KS3 & Year 10

Homework at St Dunstan’s will primarily be used to reinforce students' prior learning. It will give teachers the opportunity to assess knowledge retention for our students. In some cases, homework may ask students to explore ideas needed for future learning, thus developing the ability of our students to conduct research. Homework tasks may be set in a variety of formats, for example, it could be a written task or an online activity. 

Year 11

During Year 11 homework will be used to develop our students’ ability to answer GCSE exam style questions (or equivalent level 2 qualification). In addition to our regularly set homework, past papers and revision materials will be made available for students to access at any point in the year. For this purpose, we have a revision website available specifically for our year 11 students. You can find a link to this website under ‘Information for Students and Parents’ drop down. 

Timetable 

To help our students to manage homework. Subject teachers will set it in accordance with a rota. This will prevent too many homework activities being set on the same day. Teachers will enter details of what has been set on the Talaxy portal, this will enable both students and parents to check what has been set and see when the due date is.  

Rewards and Sanctions

Students who complete homework to a good standard will be recognised by the class teacher and the student should be rewarded with a Track Point.

Students who do not complete homework to a good standard, or in a timely fashion, will be challenged. Students who repeatedly submit homework late, or to a poor standard, will be set for a restoration so that they are supported to catch up on the work they have missed.

Homework Frequency

See the table below for the frequency of homeworks set at KS3.