What homework does my child receive?
There are 3 types of homework:
- Self-quizzing homework: Your child receives self-quizzing homework from each subject. This ensures that your child is memorising and recalling the knowledge that they need to be successful.
- Paper homework: Every week your child receives one piece of homework from each subject. In some subjects this homework is complete on paper e.g Art. It allows students to consolidate and extend their learning
- Online homework: Some homework is set online and in place of paper homework. This includes most homework for Maths, Science, Humanities, MFL, Technology, Performing Arts, PE, Business and IT. Some subjects use specific online platforms e.g.
- Maths – https://sparxmaths.com/
- Science – https://sparxscience.com/
- Humanities – https://senecalearning.com/
en-GB - MFL – https://www.languagenut.com/en-gb/
Self-quizzing homework
For every learning cycle, the content for each subject is distilled into a knowledge organiser. Knowledge organisers will be used as a basis of low stakes testing across the module and this normally takes place as part of the starter activity in lessons. This will help build your child’s knowledge and confidence over the course of the module and the year, so that when they have an assessment, they can use the knowledge organisers for that subject as a revision tool. This encourages students to take ownership of their learning and to support them to develop good learning habits. Embedding this content is critical to long term success and effective retrieval from long term memory.
How to use a knowledge organiser, a step-by-step guide
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