We believe that homework serves three purposes. Firstly, it provides the pupils with additional challenges outside the classroom to utilise skills that have been mastered. Secondly, it provides parents with information and an opportunity to become involved in the learning process. Thirdly, it trains pupils in planning and organising time and encourages ownership and responsibility for learning.
The time devoted to homework will depend on the age and level of the student. Nursery children will not receive any homework. Reception children will have reading daily once they have fully grasped their initial sounds. Older children will receive different types of homework. Pupils may not have homework assigned every night but it is the expectation of the teaching staff that parents and pupils will participate in different types of homework on a regular basis. Generally homework will not be set for weekends and holiday periods.
The following guidelines might help you and your child with their homework.
Teachers will:
- Set and explain the work appropriate to the class, group or individual. It should always be clear to the children what is expected and should last usually no more than 45 minutes for older pupils in the school.
- Check returned work with the children
- Encourage work to be done well and praise when it is
Children are expected to:
- Take work home and return it at the appropriate time
- Complete work to an acceptable standard
- Take good care of school books and equipment
Parents should:
- Take an interest in homework
- Where appropriate discuss the work and help
- support pupils by providing time and a reasonable working environment
- Encourage work to be done well and praise when it is
- Contact the class teacher if any problems arise completing homework
- Sign reading records daily
Further information about homework is available from the class teachers and Head Teacher.
Homework Guidelines
The school aims to provide a comprehensive and challenging curriculum that enables children to continue learning with the knowledge, abilities and understanding gained from their experience of living abroad.
The school works in partnership with parents to achieve this aim. One example of this partnership is the use of homework to reinforce and extend what children learn in school.
Homework takes different forms:
1. Shared activities
The school encourages parents to share a wide variety of activities with their children. It provides advice on the sort of activity that will aid children's learning.
2. Shared reading
The school provides children with books to take home to read. Parents are encouraged to read these books with their children, to listen to their children read and to talk with them about what they have been reading.
A specific information meeting for parents about reading will be held annually to help parents with their child's daily reading.
3. Specific learning tasks
The school expects children to learn and memorise specific things at home. These may include spelling lists, multiplication tables and other number facts. The school encourages parents to help children with these tasks.
4. Homework tasks
At other times certain tasks may be given for IPC units of work. Guidelines and explanation will always be given to the child and will have sufficient time for completion.
The school encourages parents to provide suitable conditions for children to complete these exercises and to talk with them about what they are doing. Homework expectations will be discussed at the first class teacher information meeting.