Home Learning

Rationale

Home learning has an impact by enabling pupils to undertake independent learning to practice and consolidate skills, conduct in-depth inquiry, prepare for lessons or revise for exams

Education Endowment Foundation 2024 

Home Learning is work that is set to be done outside the timetabled curriculum. It contains an element of independent study in that it is not usually directly supervised by a teacher. It is important in raising student achievement.

Home Learning enhances student learning, improves achievement and develops students’ study skills and as such is an integral part of the curriculum. It requires careful planning and integration into the scheme of work of each curriculum area.

Aims

• Increase parental engagement and support with learning and curriculum delivery.
• Increase engagement with learning by pupils.
• Increased ownership of learning by the pupils.
• Embedding learning through regular practice beyond school.
• Pupils build key learning habits which will help them at KS4.
• Improve pupil attainment and progress at KS3 and 4.

Home Learning Overview:

Each subject will aim to set relevant and rigorous activities via Class Charts.

Departments will aim to use a mixture of activities to facilitate subject knowledge retrieval and skills development. In addition, at KS4 home learning will focus on preparation for future lessons in Year 10 and revision and completion of exam question practice in Year 11.

Setting, Support and Challenge: 

Some pupils may experience barriers to completing home learning, therefore the school will provide appropriate time, space, and resources on site to support pupils in completing their home learning.

Completion and submission of home learning will be rewarded with a positive point from Class Charts.

Non-submission of home learning will be challenged with a negative point from Class Charts and a 30-minute obligatory attendance at home learning support in S1 to be automatically set by Class Charts for the next day:

• If the pupil completes and submits the home learning task to the teacher by first break, the next morning, then the obligatory attendance at home learning in S1 will be cancelled.
• If the pupil fails to submit the home learning task the following day, then he/she will complete the obligatory 30-minute attendance at home learning support in S1.
• If the pupil then fails to attend the obligatory 30-minute attendance at home learning support in S1, they will then be issued with an additional negative and a 45-minute detention as part of the centralised detention system.