School demanding work completed

[Piixxiiee]

I'm a teacher and a parent. I'm in school on a rota 2 days usually then 3 days working from home. Dh working from home.
The amount if work our year 1 dc has been set is ridiculous. The school is demanding that certain tasks are 'must' tasks and have to be uploaded each day. Our nursery child also has tasks- most practical but still time consuming.

How much work is your school setting?
The school I work for is sending suggested tasks home.
My childrens school had sent a curriculum and topic grid of activities for each week, a maths timetable and an English text with comprehension questions and activities will be sent for each week to be completed after phonics and spellings..... I won't have time to work I'll be too busy doing fractions, spellings, comprehension, model making, fact finding geography and history files, pe and 'fun' science experiments, whilst entertaining my 4 year old and ensuring he is shape and letter hunting, learning the weekly nursery rhyme, completing top marks maths and writing his name, doing a dinosaur dig and making play doh, whilst cosmic yoga plays in the background!

Any other schools demanding work completed each day/week?

Loads of schools use publisher and it comes with the ms office suite?

Many families don't have MS Office... And I can't see it working on tablets.
State, and a large percentage of FSM.
For the number of pages they've put up they could easily provide a printout every week for anyone that wants it.
They also use an online maths programme that only works on a computer - not on a tablet.

I'm stressed with the homework. I work full time and I am out the house 8-5 5 days a week and am only picking a couple of tasks a week to do with the kids. It's too much unless you're at home all day!

Just do what you can/want. It's my job as a teacher to set it, it's your job as a parent to decide what's best for your family. The teacher can't please everyone but will be doing what her line manager expects of them. I really wouldn't over think it.

What exactly are they going to do if your child does not complete all the work? I’d suggest (and feedback to school if challenged) that the family’s emotions well being comes first. That’s what I’m doing in my house anyway and I’m not even working from home!

We were meant to be getting Maths and English but that's now changed to "play a board game and read a story with them" and a list of topic related stuff of the making a model variety I loathe.

I've worked with the class teacher, know roughly where they're up to in terms of Maths and am just doing some general stuff with mine getting mental maths and times tables better learnt and relying less on fingers going like crazy. It'll be less than some of the desperately over-involved parents will be doing (but it'll be beautifully ornate work that the parents have all done because that's what this lot are like) and it'll be more than the ones who never even open their kid's reading book are doing.

We've got it to where the kids do PE with Joe (or "arse around clomping around doing the bits they like with Joe"), 15 mins of reading or their reading journal which they're into the routine of doing with school anyway, and then a couple of 30 minute slots of something school-related with a biscuit break in between. Then they can go as square eyed and screen addled as they desire so I can get my own stuff done. Some of the interesting things they've done they've emailed into the yeargroup email for the staff to see (we've done animation and learnt powerpoint and stuff) - but actual formal oversight is minimal. We've used a LOT of their Cub badges as starting points for activities and filled in educational opportunities around that - of course I'm now going to have to sew all the bastard badges on when they go back now!