At Paddington, we believe that homework encourages the development of independent learning skills and allows students to take more ownership of their education. Promotion and emphasis of homework skills from the start of Year 7 helps to prepare students for Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 and, in turn, aids our students’ progression and development.
There are three types of homework:
Your child should receive one piece of homework from each of their subjects once a week, in addition to self-quizzing. This will mean that every day they should be completing homework from at least two subjects. Homework tasks will be varied but should include a mixture of activities that consolidate learning in class, extended writing and self-quizzing.
There is a daily homework club that takes place after school in the library. Students can use this time to complete homework in a quiet environment or ask for help from subject specialists. In addition, Sparx Maths, Sparx Reader and Sparx Science clubs run each week to support students with the completion of their homework tasks.
If you have any questions about homework, please contact your child’s Head of Year.
Online homework website
Which subject and year groups?
What if I can’t log on?
Online mathematics homework
Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10
Click ‘forgotten password’ or speak to your maths teacher
Online reading homework
Year 7 and Year 8
Click ‘forgotten password’ or speak to your English teacher
Online science homework
Year 7, Year 8, Year 9
Click ‘forgotten password’ or speak to your science teacher
Year 10 and Year 11
Online English, geography and RS homework
Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 and Year 13
Use the same e-mail address and password as Office
or speak to Mr Park
Online French and Spanish homework
Click ‘forgotten password’ or speak to your French or Spanish teacher
Year 11
Online learning platform for A Level Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Economics and Psychology
Please speak to the Sixth Form team
Online GCSE PE and Sport BTEC homework
Year 10, Year 11 and Year 13
Click ‘forgotten password’ or speak to your PE teacher
Access your school e-mail, Teams and more
All year groups
Go to the IT office next to room 214 at break or lunch
For every learning cycle, the content for each subject is distilled into a knowledge organiser. This provides key fingertip knowledge for each subject. For each cycle, all the knowledge organisers are collated into a 100% book or folder which each student receives. These 100% books underpin mapped revision homework, alongside regular skill-focused homework.
Students are also provided with a self-quizzing book, which they use in order to test themselves on the knowledge in their 100% book; self-quizzing is one of the most effective revision strategies to embed key knowledge. Students are taught how to use the read, cover, write, check revision strategy and question and answer flashcards to test themselves. This encourages students to take ownership of their learning, and to support them in developing good learning habits. Embedding this content is critical for long-term success and effective retrieval from long-term memory.
Students learn key information in their knowledge organisers by reading a small section, covering it up, saying the definitions to themselves, writing out those key terms and definitions in their self-quizzing books, then checking to see if they got them right. They should correct any errors in green pen, then repeat the process.
Set-up, read and cover - video
Write, check and repeat - video
Linked below is each year group’s 100% book. This contains the core knowledge that students must know for the subjects that they study in order the access the curriculum. We call it a ‘100% book’ because we expect all students to know 100% of the knowledge inside the book.
Every week, students are set definitions for every subject to self-quiz and memorise. Parents can help by taking their child’s 100% book and testing their child on the definitions that they’ve been asked to learn. If your child has self-quizzed successfully, they should be able to repeat back the definition to you.
Cycle 1 100% Books
Cycle 2 100% Books
To support pupils to memorise their definitions, students complete weekly knowledge tests across all of their subjects. Knowledge tests are short (between 3 to 5 minutes) and designed to support with retrieval practice – students recall key definitions that have been set for homework and write them down to check if they can recall the definition correctly.
We make reasonable adjustments in knowledge tests for a small number of pupils with SEND who find it more difficult to remember new material.
Each week, students are set definitions to learn from their ‘100% book’. As part of their homework, students self-quiz these definitions using the ‘read, cover, write, check’ approach. Students should write out their definitions at least three times using this approach. They should then correct in green pen.
Students write out the definitions for the key words that they have self-quizzed twice that week.
We know that when students are tested on these definitions, they have to think hard about the definitions and retrieve them from their long-term memory. The effort involved in this process helps students to remember the definitions that they need to be successful.
We’ve carefully selected the definitions in each knowledge organiser to represent the foundational knowledge pupils need to be successful. As a result, we expect students to achieve 100% in their knowledge test. This doesn’t mean that pupils need to write out their definitions word-perfect – but the meaning does need to be accurate.
Students in Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 are tested on 2 definitions in each subject each week.
Students in Year 10 and Year 11 are tested on 3 or 4 definitions in each subject each week.
Students in Year 12 and Year 13 are tested on 4 or 5 definitions in each subject each week.
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