Home learning is an important part of Chestnut Grove Academy’s curriculum because it increases learning time by 25 percent a year and enables students to develop their knowledge and understanding independently.

It is also important because is it the main channel by which education becomes a shared responsibility between home and school.

Home learning assignments are set on Microsoft Teams and all students have access to Microsoft Office. For more information, please log in to Teams and access the relevant Year Group Team. If you have forgotten or lost your login details or password, you can reset them by clicking here.

At Key Stage 3, the majority of subjects set home learning once a week. Subjects such as PBE have one lesson per week and therefore, set homework twice per half term. Performing Arts set one written home learning per half term due to rotation of dance and drama.

In their first four weeks, Year 7 Students are introduced to home learning through a phased approach and assignments will be set in English, Maths, Science, Health, Modern Foreign Languages and Philosophy, Beliefs and Ethics. After the first four weeks, home learning assignments are set as per the home learning timetable in all subjects.

At Key Stage 4, subjects set home learning assignments once a week.

In the Sixth Form students will be set a minimum of five hours of independent study for each subject taken.

YEAR 7 HOME LEARNING TIMETABLE

Year 7 students are expected to spend 30 - 45 minutes on each individual piece pf homework.

30-45 minutes per subject per week for English, Maths, Science, History, Geography and MFL.

30-45 minutes per subject twice per half term for Health, Design Technology, Performing Arts, and PBE.

2 hours per half term for Art.

In their first four full weeks, Year 7 Students are introduced to home learning through a phased approach and home learning will be set in English, Maths, Science, Health, MFL, and PBE.  From Monday 9th October 2023, home learning is set as per the home learning timetable in all subjects.

YEAR 8 HOME LEARNING TIMETABLE

Year 8 students are expected to spend 30-45 minutes on each individual piece of home learning. 

Please note that students can be in different sets for different subjects.

30-45 minutes per subject per week for English, Maths, Science, History, Geography and MFL.
30-45 minutes per subject twice per helf term for Health, Design Technology, Performing Arts, and PBE.
2 hours per half term for Art.

YEAR 9 HOME LEARNING TIMETABLE

Year 9 students are expected to spend 45-60 minutes on each individual piece of home learning. 

Please note that students can be in different sets for different subjects.

YEAR 10 HOME LEARNING TIMETABLE

Time spent on home learning 60 minutes per subject per week.  Students should also be revising topics throughout Year 10 and Year 11 to help them prepare for their assessments. This could be making notes, spider diagrams, cue cards, BBC bitesize online, working through revision books.
Where possible, please provide your child with a quiet space in which to complete home learning, with access to a desk or table. Students are set work for every subject. If you are concerned that home learning is not in the student planner, please contact your child's subject teacher or their tutor. PBE will be set once a week on the day that students have their PBE lessons.

YEAR 11 HOME LEARNING TIMETABLE

Time spent on home learning 60 minutes per subject per week.  Students should also be revising topics throughout Year 10 and Year 11 to help them prepare for their assessments. This could be making notes, spider diagrams, cue cards, BBC bitesize online, working through revision books.
Where possible, please provide your child with a quiet space in which to complete home learning, with access to a desk or table. Students are set work for every subject. If you are concerned that home learning is not in the student planner, please contact your child's subject teacher or their tutor.