Bailiff’s Ukraine Appeal
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Read MorePlease help the students of JCG raise money for the people of Ukraine
Read MoreAuthor: | Toni Rollo |
Reviewed By: | Toni Rollo |
Date: | March 2021 |
Shared With Staff: | March 2021 |
Shared With Governors: | March 2021 |
Next Review: | April 2023 |
… the use of homework was associated with advancing students’ achievement by approximately one year or by improving the rate of learning by 15%.
Principles
Aims
Why we set home learning
Home learning fulfils an important function in contributing to our overall curriculum aims. We set home learning (tasks):
Procedures
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Students should be encouraged to take responsibility for:
Subject Teachers have responsibility for:
Heads of Department have responsibility for:
Heads of Faculty have responsibility for:
Form tutors have responsibility for:
Heads of School have responsibility for:
Parents and Carers will:
Assistant Head teacher for Student Progress and Welfare has responsibility for:
Assistant Head teacher Curriculum and Learning has responsibility for:
Relationship to other policies
Internal Policies:
Year 7
September
Only 30 minutes reading per day and one 30 minute Maths homework per week. In addition to this year 7 students should complete their ‘Induction passport'.
October onwards:-
Creativity and Performance |
Preparation of resources, plus one extended home learning task of 45 minutes per subject each half term for Creative subjects, no home learning for Performance |
English |
20 minutes reading per day (monitored by English teachers) and 20 mins SPAG or preview/review per week |
Humanities |
15 minutes per Humanities subject per week = 45 mins |
Languages |
30 mins per week (vocab learning) |
Mathematics |
30 minutes weekly to practise and consolidate topics covered in class |
Comp Science |
15 minutes per week |
Science |
15 minutes per Science subject per week = 45 mins |
Year 8
Creativity and Performance |
Preparation of resources, props, costumes or ingredients, plus one extended home learning task of 45 minutes per Creative subject and Drama (learning lines or written task) each half term. |
English |
30 minutes reading per day (monitored by English teachers) and 30 mins SPAG or preview/review per week |
Humanities |
20 minutes per Humanities subject per week = 60 mins |
Languages |
45 minutes weekly to practise and consolidate topics covered in class per subject |
Mathematics |
30 minutes weekly to practise and consolidate topics covered in class |
Comp Science |
15 minutes per week |
Science |
20 minutes per Science subject per week = 60 mins |
Year 9
Creativity and Performance |
Preparation of resources, props, costumes or ingredients, plus one extended home learning task of 45 minutes per Creative subject and Drama (learning lines or written task) each half term. |
English |
30 minutes per week and 30 minutes of reading per day |
Humanities |
30 minutes per week per subject |
Languages |
30 minutes per week per subject |
Mathematics |
30 minutes per week per subject |
Comp Science |
15 minutes per week |
Science |
30 minutes per week per subject |
Year 10 and 11
All subjects will set 45 minutes home learning per week. Therefore Year 10 home learning should be approximately 7 hours 30 minutes. This might increase during revision and examination preparation periods.
Year 12 and 13
All students
Please note: If you have an access arrangement in place for your normal way of working, you should also use it for home learning tasks. For example, if you have 25% extra time then you should expect to apply this to home learning tasks.