Home Learning
We believe that the development of independent learning skills allows our students to take more ownership of their education. Promotion of these skills at an early age will help to prepare them for GCSE, A level and beyond and will also support them in their journey to success across the different subject areas.
Home learning:
- Allows students to prepare for their learning in class, or review topics already taught
- Develops student independent learning and literacy skills
- Provides opportunities for parents to engage with their child’s education
- Enables students to stretch themselves, extending their learning where possible.
Year 7-9 home learning
Students will be set homework by English, Maths, Science, MFL, History, Geography and RE. These subjects will set one piece of home learning via Arbor every 7 days. Exceptions to this will be during assessment periods where revision tasks for all subjects may be set. Students may be expected to complete revision for assessments over holiday periods.
Teachers will set either self-quizzing work where students will learn a section of a knowledge organiser through the ‘look, cover, write, check’ method, or set work via an online platform such as Seneca or Sparx. Other appropriate activities may also be set. Your child will have the work explained to them when home learning is set. They then have 7 days from this point to complete tasks.
Termly knowledge organiser booklets are provided for students to support them with self-quizzing.
Teachers will indicate to students how the piece will be ‘marked’. They may choose to test knowledge or comprehension via a review quiz, sample mark work during a lesson or collect work in to be formally marked. They will also check the student’s home learning book for application to home learning activities.
Year 10 and 11 home learning
KS4 students will be assigned up to 60 minutes of home learning weekly per subject via Arbor. The expectation is that there is a 7-day period between the setting of the home learning and the due date. Teachers may choose to set self-quizzing using knowledge organisers, online tasks via a range of platforms or more extended essay-based assignments.
Teachers will provide students with relevant knowledge organisers for their course.
Teachers will indicate to students how the piece will be assessed. They may choose to test knowledge or comprehension via a review quiz, sample mark work during a lesson or collect work in to be formally marked. During assessment periods, revision materials will be signposted to students to replace/in addition to more formal weekly home learning activities.
Year 12 and 13 home learning
Teachers will be setting a minimum of 2 hours a week home learning in each subject. Students will be required prepare for upcoming learning in class or to apply their knowledge from their classroom learning to their homework tasks.
This may look like at KS5:
- Exam questions or past papers
- Essays
- Academic readings with questions
- Research tasks for coursework or NEA units
- Seneca
- Revision on a topic area for a topic test, termly knowledge quiz or assessment
- Extended Project Qualification research.
Students will have 7 days to complete work, but in some cases, staff may extend to 2 weeks if there is a requirement for students to spend more time on their task (i.e. coursework units for BTEC subjects).
Students have additional supervised study to support their learning and are expected to use their time effectively during study sessions to support with their independent work.