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Homework

Subject Year 7 Homework Year 8 Homework Year 9 Homework
Ancient Greek    

What: Vocabulary learning

How Often: 30-45 mins - once a week

Art

What: A range of drawing and painting and research tasks to completing work started in class. Students will need access to the internet and a colour printer in order to complete the research tasks and will need basic art equipment at home including a good set of colour pencils and a small set of watercolours. Students will be given a sketchbook where the main homework tasks will be listed.

How Often: 30-60 minutes once a week.

What: A range of drawing and painting and research tasks to completing work started in class. Students will need access to the internet and a colour printer in order to complete the research tasks and will need basic art equipment at home including a good set of colour pencils and a small set of watercolours. Students will be given a sketchbook where the main homework tasks will be listed.

How Often: 30-60 minutes once a week.  

What: Tasks range from drawing and painting and research tasks to completing work started in class. Students will need access to the internet and a colour printer in order to complete the research tasks and will need art equipment at home including a good set of shading pencils, good colour pencils and a set of watercolours. Projects are accompanied by homework lists which can be found in students sketch books.

How Often: 1-2 hours once a week.

Business    

What: Varies depending on topic, could be research of entrepreneur, learning key terms, finance revision, poster work linked to topic area.

How Often:

Computing

 

 

What: Tasks could include learning vocabulary, undertaking programming tasks on a specific software, carrying out research and creating a task on a specific piece of software and project work.

How Often: 1 hour once a week. 

Drama

What: Homework tasks include learning lines, researching a topic, preparing a presentation with a group, learning Drama vocabulary, creating stages/masks and researching definitions.

How Often: One piece of work set each half term. 

What: Homework tasks include learning lines, researching a topic, preparing a presentation with a group, learning Drama vocabulary, creating stages/masks and researching definitions.

How Often: One piece of work set each half term.

What: Complete rehearsal at home as needed to prepare for performance assessments.

How Often: One piece of work set every two weeks

Design Technology

What: Reseach tasks including finding out about fibres/ materials/designers. It may also include extension work from lesson, and completing a task that was started in the lesson. There may be mini quizzes.

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

What: Reseach tasks including finding out about fibres/ materials/designers. It may also include extension work from lesson, and completing a task that was started in the lesson. There may be mini quizzes.

How Often: 30 minutes once a week. 

What: Revision guide and work book and GCSE bitesize and technology student

How Often: 45 minutes once a week.

Food

What: Evaluations from tasting lessons, and evaluations from cooking at home. It will also involve sourcing and bringing in ingredients for the next practical lesson.

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

What: Evaluations from tasting lessons, and evaluations from cooking at home. It will also involve sourcing and bringing in ingredients for the next practical lesson.

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

What: Evaluations from tasting lessons, and evaluations from cooking at home. It will also involve sourcing and bringing in ingredients for the next practical lesson.

How Often: 45 minutes once a week.

English

What: Respond to a given guided reading question in response to the text they are reading.

How Often: Reading Log: Record a minimum of 4 times a week plus one 30 minute written piece.

What: Respond to a given guided reading question in log in response to the text they are reading.

How Often: Reading Log: Record a minimum of 4 times a week plus one 30 minute written piece.

What:  Tasks will include revision of key knowledge, terms, context, characters, events linked to topic and texts being covered in class.

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

Geography

What: Range of tasks - e.g. research, extended writing, creative poster work, revision, learning key terms, project work.

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

What: Range of tasks - e.g. research, extended writing, creative poster work, revision, learning key terms, project work.

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

What: Range of tasks - e.g. research, extended writing, creative poster work, revision, learning key terms, project work.

How Often: 30 - 45 minutes once a week.

History

What: A creative piece and a key terminology sheet to learn (30 minutes per fortnight) every half term.

How Often: Two 30 minutes pieces per fortnight.

What: A creative piece and a key terminology sheet to learn (30 minutes per fortnight) every half term.

How Often: Two 30 minutes pieces per fortnight.

What: One will be creative, one will be a written piece and one will be based on learning key terminology.

How Often: 30-45 minutes three times per half term.

Health & Social Care    

What: Carry out research tasks on topics covered.

How Often: One piece every two weeks.

ICT

What: Tasks could include learning vocabulary, undertaking programming tasks on a specific software, carrying out research and creating a task on a specific piece of software.

How Often: 30-45 minutes - once a week.

What: Tasks could include learning vocabulary, undertaking programming tasks on a specific software, carrying out research and creating a task on a specific piece of software.

How Often: 30-45 minutes - once a week.

What: Creative Media - Varies depending on the topic and could include research, creative or written tasks.

How Often: Once a week.

Latin

What: Vocabulary learning and one creative piece.

How Often: 30 minutes - 3 times per term.

What: Vocabulary learning

How Often: 30 minutes - once a fortnight.

What: Vocabulary learning

How Often: 30-45 minutes - once a fortnight.

Maths 

What: Set written worksheet/ homework book work and in the next week set online homework (using mymaths/kerboodle)

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a week.

What: Worksheet/ homework book and in the next week set online homework (using mymaths/kerboodle)

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a week

What: Worksheet/ homework book and in the next week set online homework (using mymaths/kerboodle)

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a week. 

Media    

What: Directly linked to content that is being taught at the time. The tasks vary widely from preparing for lessons coming up by reading, watching videos or finding props, to consolidating work covered by writing assignments and responding to feedback. Learn key terminology by completing vocab quizzes.

How Often: Set once per cycle

Modern Foreign Language 

What: Can be vocabulary learning / a worksheet, a creative task or online work on a language website (Quizlet or www.languageonline.org.uk)

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

What: Can be vocabulary learning / a worksheet, a creative task or online work on a language website (Quizlet or www.languageonline.org.uk)

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

What: Can be vocabulary learning / a worksheet, a creative task or online work on a language website (Quizlet or www.languageonline.org.uk)

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a week.

Music

What: One formal, assessed piece of homework, and 1-2 informal pieces.

How Often: Between 15-60 minutes on each piece each term.

What: One formal, assessed piece of homework, and 1-2 informal pieces.

How Often: Between 15-60 minutes on each piece each term.

What: One formal, assessed piece of homework and 2-3 informal written pieces. Regular practice of instrument expected as part of homework for Music.

How Often: Between 15-60 minutes on each piece each term and 1 hour minimum instrument practice per week.

Physical Education    

What: Tasks may include using Everlearner to consolidate learning, worksheets, research tasks, flip learning tasks

How Often: 30 minutes once a week.

Philosophy, Religion and Ethics

What: The expectation is that for some of the weeks, this will involve a written task, but prior to tests revision as homework is acceptable.

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a month.

What: The expectation is that for some of the weeks, this will involve a written task, but prior to tests revision as homework is acceptable.

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a month.

What: The expectation is that for some of the weeks, this will involve a written task, but prior to tests revision as homework is acceptable. 

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a month.

Science

What: A spelling and keyword test at the start of a new topic. Homeworks may involve Kerboodle quizzes, research, assessed tasks, flipped learning, making models and home experiments, watching clips to support learning.

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a week.

What: A spelling and keyword test at the start of a new topic. Homeworks may involve Kerboodle quizzes, research, assessed tasks, flipped learning, making models and home experiments, watching clips to support learning.

How Often: 30-40 minutes once a week.

What: Homework may involve Kerboodle quizzes, research, past exam questions, flipped learning, making models and home experiments, watching clips to support learning.

How Often: 40-60 minutes once a week.