Year 8 Homework

“Practice of what is taught”

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 five 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 every day from 8am until 5pm, before school, at break time and lunch time, and after school.

Here is the homework summarised from each subject:

Science, PSHE, Computing, History, Geography, Religion & World Views – Cornell note taking from knowledge organisers
English - Sparx Reader
Maths - Sparx Maths
Languages – sentence builders
Art and Music – forms quiz on knowledge learnt

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