Home Learning at NGA: Relearning and consolidation 24-25
Home Learning needs to be provided to students to ensure that learning is reinforced and consolidated. At NGA, this work will always be a relearning, a reimagining or a recreating of learning done in classrooms. Home Learning will never involve new or unfamiliar content. We try to use teachnology and apps such as Educake and Sparx maths as this has been proved to be most successful, especially at Key Stage 3. Students are encouraged to make use of morning and after-school home learning clubs if they need help with any of this.
Aims of home learning at NGA
- Provide students with the opportunity to consolidate and solidify the key knowledge that has been learned in the classroom
- Develop an effective partnership between the school, parents and carers in pursuing the academic aims of the school and the development of their child.
- Extend knowledge and skills beyond the curriculum; for example, through additional reading
- Encourage students to develop the confidence, self-discipline and independence needed for home learning
Home study tasks should be undertaken to the best of student ability. We hope that teachers, parents and carers will be willing and able to give their active support to ensure that work completed at home is done so conscientiously and in the best possible conditions.
Home Learning will be recorded by the student in their planner on both the day set and the day due; further details will be found on FROG or accompanying resources. Students have been informed of this in assemblies.
Practice
As a school, we want to place careful stipulations on home-study tasks. Departments have been strongly encouraged to make efficient use of technology because these approaches have proved successful in Maths, English and Geography in particular.
Home study will always be set at the same time, in the same format and in the same way by departments. It will always be appropriate for the ability range of the students and will always be inclusive. It will always involve one of the elements below:
- the relearning, revision or consolidation of classroom learning
- the reimagining or recreation of a concept or concepts studied in classrooms
- independent reading practice
- revision or preparation for summative assessments
Year 7 and 8 will complete independent reading 3 times a week for 20 minutes, Sparx Maths, Science, Geography and/or History and a language.
Students can also undertake project-based tasks in their other subjects but only one per half term, per subject. This must result in an artefact being created. This could be an object, a piece of art, drama, technology or food. See below:
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HT 1
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HT 2
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HT 3
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HT 4
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HT 5
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HT 6
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History
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Music
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Technology
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Art
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History
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Food Tech.
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Years 9-11 will complete all timetabled subjects.
Teachers will never:
- Set work to be completed for the next day
- Set any work that involves finishing off work not completed in lessons
- Set work based on concepts or knowledge that haven’t been taught yet
- Set work that takes an excessive amount of time to complete
- Set work that requires onerous or excessive materials or resources to complete
Feedback
At KS3, all home learning tasks should be self/peer or Online/FROG-marked which in turn could be tracked. Reading is tracked by Accelerated Reader and by AAN and the NGA Reading team. The impact of KS4 homework can be seen through in-class application and assessment practice.
Praise (stamps/postcards) will be used to recognise completed homework; planner comments and incentives will be issued for non-completion. Comments for failure to complete will be issued at the end of a lesson and never at the beginning.