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New thread for all of us with lovely Y11s to support them and us through the coming weeks.

I’ve been at the office all day and DD has worked through at home. She is in a foul mood now and I said to her that she should have taken today off, but of course, as her mother, I know nothing. Sigh.

She’s stomped back upstairs after supper and is now doing more work. We do not put this on her, the work she’s doing is what she’s taken upon herself.

My boy too but this is his last session of the day and then he will be horizontal on sofa for the rest of the evening. Too right!

I reckon 5 hours max Tuesday-Friday. Sundays and BH Monday off and 2-3 hours on the Saturdays. We have a theatre trip booked months ago for the second Saturday.

Oooh seeing what?!

4.5 hours a day here. Treading the line between enough revision and enough relaxation

4 hours/day. 2-3 days off over half term. As a teacher and a parent, I think there’s a real risk of burnout for y11s at this point. As well as the effect on their wellbeing, this could also mean they crash out in exams. So working all hours, imo, is counter productive.

Maybe 5-6 hours over the course of the whole break?

Ds tried is trying to reason that if he's halfway through his exams, he only needs to do half the revision he was doing before.

(He will probably end up doing 3-4 hours a day)

I would say a couple hours a day, Mon-Fri? Dd is having a weekend off!

my son chose geography and history so it’s heavy for him the final two weeks with 3 history topics and a massive human geography topic so he can’t take his foot off the gas too much….

The resistible rise of Arturo Ui at the RSC in Stratford.

Taking the long weekend off then 5-6 hours a day from Tuesday.

DD only has 2 exams the week after half term. Then the rest the following week.

Dd has lots of exams left for those final 2 weeks. 3 days of 2 a day coming up.

She will do half days revising with trips out and exercise every day. She is very capable of winding herself up and burning out and I want to keep her on an even keel. She hasn't slept brilliantly in the last week or so so will definitely be encouraging good rests too.