Home Learning

The Vision

Home learning at Martin High School is designed and sequenced to secure and extend skills and knowledge in all subject areas. With a focus on current research, home learning commits knowledge and skills to the long-term memory through interleaving, spacing, the use of Knowledge Organisers and low stakes quizzes. At Martin High School we are aware that in achieving maximum impact, the timing of home learning is important and that subject requirements will differ. The experts in the departments plan for timely, strategic and meaningful activities that allow parents, carers, children and the school to work together in partnership to ensure our children make as much progress as they can.

The home learning

‘’I have no home learning’’ is not something Martin High School learners should ever say. The frequency of Home learning set will vary from subject to subject and year group to year group. It will be sequenced into the curriculum to have maximum impact on both learner progress and learner well-being by subject experts.

Additionally, all learners have access to a range of Knowledge Organisers, Graphic Organisers, and reading materials which are excellent methods of consolidating learner knowledge and strengthening schema – that is how they organise and remember facts. Leaving timed spaces between learning the material and revisiting it, has shown to improve retention and can done at home using the knowledge organisers.

Reading is essential in increasing learner vocabulary and every learner at the Martin High School has access to a range of reading materials. Encouraging your child to read for twenty minutes a night can be incredibly beneficial to their progress in school.

Finally, Hegarty Maths, Corbett Maths and SENECA learning are additional online resources that learners can use to re-visit material delivered in recent lessons. Access is available to these resources 7 days a week and all learners have been given an orientation of these systems by their teachers.

Subject	Online Resource	What to do if you cannot remember your password
English	https://app.senecalearning.com/login	Just click on the 'forgot password' link and a new one will be e-mailed
Maths	https://completemaths.com/	Contact your Maths teacher
Science	https://app.senecalearning.com/login	Just click on the 'forgot password' link and a new one will be e-mailed
Computing	https://revisecs.csuk.io/	Just click on the 'lost your password' link and a new one will be e-mailed
Design & Technology	https://app.senecalearning.com/login	Just click on the 'forgot password' link and a new one will be e-mailed
PE	https://vle.lionhearttrust.org.uk/	It is your school username and password

What makes home learning effective?

Cathy Vatterott (2010) identified five fundamental characteristics of good home learning: purpose, efficiency, ownership, competence, and aesthetic appeal.

• Purpose: all Home learning assignments are mean­ingful and learners must also understand the purpose of the assignment and why it is important in the context of their academic experience (Xu, 2011).
• Efficiency: Home learning should not take an inordinate amount of time and should require some hard thinking.
• Ownership: learners who feel connected to the content and assignment learn more and are more motivat­ed. Providing learners with choice in their assignments is one way to create ownership.
• Competence: learners should feel competent in completing home learning. In order to achieve this, it’s benefi­cial to abandon the one-size-fits-all model. Home learning that learners can’t do without help is not good home learning.
• Inspiring: A well-considered & clearly designed resource and task impacts positively upon student motivation.

References

• Home learning: How effective is it? Education Endowment Fund (2018)
• Does Home learning Improve Academic Achievement? A Synthesis of Research, 1987–2003 Harris Cooper, Jorgianne Civey Robinson, Erika A Patall
• Home learning for all–In moderation. Educational Leadership, Cooper, H. (2001). 58, 7. pp. 34-38
• Online mathematics Home learning increases student achievement (2016) AERA Open Online Mathematics Home learning Increases Student Achievement
• Jeremy Roschelle, Mingyu Feng, Robert F. Murphy, Craig A. Mason
• A systematic review of literature examining the impact of Home learning on academic achievement open_in_new Canadian Council on Learning Learning, Toronto (2009)
• Cooper, H., Robinson, J.C., Patall, E.A. ( A b s tr a c t arrow_downward )
• Are we wasting our children's time by giving them more Home learning? Eren, O., & Henderson, D. J.4 open_in_new Economics of Education Review, 30(5), 950-961 (2011)
• The relationship of Home learning to A-level results Tymms, P. B. and C. T. Fitz-Gibbon1 open_in_new Educational Research, 34(1): 3-19 (1999)
• Does Home learning Improve Academic Achievement? A Synthesis of Research 1987-2003 open_in_new Review of Educational Research, 76. 1 pp. 1-62 (2006)
• Dettmers, S., Trautwein, U., & Ludtke, O.3
• The relationship between Home learning time and achievement is not universal: evidence from multilevel analyses in 40 countries open_in_new School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 20(4), 375405 (2009)
• Canadian attitudes toward Home learning? A Survey of Canadian attitudes toward learning: Elementary and secondary school Home learning (2007)
• Home learning: What Does the Evidence Say? Huntington Research School (2007)