Homework is an integral part of the learning process. Pupils receive regular homework that supplements and reinforces the work completed in the classroom. In Lower School, English, Maths and Humanities homework is set on Friday each week, whilst in Upper School it is set each day (for English, Maths, Spellings, Science and Humanities).

Parents and carers have a vital role to play in their child’s education, and homework is an important part of this process. To support pupils with their homework parents and carers are encouraged to:

Help their child as and when they feel it to be necessary

Discuss the work that their child is doing with them

Provide them with a reasonably quiet and suitable place to do their homework in

Enable their child to visit the library or use the internet as appropriate

Talk to the school if there are any problems with homework set by speaking to the class teacher

In addition, pupils are expected to read at home every day to an adult for at least 20 minutes, with the person hearing them read signing their Reading Record. Home Readers are changed on a weekly basis during the dedicated library session for each class.

The school subscribes to Times Tables Rock Stars, for which each pupil has their own personal login:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Projects

Pupils complete three projects during each academic year, which are set at the beginning of each term. Pupils then have the duration of that term to complete their project at home on a given topic and hand it in by the assigned deadline. Each project is given a mark out of 10, with any pupils scoring 28 or more out of 30 across the three projects receiving a special prize in the school’s end of year Special Awards Assembly. One of the projects completed is the school’s flagship ‘People in History’ project whereby pupils research the lives of an individual and present a written project about them. In each year group’s next Good Work Assembly following projects being submitted, the best ones in each class are presented and certificates given to those pupils completing the best projects. Parents are warmly invited to attend these assemblies.