Student Handbook AY 20-21 (Final)

POLICY ON HOMEWORK

Homework is important to student learning at SISB Sixth School. Students are expected to have on average of
1 to 2 hours of homework per night. Homework is a vital part of the learning process and has direct impact on
the grading process.

DEFINITION

Homework is any activity or assignment directed by the teacher to be performed outside the classroom that may
include practising skills learned in class; writing, reading, revising or completing of assignments.

RULES FOR HOMEWORK

• Primarily about work to consolidate and build on class work as well as learn for tests, do independent research
etc within a reasonable time frame, with minimal adult help.
•Related to grade level or subject matter curriculum.
•Related to class instruction.
•Engaging, purposeful and relevant.
•Emphasis on quality over quantity.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Class work and homework missed because of an absence should be made up as soon as possible. This is the
student’s, and not the teacher’s, responsibility. Students should obtain telephone numbers of fellow students in
class and check with fellow classmates when absences occur so that work can be made known. Students should
absent for two or more days, class teachers should be informed and arrangements made for homework to be
emailed to student. The school strongly discourages taking students out of school for family vacations during
The absences are considered unacceptable and teachers are in no way obligated to supply your child with work
that will be missed.
• Homework assigned may constitute a percentage of the grade for the term and it is to be turned in when due. If

support and remediation if necessary. Teachers should also contact parents if a child is consistently unable to
complete the assigned work.
• Students have ultimate responsibility for ensuring that his or her work is authentic, with the
work of others or ideas of others fully and correctly acknowledged.

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