Homework
During the course of every academic session, each student is expected to do the following:
- Regular personal reading (a minimum of 30 minutes, three times a week.) Ideally this should be a mixture of fiction and non-fiction. Texts can be accessed from libraries (school or town), home or friends.
- Catching up with work missed because of absence
- Finish work that is not completed in class
- Look over jotter work as much as possible (particularly in the senior school)
- Preparation for either a written or oral task in class
- Solo and group talk preparation (timed practices are helpful)
- Detailed note taking on text (Quotation searches/Evaluation statements) to help develop knowledge of the text
- Homework will be seen by students as a natural extension of their schoolwork and should be completed by the given date handed out by the teacher
- All homework should be recorded in the pupil planners
Below is a list of things that you can do at home in your spare time to enrich your understanding and appreciation of English:
- Read widely
- Visit an art gallery and research the life of your favourite artist
- Take a trip to the theatre
- Go to the cinema and write a review of the film
- Join a library
- Visit the National Library of Scotland
- Write a book review for the school website
- Read the same book as another member of your family and discuss it
- Recommend a book to someone
- Form a book group with your friends
- Find out about the North Berwick witches
- Visit the website of your favourite author
- Interview an older friend, relative or neighbour and find out about their childhood
- Read a book by a Scottish author
- Watch a DVD of a Shakespearean play
- Visit a book shop and choose a book for your next birthday/Christmas
- Write a letter to your favourite sports star/pop star/actor/author
- Write a thank-you letter to a friend/relative
- Send a postcard to a relative or friend
- Log your thoughts in a diary /journal for a month
- Make a scrap book following a news item that you are interested in
- Choose a news story and compare the way that it is communicated through the newspaper, on the TV, radio, and internet
- Make a scrap book of your favourite author/actor/pop star/sports star
- Visit a museum and fill out a comments form
- Write a letter to a friend or relative, telling them about a recent adventure
- Watch/go to a sporting event and write a review of it
- Write to a newspaper or magazine about an issue you feel strongly about
- Do crosswords and other word/spelling puzzles
- Read a newspaper regularly, particularly columnists
- Choose a recipe, and make it
- Help your parents construct flat pack furniture
- Play Scrabble
- Read a book of poems
- Write some poems
- Join a drama group
- Write and perform a play with your friends
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