They also ate and had a 45-minute homework session before their parents collected them at 5.30pm.

That night, back in the kitchen, during the short break between homework sessions, we gathered again to gossip and eat toast.

Should be chunky, robust and goodlooking enough for elegant dinners as well as homework sessions.

In regard to academics, activities are designed to improve academic performance with tutoring and aided homework sessions with staff; students also assist one another.

Homework sessions are supervised every evening.

We agreed on the week for our visit, and settled down some three weeks before to many hours of homework on the internet.

We know they come back from school with two hours of homework to struggle through - not quality time at all.

How else do you fit in three hours' training an evening and three hours of homework?

Ten-hour days are usually followed by two or three hours of homework.

Usually the students receive 3 to 4 hours of homework each night.

Most likely he did his school homework with the telly on in the background; he probably can't walk down the street without texting.

School homework had to be done every evening and in the hour before bedtime, the family prayed.

At one point, as the battle raged, he asked his youngest daughter if she had finished her school homework.

The study found many of them underestimated the difference between independent study and school homework.

He also took his guitar, some books and school homework.