Home Learning
Home Learning Principles
We believe that home learning is an essential part of the learning experience for all students at KWS. It is an opportunity to consolidate learning and develop resilience, organisation skills and independence along with the other characteristics of successful learners.
We follow a set of key principles when setting home learning at Katherine Warington, to ensure any task set is meaningful and has a positive impact on learning.
- Home learning tasks are only set if they truly enhance learning.
- Many home learning tasks are focused on the recall/consolidation of prior learning and expanding our students’ vocabulary (often referencing knowledge organisers). Others will focus on preparation tasks (often referred to as flipped learning) or extending writing.
- At Key Stage 3 Core subjects and languages will set one piece of home learning per week, other subjects will set between 1 and 3 pieces of homework a half term as appropriate. Each homework may be made up of different tasks where appropriate.
- At Key Stage 4 in preparation for GCSEs students will be expected to complete around 2 hours + of home learning per day which can include independent study. Home learning will also incorporate non-examined assessment tasks.
- Teachers set home learning in their own specialist areas which enable students to make the best possible progress.
- The length of each piece and the frequency in setting can be variable. However, all home learning tasks that are set will comply with the principles outlined above and sufficient time will be allocated for their completion.
- All home learning tasks will be outlined on Classcharts, accessible online by both students and their parents. Please follow this link to the Classcharts help guide to learn more about checking your child’s homework.
We expect all students to complete every home learning task to the best of their ability. If there are any issues that may affect the completion of a task, we expect students to speak to their teachers prior to the day the task is due.
Additional Support
If you would like to support your child in completing further independent study, please note they have access to the following websites/apps where they can find independent study materials:
- Google Classroom
- Everlearner (PE)
- Seneca
- Sparx Maths
- Sparx Science
- Languagenut
- Language Gym
- Arch Chinese
- Quizlet
- Bedrock Literacy
If you would like further information or guides on what students should be covering, please look at our subject pages for a detailed breakdown of the content being covered through the academic year.
Your child’s teacher will also be happy to provide additional information if requested.
Home Learning Club
At KWS, all students have the opportunity to sign up for the Home Learning Club after school. The club runs in the Library from 3.30pm until 4:30pm, Monday to Thursday each week and is supervised by a member of school staff..
If a student would like to attend the club they can go to the Library after school without pre-arranging this. We simply ask that students have gained permission from parents/carers to attend. This is the responsibility of the student and family to organise. We do not ask for or store any form of written permission.
When attending, students should sign in at the front desk of the Library. Before leaving, students sign out by recording the time they are leaving the club.
The club offers students the opportunity to complete home learning tasks in the afternoon, freeing up time in the evenings for other activities, such as sport, social and further study or revision. This is also a supervised club and so if students struggle with organising their home learning or struggle with a subject they can ask for support.