Year 8
The list below shows the dates that homework projects will start, these projects will come live on the “ClassCharts” system on the stated Monday morning and students are expected to start the project on their own (not waiting for their subject lesson that week).
Full project guidance and resources will be made available and clear instructions on how to submit their work will be included. Student support is available from department staff and the School's Homework Club.
The project outlines below are a guide to the content, further differentiated support materials for students may be published on the ClassCharts system for each project.
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Week beginning |
Project Subject |
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21st Sept |
Citizenship – Advertisements in the Media |
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12th Oct |
English – My Identity in Verse |
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2nd Nov |
RS– Buddhism |
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16th Nov |
History – World War 1 |
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30th Nov |
Geography – Migration Project |
| 11th Jan | Performing Arts – Live Performance Review |
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25th Jan |
English – Non Fiction |
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22nd Feb |
Geography – The Middle East |
| 8th Mar | RS - Slavery |
| 22nd Mar | Art - Rousseau |
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During the weeks of 19th 26th April and 3rd May All Depts. set structured revision homework tasks for KS3 examinations |
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17th May |
History – The 2nd World War |
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7th June |
English – Creative writing project |
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21st June |
Citizenship – An Alternative Form of Government |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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| 8U | French | Maths | Science | ||
| 8L | French | Maths | Science | ||
| 8S | Maths | French | Science | ||
| 8T | Maths | Science | French | ||
| 8O | Science | Maths | French | ||
| 8N | Science | French | Maths | ||
| 8M | French | Maths | Science | ||
| 8R | Maths |
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Science | French | |
| Creative & Practical Subjects | |||||
| 8A | Food* |
Computing DT Wk 2 |
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| 8B | DT Wk 2 | Computing | |||
| 8C | DT Wk 2 | Food* | Computing | ||
| 8D |
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Computing | DT Wk 2 | ||
| 8E | Computing | DT Wk 2 | |||
| 8F |
DT Wk 2 |
Food* | Computing | ||
| 8G | DT Wk 2 | Computing | |||
| 8H | Computing | DT Wk 2 | Food* | ||
| 8I | DT Wk 2 | Computing | |||
- Mathematics and Science homework will be set only once per week but it should be aimed to last one hour ten minutes per subject per week
- For other subjects homework should be aimed to last 35 minutes per subject
- *Food homework is only set when the lessons occur. Homework is set every other week however there may be instances where homework is set each week eg when ingredients are needed.
- Details of homework will be published on ClassCharts, students should be encouraged to submit work by uploading it for feedback
- Any incomplete or not submitted homework tasks should be logged as negative memos on the ClassCharts
- Any high quality homework tasks should be logged as positive memos on the ClassCharts