Amount of work set

[emkana]

I'd be interested to know how much your school expects your students to do per day, and in what format, and how much you think it should be. Especially KS3

We are doing 1 hour per core subject a week, 30 mins for non-core. Plus encouraging reading, exercise, some "challenge" tasks

Expectation is 2.5 hours a day

To me that doesn't seem a lot?

I’m a yr6 teacher. I’m hoping for about 3 hours a day, but that includes reading, spellings and times tables practice. I reckoned it wasn’t far off the working time they go in school. Although they are missing out on learning new concepts and rehearsing them in the same way. It is more working on stuff they already know.
How I do that is another matter and is the subject of another thread!

My ks3 DD (I also teach this age) has been doing her normal timetable...teachers using zoom mainly. Not much feedback though. She's probably done more at home than school to be honest. So, around 5 hrs per day...she is very glad she's broken up for Easter today.

For A level we are expecting 8-10 hours per subject per week. I set 4 hours of PPTs (the lessons I would have actually taught) then additional reading/tasks etc

I’m working just as hard as I would if I was in work to be honest. Only just finished for the night- I could cry.

I teach English and am setting my classes 4 hours per week - however I have worked hard to ensure lessons that can actually be done in that time, independently and that the pupils will enjoy them

We have had no guidance at all. I suspect there is wide variation in my school.

The year 9 students have been told to focus on the core and future options , which makes for very uneven workloads across the school staff but it was ever thus!

Each 50 minute school lesson was meant to be set as a 30 home lesson. This would mean 3 hours of work plus homework a day. I’m setting that but I also teach my daughter and I can see some teachers are setting a lot more. She is working longer hours at home than she would at school and I feel fortunate we have a computer and printer for her as I can’t imagine how hard this would be to view on a phone.

I teach science and for KS3 we are setting approximately 2 hours per week. For KS4, between 2 and 3 hours.

My A-level group are still being set 5/6 hours a week. Some of that is online lessons through teams and some independent work.

For the KS4 and A-level lot, it's taking a lot longer to prepare the materials to deliver or for them to do because you have to consider the issues of not being with them to guide their practice. I am continuing with the syllabus with the Y12 class but won't get through as much as I normally would.

Primary - 3 hours of work per day from Reception up.

Five lessons per subject per fortnight KS3 and 4. Each one about an hours work. Plus a 20-30 minute quiz/task that will be the basis for marking and feedback. So enough for about five hours each week day. I teach Science so they're actually doing fewer lessons a fortnight for me (usually have 6 at KS3 and 8 at KS4), but may be doing more lessons than usual of other subjects.