Homework and Reporting 8 Homework is given throughout the school to help support and consolidate pupil learning, develop healthy characteristics for learning, as well as give you an insight into their learning. The content and amount of homework is appropriate to the age group and curriculum being followed. Teachers provide parents and pupils with regular summaries of progress to help identify strengths and areas for further development. This is achieved through parents’ evenings, written reports and informal communications with parents as appropriate. Effort and achievement grades are used to provide guidance to pupils and parents of individual progress and assist staff in monitoring and tracking pupil progress within individual subject areas. The effort and achievement grades can be found here. In Years 3 to 5, grades will appear in written subject reports twice a year and may also be issued ahead of parents’ evenings in the form of an interim report. In Years 7 to 8, grades may also be used when marking regular classwork and homework when there is not an exercise specific marking criteria such as might be used with practice exam papers. Equally valuable is the ongoing dialogue with your child’s class teacher. Please do contact them for meetings as and when you need and expect the same from them in return. Reporting Pupils should write their homework in their prep diaries - this allows parents to know what their child has to do each night. As a guide, children in Years 3, 4 and 5 should spend no more than 30 minutes on homework each evening; and in Years 6, 7 and 8, no more than an hour. Teachers and parents work as a team, particularly when it comes to homework, so if your child has spent what you consider to be a reasonable amount of time on homework and has not been able to complete it, please let their teacher know. Homework
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