Snacks are ready to go, we tried doing snack then homework but it just didn't work. Between last snack at school and getting home from the bus is 2.5 hours, which is a long time for them. They are snackers, which is why dinner takes so long lol. They eat their snack while I unpack their lunchboxes then we try and get on to homework, but they just aren't in that 'school' frame of mind anymore. Which is part of the reason it takes longer than 15 minutes each night, another part being that the only homework which can be done independently is DS1's spelling and timestables (I check them after he's done them).
Reading at bed time doesn't work, we have a LOT of bed time issues as it is and homework is just another excuse for them to not go to bed. When it comes to them going to bed and doing their homework I'd rather they were in bed so they get enough sleep for the next school day.