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Homework Policy – Purpose of HW. help students develop the skills for independent learning. consolidate learning in the classroom. enable students to complete coursework, particularly at GCSE. enable parents to be directly involved in their son/daughter’s learning.
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Homework Policy – Purpose of HW help students develop the skills for independent learning. consolidate learning in the classroom. enable students to complete coursework, particularly at GCSE. enable parents to be directly involved in their son/daughter’s learning. facilitate tasks not possible in the classroom.
Homework Policy – HW examples • formal academic tasks, e.g. essays, mathematics exercises. • research, e.g. reading, data searches, interviews, library visits, simple and safe experiments. • extended projects. • art and design work. • reading for its own sake. • finishing classwork on occasions, but not frequently.
Homework Policy - Organisation • Staff are expected to set homework according to the published homework timetable. There will usually be two or three subjects per night. • The homework in each subject for year 9 students should take about 30 minutes to complete; • All students will be issued with a school diary in which all homework given is recorded. • Failure to do homework or to do work of an acceptable standard will be recorded by teachers in the diary. • Parents will be asked to sign the diary at the weekend to acknowledge they are aware of the entries and make any comments. • Tutors will check the use of diaries by students and parents and sign fortnightly.
Assessment Policy – an extract • Students’ work should be marked at least every THREE weeks in all Years. This may be a quick check that work is complete and up to date; where tasks have been set that will indicate how well the student has learnt a topic, the marking will need to be more thorough. • Summary notes are most useful for overall assessment of the strengths of the answer and advice for future improvement in the form of clear targets.
Homework Policy - Organisation • Staff are expected to set homework according to the published homework timetable. There will usually be two or three subjects per night. • The homework in each subject for year 9 students should take about 30 minutes to complete; • All students will be issued with a school diary in which all homework given is recorded. • Failure to do homework or to do work of an acceptable standard will be recorded by teachers in the diary. • Parents will be asked to sign the diary at the weekend to acknowledge they are aware of the entries and make any comments. • Tutors will check the use of diaries by students and parents and sign fortnightly.
Homework Policy - Organisation • Staff are expected to set homework according to the published homework timetable. There will usually be two or three subjects per night. • The homework in each subject for year 9 students should take about 30 minutes to complete; • All students will be issued with a school diary in which all homework given is recorded. • Failure to do homework or to do work of an acceptable standard will be recorded by teachers in the diary. • Parents will be asked to sign the diary at the weekend to acknowledge they are aware of the entries and make any comments. • Tutors will check the use of diaries by students and parents and sign fortnightly.
An Independent Learning Project • A Chemistry One • A physics One
Key Dates for Year 9 • Interim Report 1 - 12th November 2010 • Interim Report 2 - 17th February 2011 • Final Report 3 – 15th July 2011 • Parents Evening including Options Evening – 18th January 2011
