At Wadham school we value homework as we know the benefits it brings to our students. The Educational Endowment Foundation suggests students can make on average up to 5 months additional progress with regular purposeful homework. 

Departments set homework based on prior learning that gives pupils the opportunity to engage in retrieval practice either at home or in one of our homework clubs. As a result, pupils can do independent practice in their own time and, as teachers, we are able to use their performance to assess pupil understanding of our curriculum content.   

Sparx Maths, Sparx Reader, Active Learn and Seneca are online platforms used by departments to set homework tasks. These online platforms have been chosen because of their ability to track and monitor pupil progress as well as their wealth of ambitious content and resources that we believe best supports home learning.   

Below are the homework grids for this term.  The homework grids detail what homework needs to be done and on which online platform. The online platforms themselves have the due dates for each piece of homework.  

If you have any specific queries concerning homework, please contact Mrs Sarah Hutter – Assistant Headteacher (Teaching and Learning).