At Blaise High School, we recognise that completing homework each day with Integrity can have a huge positive impact on students’ learning of key knowledge, their progress and confidence.

Our homework systems have been designed based on scientific research into how students learn. We know that we need to rehearse things many times to be able to remember them for a long time. We also know that becoming an expert in any area requires us to learn key knowledge as a starting point.

This is why our homework system is based around every student using their Knowledge Organiser to self-quiz. Repeatedly rehearsing this knowledge, using the Look, Cover, Write, Check process, will allow students to learn key knowledge over time that will lead to fantastic progress and outcomes.

Our homework system is also intended to be easy for students and families to understand, so that every student is able to complete homework with Integrity each day, contributing to their progress in school.

 

This video gives key information about why we have the homework system that we have at Blaise:

 

This video gives key information about what homework your child needs to complete each day and week at Blaise:

 

This video gives guidance about how you can best support your child to self-quiz effectively at home:

This section of our website has electronic copies of the 24/25 Knowledge Organisers to date, in addition to the physical copy of the Knowledge Organiser your child has with them at home and in school each day.

Sparx Maths 24/25 information

The timetable below shows when each year group will be set Sparx homework and when they will need to hand it in.

Just like self-quizzing, Sparx homework contains knowledge that students have been learning in lessons and will use in future lessons. Each week our Maths teachers carefully decide which topics students will answer questions on.

It is therefore vital that students have 100% completion each week – students who do this throughout their time at Blaise succeed in becoming outstanding Mathematicians who achieve outstanding results at GCSE and go onto great future success.

	Set	Due	Starting from
Y7	Thursday 8am	Wednesday 11pm	Thursday 19/09/24*
Y8-10	Thursday 8am	Wednesday 11pm	Thursday 12/09/24
Y11	Wednesday 8am	Tuesday 2pm	Wednesday 11/09/24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Maths teachers will spend 1 lesson with each Y7 group to set up their Sparx accounts before this first homework is set

The video below gives further detail on what students will see when they login, as well as how you can support them with Sparx at home:

Thank you for all the support you give to your child – if you require any further assistance, please email info@blaisehighschool.co.uk and an appropriate member of staff will respond to your query.