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LIVE. LEARN. LEAD | QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE 9 • Apply all the learning strategies and Approaches to Learning skills they have acquired throughout the MYP years at Queen Margaret College • Reflect thoroughly on learning and on how well goals were achieved Ultimately the Community Project will: • Enable students to experience the responsibility of completing a significant piece of work over an extended period of time • Help students to develop key skills which will prepare them for success in further study, the workplace and the community Homework Homework serves as an intellectual discipline, establishes study habits, and reinforces work done in school. High achieving students invariably have a positive attitude to homework and its completion, viewing it as an opportunity to consolidate learning and even to share what they are doing with parents. Suitable homework tasks: • Learning new second language vocabulary daily • Daily practice of basic facts and knowledge recall • Reading of texts or reference material • Pre-reading of information for the next lesson • Reinforcement of skills • Reflection on lessons and/or tasks • Preparation/revision for assessments • Practice, rehearsal for performance Busy work (e.g. irrelevant colouring in, borders and decoration) should be avoided. Students and Parents can expect that: • Students in Years 7 and 8 should be learning at home for about 45 minutes each weeknight • Students in Years 9 and 10 can expect to manage one hour or up to ninety minutes each evening • There may be assignments set over a period of time. These will be worked on in class with some work expected to be completed at home. Students and parents are advised to watch the deadlines (students will have these and they are also made available to families). Staff can expect that: • Homework will be completed to a high standard and to the deadlines • On occasion, family commitments/circumstances may prevent students from completing homework (please contact the teacher concerned) • Parents will let the form teacher know if homework is taking much longer than the expected time so that a solution can be found