Religious Education Department Homework Policy
1. RE requires students to complete homework once per week. (For precise times for each year group, see School Homework Policy). The School Homework Policy outlines the value of homework. Homework is one vehicle for implementing some of the aims of the RE Department. The nature of homework will vary with the topic under study.
2. Each tutor group has a homework timetable, detailing when each piece is set and to be given in. The time allocated for completion gives the student flexibility for research and planning his/her time before the completion date.
3. We expect completed homework to be given in on time. This gives students valuable experience of working to deadlines and facilitates staff with their marking schedules.
4. If homework is not given in appropriate action is taken: students may be required to attend a detention session to complete the work or some other appropriate task.
5. Homework tasks will vary:
a) Reading a text, document or other literature.
b) Planning, writing or redrafting a piece of written work.
c) Research, collection of information for an individual or group project, such as a group discussion.
d) Completing an exercise to practise, enforce or apply skills taught in the class work.
e) Writing up class notes
f) An extended piece of writing whose completion may take several sessions.
g) A piece of illustrative work which reflects the subject of the lesson
h) The appropriate task selected by the teacher is commensurate with the ability of the students.
i) All homeworks will be linked to our scheme of work, but some may more closely be linked to one or more of the Agreed Syllabus’s Attainment Targets.
6. Marking homework forms an integral part of our assessment - see the Assessment Policy. We aim to return marked homework to the students as soon as possible, for inclusion in that specific unit of work and whilst the exercise is fresh in the student’s mind.
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