Dear John,

I am so ill! I ate some bad food now my bowels is bad, I go to the toilet 7 times last night. I am in the toilet now and can’t stop. Also I am sweating then I am cold.

Today I don’t come to class, maybe tomorrow I am better I will tell you.

Kevin

To: John Smith

Subject: Help!

 I lost my bag!!!!! It has my keys and everything and my money. This is so important. MY PHONE!!!! What can I do???? L Tell me!

Sorry I ‘m not coming to class till later.

L L L L L L L L L 

To: John Smith

Subject: Hi!  

Attachment:   

Hi Johnny

I’m sending the homework.

Bye bye J

Kev 

From: Kevin Jones

To: John Smith

Subject: Homwork 

Daer Mr Jonh

Soory i bother you so late in the night.

Now I sending my homework. 

Yours sinceerly, 

Kevin JOnes

From: Kevin Jones

To: John Smith

Subject: Homework

A big report for the Department for Education, published in 2014, concluded that students in Year 9 who spent between two and three hours on homework on an average week night were almost 10 times more likely to achieve five good GCSEs (A*-C) than students who did no homework at all.

But where does the limit lie? When does too much homework become too stressful, and therefore counter-productive?

It's something students at Sutton Community Academy think about a lot.

"If you get too much and you have to get it done really quickly but you've still got to do stuff around the house, it can be really stressful," says Porsche. "It can be difficult, but it's also helping you."

"We get told a lot that we need to know our maths and we need to know our English because it could help us get jobs," says Samara. "Sometimes it is quite easy, but then if it's new homework, sometimes we do struggle."

Until 2012 schools in England were given formal advice on how much homework should be set, but schools now have more flexibility to design systems to suit their own students.

To: John Smith

Subject: 

Dear John

I’m writing to ask if you could please send me the photocopy we used in class today.

 Kevin

To: John Smith

Subject: What time is the meeting tomorrow please?

 What time is the meeting tomorrow please?

 

To: John Smith

Subject: My day

 

  

Hi Mum! 

How are you? I’m really tired. It’s raining again and I had a really long and boring class today. You remember I told you about that teacher, John? He is the most boring person I have ever met! I never understand anything he says. I hate him. I wish I could have a different teacher.