

Homework is very different around the world For some parents, no matter how much homework is set, it’s never enough for others, even asking them to fill in their child’s reading record once a week can be a struggle due to a busy working life.

Teachers, parents and children in many schools across the land have seen more changes of homework policy than numbers of terms in some school years.Ī ‘no-homework’ policy pleases only a few a grid of creative tasks crowd-sourced from the three teachers bothered to give their input infuriates many (parents, teachers and children alike). Many primary schools still use this as a guideline. Up until 2012, the Department of Education recommended an hour of homework a week for primary school Key Stage 1 children (aged 4 to 7) and half an hour a day for primary school Key Stage 2 children (aged 7-11). A study of teenagers used by The Telegraph shows that American high-schoolers spend an average of 6.1 hours per week compared with 4.9 hours per week of homework each week for UK-based teens. Sadly, there’s little data comparing how much homework primary school-aged children in the UK and across the globe complete on a weekly basis. Download Free Now! How much homework do UK primary school children get?
