Prep- 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.
Knowledge quizzes
Our home learning strategy focuses on students embedding foundational knowledge into their long-term memory to free up space in their working memory for in class learning. Students will be expected to complete subject quizzes following a daily timetable.
Completion will be tracked by subject teachers and rewards will be issued for students who are meeting deadlines and completing work to a high standard. Sanctions will also be issued to those who do not submit their home learning on time in line with our behaviour for learning policy
Each week KS3 students will be set a home learning quiz which will focus on the key knowledge they need to retain to support their learning in lessons. Students will have a week to complete the quizzes and their teachers will track their completion. All quizzes will be set through their google classrooms.
KS4 will be set work that will support their GCSE's.
If you have any questions about home learning please contact Miss Ledingham (d.ledingham@meridianhigh.london)
Please click on the link to the Home Learning Booklet including details of the different platforms and FAQ's:
Prep packs
Please click on the links below to access our Prep Packs
Term 1 Prep Packs
Term 2 Prep Packs
Term 3 Prep Packs
We offer a prep club that runs on a Tuesday and Thursday afterschool, 3-4pm in the Learning Lab in Summit. All students are welcome to attend.
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:
