Students' working at home is an essential part of their learning and skills development. Research undertaken by national bodies and Ofsted has demonstrated the impact of the work completed outside of lessons and its positive contribution to students' success.
We believe that students need
Students' working at home is an essential part of their learning and skills development. Research undertaken by national bodies and Ofsted has demonstrated the impact of the work completed outside of lessons and its positive contribution to students' success.
We believe that students need to be encouraged to become more independent in their learning and to link work at home to learning over periods of time. To this end, students will be provided with 'Prep Work' as homework.
Prep work is an activity/task/worksheet linked to the next, future or a series of lessons in a subject area.
The purpose of Prep Work is:
- To encourage students to develop the skills, confidence and motivation needed to study effectively on their own
- To raise academic standards
- To consolidate and reinforce learning, skills and understanding developed at school
- To sustain the involvement of parents and carers in the management of students' learning and to keep them informed about the work that students ar