Homework

Homework is an opportunity for parents or carers to participate in their child’s education. Homework complements and reinforces classroom learning, and fosters good lifelong study habits. Schools usually advise parents of homework expectations at the beginning of the year and provide a copy of the school’s homework policy.

Parents can help children by:

• encouraging a regular daily session to examine and complete homework
• discussing key questions or suggesting resources to help with homework
• helping to balance the amount of time spent between homework and recreational activities such as watching television or playing computer games
• asking how homework and class work is progressing, and acknowledging success
• attending school events, productions or displays their child is involved in
• talking to teachers to discuss problems with homework
• for upper primary and secondary students, checking whether homework has been set and ensuring that their child keeps a homework diary
• reading texts set by teachers
• discussing their child’s responses to set texts and asking to see work they complete in relation to these texts
• discussing homework with their child in their first language, if English is not the main language spoken at home, and linking it to previous experiences.

More information

For more information, you can contact the school, see: Schools Online (http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/schoolsonline) or Region