Homework
The overall aim is to consolidate students’ learning and for them to apply their knowledge independently:
- To encourage self-discipline and independent study skills
- To develop our school values of Collaboration, Aspiration, Respect and Empowerment
- To actively research new content to enhance learning
- To consolidate and extend work undertaken in class
- To practise and apply skills learned
- To increase student’s knowledge and their ability to learn
The IRC is open Monday - Thursday until 4:30pm, and until 4pm on Friday for computer access and homework support.
How you can help with your child’s homework:
Type of Homework |
What your child does... |
...and what you could do with your child |
|---|---|---|
| Connect | The job is to remember certain words and connect facts, details or rules together. | Act as question master/mistress or a tester and quiz your child and then mark the results together. Help to improve their memory skills sothey can retain the information and apply it to other situations |
| Consolidate | Work already started in school is to be edited, developed and completed at home. | Look at the whole piece of work and perhaps make useful comments. Ask what the whole task is about and suggest some new ideas. |
| Questions | A matter of answering questions after a lesson's work. | Check the answers. Do they give the exact information wanted in the questions? Has your child conducted some extra research online or looked back in their books? |
| Activate | Searching for information on a given subject. Part of this homework might be done in the IRC in the student's own time or with the help of a study guide. | This is all about finding out, so don't do too much for them here! But encourage and help when they are stuck. It is obviously better to suggest where they might find the information than find it for them. You may wish to help with their independent research i.e. picking out the key bits of information they need. |
| Revision | Recapping a section of work for a test or an examination. | Get your child to explain the work to you. You ask the questions once they are ready. You can even 'mark' the answers if you like |
| Reading ahead | Reading ahead in a book or researching using the internet to get some ideas of what work is to come - and be ready for it. | Be aware of what they are doing in the subject at the moment; be interested in what he/she has found out. |
| Rough work | Here the students are asked to prepare for a lesson to come by putting ideas or information down on rough paper. | Suggest a starting point perhaps. Once finished, ask them to read the work to you. Even if it is rough |
| Demonstrate | Here, students apply their skills and knowledge to show their understanding. | Ask questions, look back at the feedback and guidance they have received from their teacher and give them prompts – ask how they can improve their work. |