What topics are included in homework and how are they ordered?

The In Focus section (around 60%) of Compulsory homework is based on the topics that have been added to the Planner in that week. It may also include additional supporting topics when we believe that these will be needed, in order for students to access the topics that have been set by the teacher.

If all the topics in the Planner are new (i.e. they haven’t been seen by the students before), then we will work through these topics in the order that they appear in the Planner, delivering questions from the first Objective in each case before cycling back around again if there are any topics with more than one objective within them. If any supporting topics are required these will appear before the topic that they are designed to support. 

If there are more topics than we can fit into the In Focus section of homework then these topics will be delivered in XP Boost homework and, if they are still not seen by students, then we will aim to include them in the Consolidation section of compulsory homework in future weeks.

When some or all of the homework planner topics have been seen by students before, we will follow a similar process but will prioritise the topics which the student has not attempted or has made the least progress on in the past, meaning the topics may not be delivered in the same order as shown in the homework planner.

If there are no topics set in the week, then the whole homework will contain topics from Consolidation. In some rare examples early in the year where a class won't have seen many topics in previous weeks, then we will use introductory content for the appropriate curricula (e.g. KS3 or GCSE).

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