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The thing I find hardest about setting homework is there's such a massive range from the highest
to the lowest. It's appealing to ever ability with homework,
that's the challenge.
For the younger children I find setting a homework that is challenging but is also engaging
is particularly important.
I find that younger children do find it quite boring when I do send them maybe with a sheet
or something home, because once they've done the sheet they've got nothing else to do,
there's no extension there.
It's easy when you set a homework for it to be quite a simple straightforward task that
just repeats what you've done in the lesson, but is that really what you want homework
to do?
You want homework that maybe practices, repeats some things, but then takes them to their
next step of learning.
when I've tried to set homework in the past, it is very much an arduous task it takes quite
a while to find something that is suitable for one group of children, and then something
that is suitable for another group of children it just takes an awful long time, what we
need is something that you can access similar objectives that are achievable for different
ability groups.
And sometimes you need ideas for what to do, especially for those higher level ones, because,
again, going back to division if you've done lots of division they don't need to keep doing
it, and for ideas of worded problems, or after that we need ideas for that as well, especially
I think for the higher ability.
Well you end up spending hours trawling the internet looking for worksheets and I don't
really like setting worksheets any way.
You spend most of your time planning your lessons the rest of the time marking those
lessons, and then you've got the homework on top of them. It all just becomes too much,
and finding something that is manageable, I think would be very, very helpful.