Home learning at Chace (based on research for EEF)

Belonging

Home learning is set to help students learn and retain key skills and knowledge from our Chace curriculum.

Responsibility

Students learn to take responsibility for their own learning through completing home learning tasks, testing and building key skills in reading, numeracy and literacy.

Excellence

Research shows that students in secondary schools who regularly complete home learning, achieve better exam grades.

The school uses ‘Google Classroom’ to share home learning tasks with the students as well as booklets in years 7 and 8 students where students complete short recall tasks.

The amount of home learning a child receives varies according to their age and the nature of the home learning activity. We review annually how much home learning students are being set but currently follow the guidelines below:

Group	Time
Years 7-8	30- 60  minutes a day (booklet, reading, core online tasks)
Year 9	1-2 hours a day (approximately 30-40 minutes a subject)
Years 10-11	1.5-2.5 hours a day (approximately 1 hour a subject)
Years 12-13	4-6 hours per subject per week

All teachers give students at least one week to complete home learning. Ideally students will complete the home learning as soon as possible after it is set. We encourage students to organise how they manage this and will support any student who is struggling.

Reading is an important part of independent learning so that students develop vocabulary, which supports learning at all stages. As part of home learning, we therefore expect all students to read for at least 15 minutes a day. In year 7, 8 and 9 this is monitored through the Accelerated reading programme.

 

Home learning is an integral part of students’ learning. At Chace, we aim to encourage students to take responsibility. The most successful students take every opportunity to extend their work at home beyond expectation. Regular completion of home learning that is meaningful and relevant to students’ courses of study helps to underpin their learning and lead to excellence.

 

Teachers acknowledge home learning through lesson activities and using online platforms. They monitor and reward home learning using Arbor. Sanctions are set by form tutors and subject teachers for home learning not done.

 

Our home learning policy can be found on the Policies page.

 

Please contact subject teachers and form tutors with queries about home learning in the first instance.