Abbot Beyne School Education Evening was held on the 3rd October 2024, please see the presentation slides below.
Education Evening Presentation
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Homework Policy
The purpose of homework at Abbot Beyne School is to promote deep and independent learning and to extend learning in lessons. Learning is the long-term retention of knowledge and the ability to transfer it to new contexts. As such, homework should support learning.
Homework tasks should:
- Require students to revise and consolidate previously taught knowledge
- Require students to practise new skills using that knowledge
- Require students to prepare for the learning that will take place the following lesson
- Encourage students to develop the practice of independent learning
- Develop perseverance, self-discipline and the ability to organise unsupervised study
- Open up areas of study and make possible the use of materials and sources of information that are not accessible in the classroom, promoting research skills
Individual teachers will specify how work is submitted. Our aim is to ensure ALL students engage in useful and meaningful activities outside the classroom. We ask parents to support us in seeing that homework is done conscientiously and in the best possible conditions.
Staff Guidance on Homework Tasks
All homework instructions will be set in Showbie on the school iPad and should include:
- The date the homework is due
- Explanation of the homework task
- Resources needed to complete the task
- Support and extension materials should also be available as appropriate
- Details of how the work will be evidenced and/or submitted to the teacher
Homework will be set in the following format on Showbie – Homework – <title of task>
Rewards, linked to our House Point System, will be given for high quality completion of homework. Students should receive homework every lesson (although for subjects with two lessons per week this can be combined in to one homework) along the following times:
Key Stage 3 – 20 minutes per homework
Key Stage 4 – 30 minutes per homework
Knowledge Organisers
Each subject makes use of knowledge organisers to support learning and teaching. A knowledge organiser is a single page document that contains the key terms and concepts that students need to learn for a unit of work.
The knowledge organiser is used in a number of ways:
- A point of reference for students
- An overview of the key content and concepts for a unit of work
- A revision aid for students
- A resource to support the process of low stakes testing
Research based best practice indicates that regular testing of students’ ability to recall knowledge improves student learning. Teachers make effective use of assessment in the classroom to facilitate this and knowledge organisers form the basis of much of this testing.
Click the link below to the parents’ guides to support your child