Home Learning
Home Learning Principles
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.
- Feedback is essential for any home learning task, and this is always our first consideration when setting a task.
- Many home learning tasks set are focused on the recall 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 home learning task per week, other subjects will set between 1 and 3 tasks a half term as appropriate.
- Tasks set are short and focused
- At Key Stage 4 in preparation for GCSEs students will be expected to complete around 2 hours + of home learning per day. 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 Show My Homework, accessible online by both students and their parents.
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 Mr Malan.
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.
Our behaviour expectations apply during home learning club and students are expected to be Ready, Responsible and Respectful. Failure to meet these expectations may result in that student not being able to access home learning club in the future.