FOR five out of seven days a week, we are in school.

That makes a total of 30 hours a week and around 25 hours of learning.

When we get home we want to have a break - hanging out with our friends and family and playing outside.

They also encourage us to do clubs in and out of school, but when we do them, we do not have any time for our homework.

Some parents may think homework has a positive impact on our learning.

But on the other hand, some parents may think that it puts too much pressure on us - and sometimes it does put pressure on us. Teachers can argue that we do not have enough time in one lesson to do enough work, but we do spend a lot of our time in lessons.

Our weekend is meant to be a break from school, but there is still homework to be done.

We are not trying to rule out homework altogether, we just would like the amount of homework to decrease.

Sometimes if we an event planned and maybe one we cannot change the date and time of, we still have to do homework.

As we get older, homework only increases.

There is less and less time to do our own hobbies such as playing musical instruments, dance and gymnastics classes or swimming which all take dedication.

To learn an instrument for example, will need a lot of time and a lot of practice put into it, but what if we don’t have the time to do this?

Teachers might say there is time but if they want us to try our best in our homework, this will take up more time.

Furthermore, sometimes we have to use technology to do our homework, but not everybody has access to this.

This makes it unfair to people who have to miss their breaks to do their homework because they cannot do it at home.

We feel that homework is taking away our freedom.

By Poppy, Elise and Maisie, St Osmund’s Middle School, Dorchester