Home Learning

Home learning is designed to support and broaden student understanding and provide them with the opportunity to use and develop their independent thinking and learning skills. Being able to work independently to research, apply and retrieve information is key to student success. As students progress through their educational journey, they are required to learn progressively independently and, as such, we aim to use home learning as a tool to not only broaden their knowledge base but also to enhance the skills that they will require as they enter their GCSE and A-level years. Through the practice of home learning, students will also develop wider skills such as self-regulation through time management, which becomes all the more important as students progress onto higher education and the working world.

Home learning will focus on one of the following, in order to build the skills and knowledge that students need:

Home Learning Option 1	Flip Learning	Tasks that enable students to explore subject matter or topics, in readiness for future learning that takes place in the classroom. It allows students to independently collect and understand the information part of the work done before the lesson.
Home Learning Option 2	Low Stakes Test	Google forms, Kahoot, Quizziz or Flubaroo can be used to set up questions and small tests that mark themselves. This will give teachers and students the chance to see knowledge progress over time, as well as focus on areas of weakness.
Home Learning Option 3	Exam Question	An assessment tool that can be used to give teachers the opportunity to give detailed feedback to students. A single question is set and the students can either send in their responses via Google Classroom or hand it in to the class teacher in a subsequent lesson.

Homework will be set as per the quantity listed below. There is flexibility within this schedule as to exactly when homework is set each week. This is to optimise the relevance of homework to the progression of learning for students.

In Key Stage 3, students will be set home learning activities at least once a week for English, Mathematics and Science and once a fortnight for all other subjects.
In Key Stage 4, students will be set home learning activities for each subject at least once a week.
In Key Stage 5, students will be set home learning activities for each subject unit at least once a week.

Individual timetables group for each year can be located by clicking on the link below: