Year 8
The list below shows the dates that homework projects will start. These projects will come live on the “Show My Homework” 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 subject staff and the School's Homework Club.
The project outlines below are just a guide to the content, further differentiated support materials for students will be published on the Show My Homework system for each project.
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Date Set |
Project Subject |
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10th Sept |
Citizenship – Advertisements in the Media |
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24th Sept |
Textiles- Title to be confirmed |
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8th Oct |
English – My Identity in Verse |
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29th Oct |
RS– Brother Andrews |
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12th Nov |
History – The Renaissance |
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3rd Dec |
Geography – Migration Project |
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10th Dec |
DT – Dyson |
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7th Jan |
Performing Arts – Scripted plays |
| 21st Jan | English – Non Fiction |
| 25th Feb | Geography – Crime Project |
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11th March |
RS – The After Life |
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25th March |
Art – Dragons Project |
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During the weeks of 23rd, 29th April and 6th May All Depts. set structured revision homework tasks for KS3 examinations |
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| 14th May |
Performing Arts – Theatre in education |
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4th May |
English – Creative writing project |
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11th June |
Citizenship – An Alternative Form of Government |
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25th June |
History – The 1st World War |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8GL | Science | Maths | French | ||
| 8GR | Maths | Science | French | ||
| 8GM | Science | Maths | French | ||
| 8A | Computing* (Wk 2) | Food (Wk 1) | |||
| 8B | Computing* (Wk 1) | Food (Wk 1) | |||
| 8C | Food (Wk 1) | Computing* (Wk 2) | |||
| 8D | Food (Wk 1) | Computing* (Wk 1) | |||
| 8UL | Maths |
French |
Science | ||
| 8UR | Maths | Science | French | ||
| 8UM | Maths | French | Science | ||
| 8E | Computing* (Wk 2) | Food (Wk 1) | |||
| 8F | Computing* (Wk 1) | Food (Wk 1) | |||
| 8G | Food (Wk 1) | Computing* (Wk 2) | |||
| 8IL | French | Science | Maths | ||
| 8IR |
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Science | Maths | French | |
| 8H | Computing* (Wk 1) | Food (Wk 1) | |||
| 8I | Computing* (Wk 2) | Food (Wk 1) |
- 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
- The subjects in italics will have homework set on alternate weeks
- Computing homework will be set every other lesson
- Due to the nature of the Food Technology curriculum there may be instances where homework is set on week 2
- Any incomplete homework tasks should be logged as negative memos on the Class charts system
- Any high quality homework tasks should be logged as positive memos on the Class Charts system