Homework Timetable

To help you support your child's learning outside of the classroom, we publish the homework timetable to tell you when your daughter can expect to be set homework in each of her subjects.

Please help her by:

• Providing a quiet place to work.
• Checking the time spent on individual tasks.
• Checking content and presentation of all homework being returned to school
• Signing the homework planner each week.
• Providing the school with information about any problems through the homework planner or by contacting the school directly.

Homework arrangements for 2019-2020

Year 7

Year 7 (Week 1)

	7X1	7X2	7Y1	7Y2	7Y3
Monday	English/Geog	English/IT	English/History	English/History	English/ French
Tuesday	Science/French	Science/Geog	Science/French	Science/Art	Science/IT
Wednesday	Maths/History	Maths/History	Maths/Geog	Maths/History	Maths/History
Thursday	DT	DT	IT	Geog	Geog/Music
Friday	RE/Drama	French/Art		Music	RE

 Year 7 (Week 2)

	7X1	7X2	7Y1	7Y2	7Y3
Monday	Maths/music	Maths/French	Science/Music	Drama/Science	Science/Art
Tuesday	French/RE		Maths/RE/Drama	IT/Maths	Maths/English
Wednesday	Art/IT	Art/Music/Drama	Art	French/Drama
Thursday	Science	Science	Drama/French/DT	DT	French/DT
Friday	English	English/French	English	English/RE	Drama

 Years 7-11 may be set homework tasks on Firefly. These will usually need to be completed and submitted electronically but may require hard copies. Students should be encouraged to check for new tasks set regularly to ensure that they do not miss deadlines.

Year 8

Year 8 (Week 1)

	8X1	8X2	8Y1	8Y2	8Y3
Monday	IT/Drama	MFL	MFL/History	MFL/Music	MFL/Art
Tuesday	History/Geog	Music/Art	DT/English	DT/English	DT/English
Wednesday	Science/MFL	Science/RE	Science	Science/Art	Science
Thursday	DT/Maths	DT/Maths	Drama/Maths	Maths/French	Maths/RE
Friday	English/French	IT/English	English/Music	Geography/English	IT/English

 Year 8 (Week 2)

	8X1	8X2	8Y1	8Y2	8Y3
Monday	English	English	RE/IT/Art	IT	Music/Drama
Tuesday	Maths/Music	Drama/History	Maths/Geog	Maths/History	Geog/History
Wednesday	Science	Geog/Science	Science/English	Drama/Science	Science/English
Thursday	Art	French		English
Friday	RE	Maths	French	RE	French/Maths

 Years 7-11 may be set homework tasks on Firefly. These will usually need to be completed and submitted electronically but may require hard copies. Students should be encouraged to check for new tasks set regularly to ensure that they do not miss deadlines.

 Year 9

Year 9 (Week 1)

	9X1	9X2	9Y1	9Y2	9Y3
Monday	Maths/Music	Maths/IT	Maths/RE	Maths/Drama	Maths/Music
Tuesday	English/Drama	English/Music	English/History	English/Music	English/Art
Wednesday	MFL/Science	MFL/Science	MFL/DT	MFL/DT	MFL/DT
Thursday	History/RE	Geog/RE	Drama/Music	IT/Art	RE/Drama
Friday		Drama	Science	Science/History	Science/History

 Year 9 (Week 2)

	9X1	9X2	9Y1	9Y2	9Y3
Monday	Maths/DT	Maths/DT	Maths/Art	Maths	Maths/IT
Tuesday	Art	History/Art	IT	RE
Wednesday	MFL/English	MFL/English	MFL/English	MFL/English	MFL/English
Thursday	Geog/Sci	Science			Geog
Friday	IT		Geog/Science	Geog/Science	Science

PE and Business- Project based (once a term).

 History and RE- Extended Project issued. Students will work on their project on the days specified above and will update their homework log to reflect the time spent and progress made.

 Years 7-11 may be set homework tasks on Firefly. These will usually need to be completed and submitted electronically but may require hard copies. Students should be encouraged to check for new tasks set regularly to ensure that they do not miss deadlines.

Year 10

Year 10 (Week 1)

	10X1	10X2	10X3	10Y1	10Y2	10Y3
Monday	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths
Tuesday	English	English	English	English	English	English
Wednesday	Option C: Languages Arabic, French, Urdu Option B: Art, Business, Drama, Food Tech, Health & Social Care
Thursday	Option A: Art, Food Tech, Health & Social Care, History, Music, Psychology
Friday	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science

 Year 10 (Week 2)

	10X1	10X2	10X3	10Y1	10Y2	10Y3
Monday	Maths RE and IT	Maths RE and IT	Maths	Maths RE and IT	Maths RE and  IT	Maths RE and IT
Tuesday	English	English	English	English	English	English
Wednesday	Option D: Geography, History, ASDAN
Thursday	Option C: Languages Arabic, French, Urdu
Friday	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science

Maths, English, Science and MFL (Option C) have homework 1x per week.

All other subjects have homework 1x per fortnight.

Re and IT are all on the same day on the timetable; however, these classes have a longer lead time for homework to be completed.

 Years 7-11 may be set homework tasks on Firefly. These will usually need to be completed and submitted electronically but may require hard copies. Students should be encouraged to check for new tasks set regularly to ensure that they do not miss deadlines.

Year 11

Year 11 (Week 1)

	11X1	11X2	11X3	11Y1	11Y2	11Y3
Monday	English	English	English	English	English	English
Tuesday	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths
	Option B: Business, Drama, Food Tech, Health & Social Care and Textiles
Wednesday	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science
Thursday	Option C: Languages Arabic, Bengali, French, Urdu
Friday	RE	RE		IT	IT	IT RE

 

Year 11 (Week 2)

	11X1	11X2	11X3	11Y1	11Y2	11Y3
Monday	English IT	English IT	English	English	English	English
Tuesday	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths	Maths RE	Maths
Wednesday	Option D: Geography, History, ASDAN Option A: Art, Food Tech, Health & Social Care, History, Music, Psychology
				RE
Thursday	Option C: Languages Arabic, Bengali, French, Urdu
Friday	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science	Science

Maths, English, Science and MFL (Option C) have homework 1x per week.

All other subjects have homework 1x per fortnight.

Re and PE are scatted across the timetable, so they appear on various days, according to the teaching group.

 Years 7-11 may be set homework tasks on Firefly. These will usually need to be completed and submitted electronically but may require hard copies. Students should be encouraged to check for new tasks set regularly to ensure that they do not miss deadlines.

Sixth Form

All students at Bordesley Green Girls’ Sixth Form are expected to study outside of lessons.

This additional study is essential if students are to achieve or exceed their target grade.

Failure to work outside of lessons is a breach of the Sixth Form Code of Conduct and will disadvantage students in terms of their final grade.

  Homework is set in order to:

• Reinforce and consolidate work covered in lessons
• Encourage independent and reflective learning
• Develop research skills
• Develop a deeper knowledge and understanding
• Prepare students for future lessons or assessments, especially in the case of flipped learning
• Promote an interest and joy in learning
• Enable teachers in to make a judgement about a student’s progress and level of attainment
• Access resources not available in the classroom.

 Homework will be varied in terms of tasks and relevant and rewarding for students. In vocational courses homework may constitute on-going work on unit assignments. Deadlines for all homework will be manageable for students.

Some homework will be assessed by teachers, often using exam board criteria and assessment objectives. Assessed homework will normally be returned to a student within 10 working days. Teachers will provide clear instructions and deadlines for homework.

 We recommend that for a Level 3 subject (AS, A2, BTEC, Applied, Cambridge Technical) students should study for at least as long (if not longer) as they spend in the lesson completing homework and following up on work they have covered lessons.

This means a one-hour lesson should result in 1-2 hours study later. This cannot all be completed during normal school hours; therefore students need to be working a 35-40 hours week (including lessons). For students re-sitting GCSE Maths and/or English alongside the Level 2 BTEC in WorkSkills, it is recommended that students should study for a minimum of two hours a day outside of lessons.

During the year when there are examinations or controlled assessments, homework will normally be to prepare and/or revise, where this is possible. Students are expected to work hard outside of lessons and if they fail to do so, the Sixth Form will take steps to support them.

Firefly - our virutal learning environment

Due to Sixth Form homework tasks being likely to consist of parts of extended assignments, Sixth Form homework will frequently be set as Firefly tasks which will include due dates. Depending on the task, the work may be submitted electronically or a hard copy.

Sixth Form students' are encouraged to download the Firefly app for their mobile phone or tablet which will help them in organising their independent learning.