Homework Timetables 2024-25

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At The Castle School we value homework as we know the benefits it brings to our students. The Educational Endowment Foundation suggests students can make 5 months additional progress with regular purposeful homework and we achieve this by practicing what is taught.

Each student will be given a homework booklet to complete their homework in and a knowledge organiser booklet with the necessary knowledge to help them complete their homework.

Each student should spend 30 minutes on each task following the timetable in the homework booklet. Their homework booklet will be checked (which will likely be their next lesson) and the knowledge will be referred to in lessons. The library is available until 5 pm each evening where help with homework is available.

Here is the homework summarised from each subject:

• English, Science, History, Geography, Religion & Worldviews, Computing, PSHE, DT and Food – Cornell Note Taking from knowledge organisers.
• MFL – sentence builders from knowledge organisers.
• Art – natural forms research task.
• Music – knowledge quiz from knowledge learnt in the first half term.
• Sparx Maths – teacher set task and independent learning task.
• Sparx Reader.
• Reading articles – these link to the whole school pastoral theme each week.

‘Practice of what is taught’

Please see below for resources and videos to help complete homework:

Here is the homework booklet for the first half term.

Here is the knowledge organiser booklet.

Here is an electronic version of the Cornell sheet should you need it for ICT, dictating into or in case you make a mistake/need an extra sheet.

This video shows you how to undertake the Cornell Note Taking method.

This video show you how to use the ‘read aloud’ function on Microsoft Word and PDFs if you need your homework to be read to you.

This video shows you how to use ICT or the ‘scribe’ function.

Here are the reading articles for each week being ready by a teacher. You can listen to them explain some background knowledge about the text, highlight and explain any key words which help understand the article, listen to them read and then have the opportunity to undertake choral reading along with the teacher

Wednesday Week 1

Wednesday Week 2

Wednesday Week 3

Wednesday Week 4

Wednesday Week 5

Wednesday Week 6