Effective home learning in secondary schools can lead to an additional 5 months of attainment progress over a year (EEF). Therefore, teachers at TSC are committed to setting purposeful, meaningful and high quality homework activities for students. The aim is to ensure that students ‘between lessons’ time is used as constructively as possible.

Students receive two types of homework at TSC, Mode-A and Mode-B.

Mode-A homework

This accounts for most of the homework that students receive. Students will be required to;

• Embed 
  Consolidate learning that has taken place during lessons, e.g. revision, summaries of notes
• Apply 
  Use learning from lessons to complete a specific assessment task, e.g. writing a practice exam question, short recall questions. 
• Practice 
  Refine knowledge, skills and procedures learnt during lessons based on specific feedback tasks.  
• Prepare
  Prepare for new learning by reading or note-taking

Mode-A Homework at KS3	Number of homework’s	Duration of each piece of homework
English / Maths / Science / RE	Up to 2 per week	15-30 mins
All other subjects with more than one lesson per week	At least 1 per week	15-30 mins
All other subjects with only one lesson per week	At least 1 every other week	15-30 mins

 

Mode-A Homework at KS4 and KS5	Number of homework’s	Duration of each piece of homework
English / Maths	Up to 2 per week	30-45 mins
All other subjects *Bio/Chem/Physics treated as separate	At least 1 per week	30-45 mins

 

Mode-B homework

Mode-B Homework at KS3, KS4, KS5	Number of homework’s	Duration of each piece of homework
All subjects	1 per half term	60 mins +

 

• Extend 
  Move learning beyond what has been achieved during lessons with stretch and challenge activities, e.g. adding breadth to existing knowledge through guided research/tasks , open-ended projects, creative product-making

The following guidelines apply to homework being set by teachers;

• At least 2 days will be left between setting and submission. IE, homework set on a Monday should not be submitted until Thursday at the earliest.
• All homework will be logged on Class Charts on the day it is set.
• All homework will be marked. In many cases, teachers will provide a system whereby students can check their own answers. This is likely to involve the use of individual class Google Classrooms for completing tasks, submitting work, self-marking and receiving automated feedback. There will also exist regular occasions when students are provided with specific, timely and task specific feedback. We encourage teachers to use whole class feedback systems.