Year 7 - Homework Help
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Apparently there aren't any books yet at DD's school!!!! [The Geography homework is a bluff - they have to decorate a piece of paper about the size of their school planner and keep it until exercise books actually arrive!]
The German teacher gave them each one piece of A4 paper to write vocab on - no one else has asked them to write anything down!!!!
There will be books, DD assures me - but they haven't turned up yet.
How can a school run out of books? What are stock cupboards for, if not stock piling???? [well, and locking children in - you guys know my emotionally scaring education at the hands of the battle nuns]
The German teacher gave them each one piece of A4 paper to write vocab on - no one else has asked them to write anything down!!!!
There will be books, DD assures me - but they haven't turned up yet.
How can a school run out of books? What are stock cupboards for, if not stock piling???? [well, and locking children in - you guys know my emotionally scaring education at the hands of the battle nuns]
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I'll remember to pass that bit of info onto DH ...his job when I'm at work.scary mum wrote: Scarlett, when you cover them remember to close the book otherwise it will be beautifully covered but permanently open
Maybe you should dress up as a filing cabinet, PPMum...position yourself in the empty stock cupboard and check as to what is really going on ! By the way, I seem to remember stock cupboards were generally empty at my secondary ....the piles of new books were used for the teachers to rest their feet on and us girls would use the cupboard as a changing room...or if feeling particularly dramatic as an entrance to make a point about something.
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Are we talking text books or exercise books? In my experience most schools have neither until you buy the revision guide from WH Smith's for GCSE and a large ring binder in which to keep those bits of paper they write on once a year.
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Exercise books. I've bought her some plastic punch pockets for keeping homework in. There are meant to be exercise books arriving today but only for use in school - not to be taken home.mystery wrote:Are we talking text books or exercise books? In my experience most schools have neither until you buy the revision guide from WH Smith's for GCSE and a large ring binder in which to keep those bits of paper they write on once a year.
No, no text books. I don't think anyone has those any more, do they? DD's homework this week was all internet related.
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Is it a grammar school or comprehensive?
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Comprehensive. But funnily enough two of the homework assignments set were virtually identical to two that a friend's daughter brought home from her grammar school on the other side of the country!mystery wrote:Is it a grammar school or comprehensive?
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Do you think that not getting to see the classwork might just be an early year 7 thing and things will change as they mature? They might think that at this stage the children will not bring their classwork back into school on the right day so they keep it at school for now?
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Sorry, Mystery - think I'm cross posting on this topic now!
Yes - I think it may be because the school is worried about books going AWOL. Also , in these first weeks, before they set them, I suspect they don't want us seeing the work that's being done in class. DD says it is very basic and repetitive. Conversely there may be other children who are struggling in class and there's no point in sending them home with a book full of incompletes to worry about at home.
I am keeping my shiny optimistic face firmly in place until after setting.
Yes - I think it may be because the school is worried about books going AWOL. Also , in these first weeks, before they set them, I suspect they don't want us seeing the work that's being done in class. DD says it is very basic and repetitive. Conversely there may be other children who are struggling in class and there's no point in sending them home with a book full of incompletes to worry about at home.
I am keeping my shiny optimistic face firmly in place until after setting.
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Just to add to push pull mum - please don't worry (or indeed expect more) my dd in a ss grammar and has had virtually no homework- this applies for the whole of year 7 as she is now entering year 8. To her shock she had 5 pieces of hw this week - decorating pages to show she was now in year 8.
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Ah yes, but not receiving homework is quite a different thing from never seeing classwork - or do the two go hand in hand at the SuperSelective (TOGS I guess this has to be?). I think to see classwork and never to receive homework would be the most desirable state of affairs.