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 and Hegarty Maths 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
Year 11 only
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, Year 10 and Year 11
Click ‘forgotten password’ or speak to your science teacher
Online English and geography homework
Year 10 and Year 11
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
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
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
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