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Coolaroo South Primary School

Bushfield Crescent Coolaroo Victoria 3047
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Homework principles

Homework is another opportunity for parents to participate in their child’s education. Parents, in partnership with the school, should encourage their children to establish good homework patterns from early primary school.
Students benefit from completing homework regularly. Homework helps develop organisational and time management skills, self-discipline, skills in using out-of-school resources and personal responsibility for learning.
Homework can be negotiated in association with students and parents, taking into account the individual needs of students.

Successful Practice

Parents should be advised of homework expectations at the beginning of the school year and be provided with a copy of the school’s homework policy.
Failure by students to complete homework on a regular basis should be followed up with parents.

At Coolaroo South Primary School in the Early Years (Prep to Year 4), homework will:

  1. Enable the extension of class work by practising skills, or gathering extra information or materials in an enjoyable way
  2. It is expected that reading and practising reading skills is a major part of homework at this level. This will mainly consist of daily reading to, with, and by parents/caregivers or older siblings.
  3. Homework will generally range from 15 minutes a day at Prep up to 30 minutes a day in Year 4.

At Coolaroo South Primary School  in the Middle Years (Years 5 and 6), homework:

  1. Should include daily independent reading and regular reading to parents/caregiver or older siblings
  2. Should be coordinated between teachers
  3. May include extension of class work, projects and research
  4. Will involve the use of homework diaries which will help students develop the organisational and time-management skills needed for them to be responsible for their own learning as well as provide a means of regular communication between parents and the school
  5. Homework will generally range from 30-45 minutes a day at Years 5 & 6

Types of Homework

Homework should:

  1. Be appropriate to the student’s skill level and age
  2. Be interesting, challenging and, where appropriate give an opportunity for creativity
  3. Be balanced with a range of recreational, family and cultural activities
  4. Be purposeful, meaningful and relevant to the curriculum
  5. Be monitored/corrected by teachers and parents with feedback and support provided

Practice exercises-providing students with the opportunities to apply new knowledge, or to review, revise and reinforce newly acquired skills, for example:

  1. Memorisation of tables
  2. Practising spelling words
  3. Practising words or phrases learnt in a Language Other Than English
  4. Reading for pleasure
  5. Writing stories and other creative tasks
  6. Practising and playing musical instruments
  7. Practising physical education skills

Preparatory homework:- providing opportunities for students to gain background information for future lessons, for example:

  1. Researching topics for class work
  2. Oral discussions with others to gather information
  3. Collecting newspaper articles related to units of work

Extension assignments: – encouraging students to pursue knowledge individually and imaginatively, for example: