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Homework at secondary school (33 Posts) Add. OP, secondary teacher here (English is my subject). I think it's very rare that schools don't set homework. I set the following homeworks throughout the academic year: Year 7 and 8 - 2 homeworks per week. 1 is always reading (I say minimum 45 mins. for Y7 and 1 hr. for Y8 then writing in their reading logs) and the other is a written task taking.
Already some schools provide such supervised areas for study, but the government's proposals will now mean that homework clubs will become part of mainstream education. Teachers will be expected to help run these classes, which will begin when formal lessons finish. Whether they receive extra pay will depend on arrangements made by individual schools. Coinciding with the announcements on.
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There will now be regular check in dates, for example, having two completed by each half term, to ensure that all pupils meet the homework expectation. Home Learning Challenges - Spring 2016 Update. We have had a 100% completion success rate in terms of children completing at least 4 home learning challenges, with a high percentage of children completing more. Some children have completed all.
Year 4 Homework. Homework activities will be added to the website on a weekly basis, usually by a Thursday evening (see the dated posts below) and should be completed by the following Tuesday. Reading. Every week, we expect the children to read regularly. Ideally, all children will read every day but this does not need to be in the same way each time. Varying the way reading happens can help.
As Headmaster, I ought to be able to justify such a significant imposition upon Stockport Grammar School pupils; experience suggests that the quality of the work will be better if the pupils understand why they are asked to do something. As a parent of 3 children I am long used to homework debates at home and managing the emotional and temporal demands that homework makes. Herewith a few.