Home Learning
At Meridian High School we believe in powerful knowledge. At the heart of our curriculum design lies substantive and disciplinary knowledge which comes to life through our teaching and learning methods in the classroom. Sticky Knowledge Subject specialist teachers have designed knowledge organisers for every part of their curriculum. We have collated these into year group knowledge books for every child.
Students will bring knowledge books to every lesson as a reference tool for learning and will form the basis of our Home Learning strategy. The term “sticky knowledge” refers to what we can embed in our long-term memory to allow more learning to happen. Our knowledge organisers are the foundational knowledge all students need to remember.
Home Learning with Sparx
At Meridian High School, we use Sparx Maths, Sparx Reader, and Sparx Science to support our students’ learning at Key Stage 3. These engaging online platforms help students practise key skills, deepen understanding, and develop confidence across core subjects.
Home learning is set every Friday, with one week to complete the tasks assigned by teachers. Completion is carefully tracked, and students are rewarded with positive points for their effort and commitment.
To ensure all students stay on track, those who fail to complete their home learning will attend a 60-minute detention, where they will have the opportunity to complete their outstanding tasks with support.
Our aim is to help every student build strong learning habits and make excellent progress both in school and at home.
KS4 will be set work that will support their GCSE's as well as Sparx Maths, Reader and Science.
If you have any questions about home learning please contact Miss Ledingham (d.ledingham@meridianhigh.london)
Knowledge organisers
A knowledge organiser (KO) sets out the important, useful and powerful knowledge on a topic on a single page (Kirby, 2015). With the content demands of new courses, and schools adopting a knowledge-based curriculum, these are becoming increasingly popular in schools at secondary and even primary level.
For students to succeed in a particular area, they must have a foundation of factual knowledge, understand those facts in the context of a conceptual framework and organise knowledge in order to facilitate retrieval and application (Bransford et al., 2000). We can see knowledge organisers as a way to enable this, in a much more systematic way than traditional revision guides and textbooks
EEF Knowledge organisers- what they are and their purpose
Our students will be given their KO at the start of the year. They are expected to bring them into school every day as they will be used in every lesson as an essential tool. Students who forget their KO will be issued with a same day 60 minute detention.
Please click onthe link below to access our knowledge organisers by year group:
