Homework
Homework is used at Harris Academy Merton to reinforce learning in the classroom, allowing students to retrieve and apply knowledge from across the curriculum.
Homework helps students demonstrate their resilience through developing fundamental skills such as time management and organisation, eventually demonstrating mastery of material, and offers opportunities to show their integrity when completing without the assistance of a teacher. Homework gives students the opportunity for independent learning so they can thrive in a changing world.
KS3 Homework
Years 7, 8 and 9 will receive two types of homework. Online and project based homework.
Online Homework
- English homework will be through Microsoft Teams - https://teams.microsoft.com/
- Mathematics though Sparx - https://www.sparxmaths.uk/
- Science through Seneca - https://senecalearning.com/en-GB/
- Languages through language Nut - https://www.languagenut.com/en-gb/
- Bedrock - https://app.bedrocklearning.org/
Year 10s will also be expected to complete Bedrock tasks.
Project Based Homework
Projects are an amazing opportunity for students to engage with the curriculum in a different way. Also, for the students to develop key skills they would need in KS4 and KS5. It will give them more ownership of their work and it's an opportunity to be creative and to showcase skills that are not often recognised.
KS3 students will receive one humanities project and one arts project each half term. The expectation is that it will span the time of the half term.
KS4 and KS5 Homework
Years 10, 11, 12 and 13 will receive paper-based homework and study work. This will be set once per week for each subject. For every student, for every subject, students will therefore receive one piece of homework per week on green paper. Detentions will be assigned to Year 10 and sixth form students on the day their homework is due.