The following letter was received on behalf of Y6J:
Dear Mrs Joseph,
I am writing to try and change your mind about giving out homework for the spring break.
All children need an equal balance of work, rest and play. We do our work at school. In the holidays we get our valuable rest and play. If we have homework, we will come back to school after a ‘holiday’ when we work everyday. That would mean we would be bored of work, which is very bad for the SATs term. Surely you want us to do well in our SATs?
My second reason is that it would take up more of your precious free time, to set homework and then mark it. As you already have a lot of marking and work-setting to do, maybe it is better to leave the homework for the half-term?
If I still haven’t changed your mind, then hopefully my third point will. In the holidays, people go out or away, and they don’t have any time to do homework. When ten or so people come in without their homework, you will just spend lesson time telling them off and getting angry. Why not just skip the annoyance by leaving the homework?
Lastly, all the year sixes need a break from the high level of SATs studying. If we don’t get a break we might explode! If we get no break, nerves will mix with no-break tempers, and friendships and learning will be in the firing line.
I hope this letter helps you to rethink your decision.
Yours sincerely,
Becky
Well, you have convinced me, Becky. so what should we do? We wish you a good break and hope this is a good compromise:
Use any spare time to go over your revision booklets and revise your times tables etc
Use the list of websites you were given to make revision fun
Spend NO MORE THAN half an hour a day (or an hour every other day, or any other combination) on school work
This should mean that we can all have a lovely spring break and I look forward to seeing you again on 22nd April.
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