to mental and physical health, which is a lot more important than results.

I'm so relieved to hear this!!!

My year 10 DS is at a what ever you want to call it, but sought after, high achieving normal comp in London. He usually has tests after half term and not particularly academic but he has actually of his own accord done some revising this half term. He likes flash cards (which never worked for me, I was more notes notes notes) but I would say not more than an hour a day probably

Neither of my DDs did anything like as much work as Green's school suggests and they both did very well. They worked hard, but they were also allowed to have a life.

If you need to work those kind of hours to get the top grades, then you're not really top grade material and will struggle at university where you're much mores elf directed.

There are countries where those kinds of hours are expected. They have sky high suicide rates. Not something to aspire to.

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