Homework supports independent learning, deepens understanding, and helps students make progress. It takes place outside the classroom but is a vital part of the curriculum.
Homework helps students to:
- Build self-discipline, organisation, and time management.
- Reinforce and extend learning from lessons.
- Develop research and revision skills.
- Engage parents/carers in the learning process.
Setting and Submission: Homework is set weekly via Go4Schools. Some tasks may use Microsoft Teams, but all instructions are posted on Go4Schools.
Types of homework may include:
- Written work: essays, notes, practice questions.
- Reading: fiction or non-fiction texts.
- Flipped learning: research, presentations, resource preparation.
- Skill practice: vocabulary, formulae, spellings.
- Revision for tests or assessments.
- Projects or assignments.
- Media-based tasks: watching, listening, note-taking.
- Creative tasks: drawing, design, interviews.
- Online platforms: Sparx (English, maths, science), Seneca.
Subject Expectations: Most subjects set homework weekly. Practical subjects (e.g. PE, Drama, Music) do not set formal homework but encourage participation in extra-curricular clubs.
Expected homework time per subject (fortnightly):
- Year 7: 30 minutes
- Year 8 : 30 minutes
- Year 9: 30 – 45 minutes
- Year 10: 60 minutes
- Year 11: 60 minutes
Please note for exam year groups (Years 10 and 11) this does not include preparation or revision time leading up to any examinations.
Homework frequency for each subject:
Key Stage 3
Key Stage 4
