Student Engagement

The school monitors academic progress and recognizes student achievements through a merit system.

Grade-Level Expectations

Homework at Excelsior Academic College is a collaborative effort between home and school, fostering a love for reading and storytelling. From Grade 2 to 12, assignments become increasingly important, with parents ensuring timely completion.

Academic Progress

This promotes healthy competition and rewards diligence, enhancing student motivation and accountability.

Joint activity

Promoting Student Accountability

Homework is a joint activity that involves home and school. Involvement in your child’s work can help both to interrelate home and school interests and activities.

• Pre-Primary students are to revise the work that is done during the day in class and are also given projects that they do with their parents. Parents are asked to take time to read and tell stories, play and talk to their child about their day.
• In Grade 1, a small amount of homework and projects will be given.
• Homework for Grade 2 to 12 is very important, and parents are required to make sure that it is completed to the best of the ability of the student, is handed in on time and that adequate time has been spent on it.

Parental participation

It is recommended that parents participate in the following ways.
• Make a commitment to listen to your child tell you about the school day.
• Provide a place and a regular time for your child to study without distraction.
• Encourage your child to ask questions about their assignments.
• Check that all assignments are completed. Please do not correct your child’s work as this may give a false impression to the teachers as to the understanding of an assignment.
• Check on the progress of long-term assignments.
• Help your child to organise the management of homework.
• Ask your child how they did in an assignment.
• Develop a system where your child sets aside a specific place for completed homework so that it is returned to school on time.
• Encourage your child to take responsibility for their homework but show that you are there to provide support.
• Contact class or subject teachers if there is a problem with the amount of homework given, if it does not follow the homework timetables or if too much time is needed to complete an assignment.

If you need to employ someone to overview your child’s homework please ensure that:
• They have an understanding of the homework set.
• They give support, encouragement, and explanation but do not complete or correct the homework for the child as this gives a false impression to the teacher setting the work.

Open Communication

Guide for daily homework

Pre-Primary

¼ hour

Grade 1

¼ to ½ hour

Grade 2 and 3

½ hour

Grade 4

½ to 1 hour

Grade 5 to 7

1 to 1 ½hour

Grade 8

1½ to 2 hours

Grade 9 to 10

2 to 2 ½hours

Grade 11 to 12

3 to 3 ½ hours

Love for Reading

Additional Notes

It is essential that all students read or are read to every day for relaxation and pleasure.

Monitoring Academic Process

We are actively involved with each and every student that comes through our school and college. Daily communication helps us stay on top of each students’ process. If you are looking for a college that will be there for you throughout your studies and assisting and supporting you with all your needs for your chosen course, Excelsior Academic College is definitely the place for you.

Merits

The school has a system of merits intended to promote healthy competition and to track the progress and aptitudes of individual students. Merits are earned by students for completing homework assignments well and on time, by helping others, and by achieving a high standard for classwork according to their ability. For outstanding work or deeds, double merits are given. Each week the student receiving the most merit points per class during the week wins a merit badge, which they are entitled to wear through the following week.