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In England, all primary school children must have homework, so an after-school care team needs to think carefully about what support and facilities they offer for it, says Jennie Lindon. In England, there are official government guidelines stating that all children in primary and secondary school should have homework. The recommended amount starts at no more than an hour per week for children in Years 1 and 2, rises to an hour and half a week in Years 3 and 4 and then to 30 minutes a day for Years 5 and 6. In other parts of the UK it is left up to schools to decide when to start some kind of homework and how much.

In England, there are official government guidelines stating that all children in primary and secondary school should have homework. The recommended amount starts at no more than an hour per week for children in Years 1 and 2, rises to an hour and half a week in Years 3 and 4 and then to 30 minutes a day for Years 5 and 6. In other parts of the UK it is left up to schools to decide when to start some kind of homework and how much.

The usual pattern is that children get set different kinds of homework and it is not all formal written tasks, especially for the younger ones. It may be:

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