Books are taken home from Early Years through to Primary with a variety of homework activities. Older Key Stage 1 students learn spellings and perform mathematical type tasks as part of their homework. We also ask our students to talk about school topics, notably related to the Discovery unit, at home whilst studying it in school. At Key Stage 2 we continue to give students homework but we expect them to do more tasks independently. We set English, Maths and Discovery related homework routinely and we expect our students to consolidate and reinforce learning undertaken in school through practice at home. We may also set homework as a means of helping our students to revise for tests as well as to ensure that prior learning has been understood. We steadily increase the amount of homework that we give our students as they move through our school. We expect our Key Stage 1 students to spend approximately one hour a week doing homework, although this may well include reading with a parent.
We expect our students in Years 3 and 4 to spend approximately 15–20 minutes per night on homework and students in Years 5 and 6 to spend approximately 30 minutes per night.
In Years 7, 8 and 9, home-learning units of time will be allocated based on the time each subject is given over the 10 Day timetable. This allocation will provide students with an average of 1-1.5 hours of home learning for each timetabled day. In Year 10 and 11, students should expect 1-2 hours of work each evening. A Level students should expect approximately 1 hour of home learning for each hour spent in lessons.