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Knowledge Organiser Homework Year 8
HOMEWORK
Homework at Kings’ is central to our mission of helping you have an inspiring future and building your exceptional character and achieving academic excellence.
It also embodies our values:
• Earn Success: Homework reinforces learning, and a strong work ethic.
• Discovering Brilliance: Homework encourages critical thinking and problem- solving, helping students discover their brilliance and unique abilities.
• Unlimited Ambition: Engaging in homework fuels intellectual curiosity and a desire for lifelong learning, going beyond the boundaries of formal education.
Short, regular homework should enable you to learn, or practise what you have been taught in school. To consolidate your learning, you can also practise learning from your knowledge organiser. Teachers will record the completion of the tasks and apply sanctions if there is a continued issue with homework.
Have you learned it?
Your Knowledge Organiser contains the core knowledge that you need to know and learn.
Use your Knowledge Organiser to see if you can complete the following activities. If you can do these things, you know something well. How many can you do?
1. Answer a question about it, under a time pressure. 2. Explain it in your own words.
3. Teach it to someone else.
4. Apply what you know in a new context.
5. Remember it a week, a month or a year later?
Some things that may help you remember information:
1. Well-designed flashcards that you have made with key information.
2. Mnemonics, such as “Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain” (visible light spectrum – the rainbow)
3. Mind maps (keep the paper landscape)
4. Timelines (dates of key events, in order)
5. A grid of key quotes according to characters and themes.
6. Creating a story that includes all the information.
7. Answering practice questions
8. Re-create a section of your Knowledge Organiser from memory.
Key Stage 3
For how long?
Set
Type of homework
Core
Science
Maths
English
Languages
30 minutes
30 minutes
30 minutes
20 minutes
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Once a week
Every day
Educake Knowledge Organiser
Sparx
Variable
Variable
Variable
Variable
Variable
Variable
Variable
Variable
Variable
Variable
Innovation Subjects
Tech
Computing
Humanities
Geography
History
RS
Creative Arts
Drama
Music
Art
Reading
20 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
20 minutes
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