Homework aims to:
- help provide a llink between school and home and enable parents to keep in touch with their child's work;
- enable students to consolidate work already taught;
- enable student to prepare for future work;
- develop in students habits of self-directed reading and home study;
- stimulate recreational interests and activities and the creative use of leisure time.
Homework is valuable because it:
- strengthens home-school links;
- allows for practising, extending and consolidating work done in class;
- teaches students how to plan and organise their time;
- extablishes habit of study, concentration and self-discipline which will serve students for the rest of their lives;
- reaffirms the role of parents as partners in educaiton;
- provides parents iwht insights into what is being taught in the classroom and the progress of their children;
- challenges and extends gifted and talented children