Modern Foreign Languages Department
All students will complete twelve written homework tasks during an academic year. These will be completed in a separate homework book.
As learning vocabulary and grammar is a vital part of learning a foreign language, written tasks will be supplemented with one vocabulary or grammar learning homework per week at the teacher’s discretion, which will be tested and results recorded in the back of the Homework book. This links to the Head’s advice that learning of the work of each day should be done as a matter of course.
A sheet outlining the twelve tasks will be stuck inside the homework book. Students will need to record the date the homework is due to be handed in. Parents are asked to sign that each homework task is completed. This should be done at least once every half term.
A sheet outlining the department homework policy will also be stuck in the front of the exercise book.
Students are asked to start each piece of work on a new page and to give work a clear heading and to include the date in the target language.
Assessment criteria will be made clear to students before they complete a homework task.
At key stage three, most homework tasks will be assessed according to national curriculum levels. At key stage four and five homework tasks and practice examination answers will be assessed according to examination criteria.
MFL teachers will usually make at least one positive comment on homework and give at least one To improve: suggestion.
Teachers will also use departmental cachets/sellos to reward improvement, effort or excellence and MFL department postcards may be sent home to reward sustained effort, excellence or improvement, ie, 30 cachets/sellos.