How much homework is typical for year 8?

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Just curious as if like to compare to what DS gets.
Maths, English, science particularly. How much homework does ( or did) your DC in year 8 bring home please?

2 pieces a night, meant to take about 30 minutes each. Basically 1 piece per subject (with English Lang and Lit counting as 2 subjects).

@RedskyThisNight

2 pieces a night, meant to take about 30 minutes each. Basically 1 piece per subject (with English Lang and Lit counting as 2 subjects).

Thank you, that’s very helpful

My son got very little and still doesn't get much now he is in year 9 unless it's revision for a test.

I never know what is best, though I'm yet to be convinced that lots of homework is that useful.

Son is 6. Gets one English, one maths a week plus 30 Spelling

Atleast 10 pieces in one week, so one per subject. It's nearly always due in the next week and both my DS used to leave it all for the weekend as they both had other commitments after school.

We seem to get 2 or 3 pieces a week. Other stuff is set as "finish off what we started in class" but DS tells me he finished it at school.
With spellings and reading books and worksheets, I think they had more at primary!

My daughter's school has a homework timetable that is visible for all years to all parents so you know expectations and on average she has 7 pieces per week (they have a two week timetable and one week is 8 and the next is 6) but in addition they have to finish and Uncompleted classroom work as homework.

Grammar school. Lots of people assume they're pushed but they get little homework in yr 8.

DD gets loads of maths, after most lessons, but not as much from other subjects.

Grammar school y8- only about 20 mins a day it seems really- sometimes extra revision for tests

Thank you everyone. Your replies have been very helpful. DS doesn’t get much homework at all. Most days, he doesn’t have any.
Like @MaizeAmaze, he often tells me he finished it at school.
I thought they’d surely have more than this, hence checking.

My daughter is year 8 doesn't get mush at all really. She is in set 2 or 3 for all her subjects and I thought she would have much more. She always has some kind of maths work online to submit, and then maybe 2 other pieces per week. Sometimes the homework set is to ' back books ' or similar!
They seem to get through lots of the ' homework ' in school.

I think homework peaked for my DD in year 8, she had lots! Now year 10 and they seem to cover much more in the lesson.

Not much at all, lower sets.
Which was good because she wouldn't have coped.

About 10 pieces a week, which he manages easily by going to homework club for an hour after school 4 days a week.

It seems to vary but it's less than I expected. He actually got far more at the start of year 7 than at any other time so far! Since the 7th January when he went back to school he's had 3 English, 1 art, 1 history, 2 French. All fairly quick tasks.

2 hours a night.

2hours a night!? Gosh. Did you know that before you chose the school? That wouldn't work for us.

About 2 or 3 things a week that are supposed to take 30 minutes. Some take a bit longer (Art) and some seem to take next to no time.

To be honest it feels less onerous than primary.

Everything is set on an App, so I can see when DD ticks it off. And it messages me if she hasn't done it 24 hours before the deadline.

Huge relief - DD has a lot of extra curricular stuff and I/she couldn't cope with tons of homework on top.

In year 8 dd got stuff usually with a week to do it. And we could just about still manage to leave it all to do in a chunk on a weekend afternoon with sometimes maybe one piece on a weeknight.

The expectation at the DCs’ schools was for 1.5 hours of study a night in year 8. If their homework didn’t cover this full amount, they were expected to do revision or extra study, and parents were told to ensure this happened.

My 2 DC were expected to do 60-90 minutes daily in yr 8 but rarely did that much, they were set homework according to a timetable but it often was really easy to do, ie finish off work started in class which they had almost completed.