Homework

At Notley High School, KS3 students can expect weekly homework from English, Maths and Science. This work should take approximately 30 minutes in years 7 and 8, and 40 minutes in year 9. Fortnightly homework will be set in MFL, History, Geography, ICT and ADT. Homework will concentrate on consolidation, recall and revision as well as practising key skills. 

During KS4, students should expect one piece of homework a week from each of their subjects, which should take them a minimum of 45 minutes for them to complete. Individual subjects decide on the nature of homework set but will focus on recall, learning and knowledge retrieval where possible. 

Key Stage 5 students are expected to complete at least 4 hours of work for each subject each week, outside of lessons. To support with this, students have timetabled supervised study and will be set independent study tasks each fortnight. However, there is also an expectation that Sixth Form students will complete self-directed study in addition to work they are explicitly set.

Feedback on homework can be done via self and peer assessment, computer-based assessment (such as Bedrock, Sparx and Seneca) that teachers monitor, discussions in class or teacher assessment. For certain tasks such as flipped learning and revision, the homework itself may not be explicitly fed back on, but the work it leads to should be.   

Satchel One will be used to set all homework throughout the school and sixth form. Teams may be used as a workspace for students, but all homework will be signposted on Satchel One to allow students and parents to keep track of work that is due and plan accordingly.    

During exam periods, there will also be extra homework to complete in the way of revision, which allows students to independently go over topics from any point in their studies.