Homework Policy Parent Letter
A letter to parents explaining the school's homework policy including expectations by year group, time allocations, how to support at home, and who to contact with concerns.
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Greenwood International School HOMEWORK POLICY Effective Date: 2026-09-01 Dear James Thompson, At Greenwood International School, we believe homework plays an important role in reinforcing classroom learning and developing independent study habits. This letter outlines our homework expectations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EXPECTATIONS BY YEAR GROUP Year 7–8: 30–60 minutes per day, 3–4 tasks per week Year 9–10: 60–90 minutes per day, 4–5 tasks per week Year 11: 90–120 minutes per day, focused exam revision All year groups: • Reading: minimum 20 minutes per day • Spellings/vocabulary: weekly lists issued every Monday ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT • Provide a quiet, well-lit space for homework • Set a regular homework routine each evening • Check ClassCharts/Google Classroom for pending tasks • Encourage reading by discussing books together • Contact the school if homework is causing undue stress ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MISSED HOMEWORK PROCEDURE If homework is not submitted: 1. Student receives a reminder from the teacher 2. Work must be completed within 48 hours 3. Repeated non-completion results in a detention 4. Persistent issues are referred to the Head of Year We understand that circumstances vary. Please contact us if there are barriers to completing homework. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you have any questions about this policy, please contact the school office. Yours sincerely, Dr. Robert Williams Principal Greenwood International School
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Explains homework expectations, time commitments and how parents can support, tying the policy to what families actually see each week.
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How to Use This Template
Enter Effective Date and summarize the rules in Policy Summary for parents who will read nothing else. Complete Year Group Expectations with real quantities — minutes per evening, frequency per subject — because vague policies generate complaints.
Explain How Parents Can Support in practical terms and set Missed Homework Procedure with a clear escalation path. Sign with Principal Name, send before the term the policy starts, and ask form tutors to reference the same wording so home and school speak with one voice.
When to Use This Template
Rolling out a new policy
Draft the expectations and consequences, set an effective date, and send the same formatted document to staff and parents so nobody is working from an older version.
Annual policy review
Pull the last version, update the review date and any changed wording, and reissue with a visible revision trail.
Collecting staff acknowledgment
Issue the policy with a signature or acknowledgment section so every member of staff confirms they have read and understood the current version before the effective date.
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