Home learning is shown to have a big impact on students’ progress, and helps to prepare them for success once they’ve left school. 

Students who achieve well at GCSE have strong, independent learning habits. We use home learning to promote these habits.

If a student misses the opportunity to practise their learning at home, they may find themselves struggling to keep up. We want to ensure no student falls behind.

We’re not going to pretend that home learning is fun! What we do know, however, is that those students who complete it achieve better grades. That’s why we’re promoting ways to get into good routines around home learning.

1. Split your home learning up into chunks.
2. If you get stuck on a Sparx Maths question, remember that there are help videos to watch.
3. Think about when you work best. Would you prefer to get your home learning done as soon as you get home, or do you want to take a short break before you make a start on it?
4. Use the library at break, lunch or after school if you would prefer to complete your home learning during the school day.

Sparx Learning (the company behind Sparx Maths and Sparx Reader) sends out a weekly email to parents and carers which notifies you of your child’s homework completion. Within this email, there is a link to the Parent Portal.

We encourage you to watch a series of short videos, explaining what Sparx Learning is and how it works:

https://sparxmaths.com/parents/

https://sparxreader.com/parents/

Our student website - https://sites.google.com/coopacademies.co.uk/manc-students/home - contains all the links students need. 

Students log in to Sparx Maths and Sparx Reader using their academy Google username and password.

• If a student is having difficulty accessing any of the online platforms, they should speak to their form tutor.
• Students can visit the library at break, lunch and after school to complete their home learning.
• Have a look at the videos below.
• If parents/carers have any questions regarding home learning, contact your child's Head of Year.