primary school homework

[summerdays]

I've seen various approaches to homework from some of my friends, from nothing to one friend who is full on even now her children are near the end of secondary school, staying up to the early hours to help them. I'm somewhere in the middle I hope. However that sounds like it is getting significantly worse than when mine were little.

 

[screenman]

yep. one of my other educational bugbears. poor lad can't fart in the playground without us getting a text. in fairness, they do send texts abou good work too...

I would want to know if my kids were misbehaving. I think texts home are a great idea.

 

[Markymark]

I think it important that parents help educate kids, so many do not. As for 2 hours homework, not a lot really, maybe it is designed to get kids and parents working together.

No qualifications, no parental support and expelled at 15 despite staying on for o levels. My kids on the other hand have faired somewhat better, they did have support and did plenty of homework and extra curricular.

When you're 7 and learning about life, social skills as well as academic 5 days a week, yes I think 2 hours is s long time at the weekend. I think it's fine when you're older but at that young age when your whole world is exploding then weekends should be time to learn about the rest of the world, not carrying on the academic learning which school does 5 days a week.

There's so much I want to teach my kids, places to go, things to see, experiences to experience. Maths, spelling, grammar, shoukd be kept for Monday to Friday. Let the weekends be time for them to grow.

 

[screenman]

School does not get 5 days a week though does it. They get about 25 hours of teaching, that is if the kids are doing as requested.

 

[PaulSecteur]

2 hours homework at the weekend would have been a major interruption to more important tasks, such as beating my 15 pedal stroke wheelie world record on my Raleigh Striker.

 

[Markymark]

School does not get 5 days a week though does it. They get about 25 hours of teaching, that is if the kids are doing as requested.

They do. The state enforces 5 days at school (home schooling I imagine is similar). This is the place for academic. The rest should be learning about life. Not continuing school.

 

[screenman]

They do. The state enforces 5 days at school (home schooling I imagine is similar). This is the place for academic. The rest should be learning about life. Not continuing school.

How many hours in a day? Homework is not for the benefit of the school, but for the benefit of the pupil. There is still plenty of time for all the other things in life to learn.

 

[Hacienda71]

I might be a bit cynical, but as a parent and school governor I view primary school homework to be more of an OFSTED box ticking exercise than something that really benefits the children. It does help in terms of transitioning to KS3, but far too many parents effectively do their kids homework for them.

 

[subaqua]

I got As in both maths and further maths A levels back when that meant something. I'm having to learn all over again how they do it now for my eldest in yr 2. 2 hours homework each weekend. She's just 7. I never had that much in my day. I feel the school are dumping part of the learning on the parents. My maths and science is excellent. Other parents I would imagine less so.

a good chunk of the learning is the parents responsibility FFS . its not all about teachers doing everything - teachers give the kids the tools and if you don't use the tools you forget how to. Homework is the reinforcing things into memory. I can still remember lots of the stuff i was taught in school because i set it into my mind properly.

Schools set homework because a good chunk of parents are not supporting their kids as best they can , even those with limited ability.( the parents) things like counting birds in park, then asking them how many feet there would be. like what your parents would have been doing without you realising. the old fashined word for that sort of things in maths would be called "problems"

 

[MrPie]

Get the work done in the classroom and there should be little need for significant volume of homework. If the kids lark about and don't get class work complete then send it home. A wee bit is fine. Also Ok if it's for research, special projects and out of the ordinary stuff.....but setting homework every night is bollocks. My two are forever getting stacks of homework.

And don't get me started on teachers blaming parents for bad spelling or times tables.......wtf do I pay you for?

 

[screenman]

Hmmm!

 

[screenman]

Hmmm! Let us hope that the teachers manage to educate your kids to express themselves without swearing, as it seems you may not.

 

[MrPie]

Wots with the Hmmm, hmmm screenman.......got a mouth full of pie?

Paging Fnaar

 

[screenman]

They check it after work and at weekends, they do not work school hours.

 

[summerdays]

After saying we don't normally help our one child still at school we helped with last nights history homework... We didn't do it, just helped to clarify what was required. Anyway it was marked during the lesson and given back... WE got an A apparently I'm a bit surprised a class worth of homework could be marked during the lesson even allowing for the fact they had a test for the lesson so no teaching required.