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Post by monkey on Sept 17, 2013 18:45:23 GMT
You can tell I'm not a happy bunny tonight. Apologies in advance for moaning!
LO's homework for tonight.
Ask a grown up in your house to read this story which is one side of A4 descriptive text about a garden with a fence around it. There is a hole in the fence.
LO is then expected to write about what she can see through the hole.
LO can just about manage to write her own name, her sister's name, mummy and daddy so how she is supposed to do this I don't know.
She lost concentration after about 5 lines of story - we only read picture books with a few lines of text at home.
So, after a shortened, simplified version she proceeded to ask: why the fence has a hole in it, why doesn't someone mend it, we don't have a hole in our fence do we, it needs one of those things you bang with, why don't they mend it etc, etc, etc
I give up - and she's normal you know. Absolutely normal with no requirement for any support.
Bleurgh!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by moo on Sept 17, 2013 19:20:58 GMT
Seems bonkers to me..... Mine never had anything similar..... 
Xx. moo. X
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( probably would have freaked mine out... Would have been scared a fox may get in & eat all the chickens ducks & geese...  )
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Post by kstar on Sept 17, 2013 19:44:20 GMT
Starlet is in year 2 now but she has had literacy home works a bit like that. I remember one last year where she had to think of a story she knew well and retell it changing one detail... Luckily she didn't have to write it, just discuss it with a grown up. Now my gripe is more about the amount of homework - a printed homework sheet with literacy, reading, numeracy and topic based homework tasks on it. And we are expected to read every single day, reading books changed every day! Rather a lot at 6.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2013 20:20:12 GMT
Homework is a issue here today. Last year in year two had 10 spellings, four reading books and they quickly get very long! ,numeracy work sheet and two book reviews to write every week!! Factor in swimming lesson, football practice and after school club and we have no time left. One memorable topic to write about was imagine you are Samuel Pepys on the day of the great fire of London. Imagine how you felt,what you saw and what you did!!!
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Post by pluto on Sept 20, 2013 9:26:58 GMT
My youngest got his first book home to read, I sent it back the next day 
I have no intention what so ever to help my children with homework at home, if they are not able to do it by themselves school should learn it them first, I am not a teacher. I do however let them sit on the kitchen table to do homework, but they have to do it themselves, I have already been to school! 
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Post by oogleschnook on Sept 20, 2013 18:49:21 GMT
Oooh, this is such a bugbear here too! LOs are too tired at night so we end up trying to do it in the morning, nightmare! They lose concentration after about 2 mins and seem to really struggle with it. Crowning glory this week was that not only did we have to sponsor them to do a scavenger hunt for 50 items, we actually were then supposed to do it with them at home!! What was that all about??!! 'Misunderstood' and said we thought they were doing it at school... A tudor ship Mrs Tumble, that's insane!  OSx |
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Post by greyspeckledhen on Sept 21, 2013 1:03:41 GMT
I would just opt out if not appropriate - takes bravery though! I'd send a letter in explaining why it was not appropriate and what you did instead (reading picture book). To become a slave to inappropriate homework is so demoralising for you and your child - just say no!
You'll be thinking that all the other children will have done it, but that won't be true. Lots of parents don't do any homework or reading support at home, so the fact that you do things that ARE appropriate for your child will put you in the 'no need to feel guilty' band of parents!
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Post by greyspeckledhen on Sept 21, 2013 1:04:38 GMT
50 items? Blimey, that's ridiculous!
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Post by ham on Sept 29, 2013 19:05:45 GMT
I would not do it. Along time ago I told the school I would not do complex homework with dd as I was not having screaming and distressed child all evening. I did things with her but more fun things suited to her actually ability.the school were fine about it
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Post by littlemisscheerful on Sept 30, 2013 7:31:18 GMT
I mostly didn't do h/w with my girls either. The tantrums could ruin a whole evening, and I thought there were much more important things for us to do.
Sometimes we tried, and I just wrote what we had done.
It did infuriate me as to how they seemed incapable of differentiating h/w. I send some back saying that it was clearly inappropriate.
I knew someone who was very disappointed with her holiday project (her son was yr 2). She very unironically said what was the point her doing it, if it didn't get marked!
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Post by monkey on Sept 30, 2013 19:39:11 GMT
Just an update on my original post.
I met with the SENCO last week.
She told me that the homework was a test. Apparently they do they same at the beginning of every school year as a baseline assessment for each child and in order to monitor their progress.
I'd have been slightly more understanding if this had been explained at the outset but talk about setting children up to fail.
MM
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Post by louie on Oct 5, 2013 13:34:58 GMT
Monkey, that sounds mad-why didn't they do it in school then? It really begs the question-who was the test for: the child or the parent?
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Post by blueberry on Oct 5, 2013 22:19:55 GMT
Useful info I received this week was to aim to do a little bit, as often as we could, rather than attempt any homework session that lasted very long. ie for Year 2 child, 5 minutes maximum. our AD can now manage a bit longer, but the idea of keeping it much shorter than I'd otherwise have done, makes it a bit more do-able - or at least tackle-able...
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Post by blueberry on Oct 5, 2013 22:21:49 GMT
PS: Wow, just as I was wondering how bland my post would look with no avatar, hey presto, someone has been busy behind the scenes to set me up with a gorgeous pic! Thanks! Excellent PR and bonus of being on this site!!
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