Home Learning

Home learning is important in developing good study habits for life-long independent learning and is a key part of the partnership between home and school. You can support your child’s learning by:

• Giving your son/daughter a quiet area and, preferably, a set time for Home Learning each evening;
• Talking through how to manage workload and how careful planning can help avoid a bottleneck of work;
• Checking work is well presented and completed on time;
• Discussing teachers’ marks and comments;
• Checking and signing planners every week;
• Recognising and celebrating your child’s work;
• Using the planner to feed back comments and questions to tutors.

There is a school expectation that your son/daughter will do additional work at home. Home Learning consists of several elements:

• A core task in each subject each week, following the homework timetable, which is recorded by students in their planners;
• An extended learning task from a choice available in each half term module with work presented in a variety of forms, such as presentations, posters or booklets as agreed with the teacher;
• Checking over work and preparing for lessons;
• Personal Reading.

We will offer guidance to students, particularly on how they can approach extended tasks. Personal reading simply means always having fiction or an information book to develop wider reading interests, which should be part of each day’s Home Learning.

More information on Home Learning, including the Home Learning Policy, and letters to parents of Year 7-11 students, can be found can be found on the Home Learning Letters page and the Home Learning Policy page.

If you have any queries about Home Learning, please click on the Home Learning Feedback form.