Homework

Homework

At The Beacon, we know that homework makes a significant difference to the learning process and individual student attainment.  It is often those who have highly developed independent learning skills, from completing homework, that make the strongest progress and are successful in examinations.  Homework aims to develop our students’ skills, knowledge and enjoyment of their subjects.

It is designed to:

• Extend knowledge from lessons
• Improve independence
• Encourage everyone to read widely and deeply
• Help ensure excellent progress and levels of work across all subjects.

How is homework set?

We endeavour to communicate homework tasks and expectations efficiently to ensure student engagement and gain parental support for effective home learning. Homework is set on the MCAS App by the teacher.

To do their very best, our advice to students is:

• Check you have understood the task and made a good note of the completion date.
• Ask your teacher what you need to do in order to achieve your best.
• Produce work of a high quality – all the time.
• Spend at least the time you have been given to complete the tasks.
• Extend your interests by reading widely about the topics.

How often is homework set?

- At KS3, Maths, English and Science are set weekly assignments and all other subjects are set fortnightly. In Year 7 students are expected to complete their homework in line with the expectations of the knowledge organisers. In Year 8 students are expected to spend 30 minutes per piece of homework and in Year 9 students are expected to spend 60 minutes per piece of homework. Art homework will be set as a half termly project, which will equate to 30 minutes per half term of work. Drama, PE, PDC and World views do not set homework in Year 8 and 9.

- At KS4, students should complete 60 minutes of homework per week per subject. Students will also be expected to carry out additional background reading and revision of class work, especially during the examination and assessment periods.

Please find detailed below the homework timetable and expectations for all year groups:

KS3 Timetable

Year 7 homework expectations and timetable for knowledge organisers: 

Website KO Autumn Term 1 Y7.pdf

 

Weekly homework set within lessons on a:
	Year 8	Year 9
Maths	Monday	Friday
English	Wednesday	Thursday
Science	Friday	Monday
Fortnightly homework set within lessons of:
	Year 8	Year 9
MFL (French or Spanish)	Week 2	Week 2
Geography	Week 1	Week 1
History	Week 2	Week 2
Music	Week 2	Week 2 (Week 1 - 9y1)
DT	Week 1	Week 1
Comp Science	Every Lesson	Every Lesson

 

KS4 Timetable

Weekly homework set within lessons on a:
	Year 10	Year 11
Maths	Tuesday	Wednesday
English	Thursday	Tuesday
Science	Wednesday	Thursday
Block A	Thursday	Monday
Block B	Monday	Friday
Block C	Wed W1/Tue W2	Wednesday
Block D	Friday	Monday