School Report: Do we get too much homework? - BBC News.
How much homework is enough? Even the basic guidelines for homework ( endorsed by the both the National Education Association and the National PTA ) of approximately 10 minutes per grade level per night (from 10 minutes for a first-grader to 120 minutes for a 12th-grader) can be excessive at times and leave little time to engage in play and.
Perhaps they would respond better to hard evidence showing the disadvantages of homework. Body paragraphs examples. Body: Parents’ help with homework is another reason to avoid assigning too much. If children are confused, they will simply go to their parents, who frequently end up doing most of the homework for them.
The survey of 1,000 parents found that 13 per cent of primary school pupils spend five hours or more on homework a week, compared to 39 per cent of those at secondary school and more than half (55.
I would expect about an hour's homework per night for a Y7 or Y8 child, ie 3 x 20 minutes. The school should have a homework timetable to ensure that homework is given out evenly throughout the week. You need to look at the school's homework policy. If it is an independent school, the policy should be on the school's website.
Avoid offering rewards for homework, but do give praise. On the other hand try not to pressurise a child (this is, of course, much easier said than done). They need to feel that homework is a matter of course, a natural expectation. If the TV is on next door, or somebody is playing computer games loudly down the hall, this doesn’t help either.
Gray goes on to say that anxiety levels among children are at an all-time high due to the stress of too much homework, and a lack of time to play. Instead of encouraging students to sit at a desk during their free time, completing pages of comprehension, maybe we should place emphasis on independent and creative problem-solving through play and.
DS recently started Y7. School says should be 1 hour a night. So far he's only been given 3 lots of homework, with each taking about 30 mins.I guess they are breaking them in gently! Oh, they did say that they were only going to set homework in English and maths until half term.