Homework Policy

At Haig Girls’ School, we believe that age-appropriate, manageable, and meaningful homework is beneficial and supports our students' learning.

Objectives of homework: 

• reinforces lessons taught in class and allows students to consolidate their learning, gain additional practice and apply concepts learnt;

• involving reading/research before lessons helps to nurture independent and self-directed learners;  

• allows teachers to monitor students’ understanding and progress so that they can provide timely intervention and feedback;

• provides parents/guardians with information on their child/ward’s progress and opportunities to be involved in her learning. 

The completion of homework also allows our students to take responsibility for their learning and cultivate important study habits and life skills such as time management and self-direction.  

School Term

School Holidays

To give our students time for other pursuits over the weekend, we have not included weekends in the time norms. The completion of homework assigned on Fridays can be spread over the weekend.  

We seek parents/guardians’ understanding if homework time norms are exceeded during the pre-exam period (especially for P6 classes), when practice papers are given.

To coordinate the daily homework load across subjects, every classroom has a homework board which will indicate the homework amount, the approximate time needed and the deadline for each subject. Students will record all assigned homework in the Student Handbook.

Students will place all their homework (e.g. worksheets, exercise books, workbooks, practice papers) for each day in a homework file. Form teachers will provide students with more information pertaining to the homework file. Parents/Guardians need not purchase a new file and are welcome to reuse any existing file that fulfills the criteria of the homework file.  

As part of our school’s efforts to nurture self-directed learners and imbue our students with the school value of ‘Responsibility’, we will remind our students to be self-disciplined completing their homework independently and punctually. However, we do recognize that our students also need support and encouragement from their parents/guardians.  

As our partners-in-education, we seek your support in the following matters: 

• do check your child/ward’s homework file and acknowledge in the Student Handbook that you have taken note of the homework assigned;   

• ensure that your child/ward has a quiet, conducive environment to complete her homework;

• encourage your child/ward to exercise self-discipline and complete her homework within the stipulated timeframe;

• school homework takes precedence over other work assigned by yourself or your child/ward’s tutor, if she has one;

• if your child/ward has difficulty with her homework, do not give her the answers but guide her with questions and indicate on the homework ‘assisted’ so that the teacher knows the areas that your child/ward had difficulty with and can take steps to address it.   

If your child has a more intensive rehearsal or sports practice/competition schedule during a particular period of time, please inform the respective subject teachers about this. While our teachers will be flexible about homework deadlines for these exceptional cases, we encourage our students to manage their time well and seek the co-operation of parents to ensure that your child balances her other commitments with her academic responsibilities.