The role of Homework in equipping students for the contemporary world through excellence in education for all:

• Homework empowers parents as the first educators of the child by providing a platform to continue, extend and direct learning children are engage with at school.
• Homework is a direct link to the educational partnership between school and the home.
• Homework represents the extensions of learning beyond the classroom, modelling the principles of lifelong learning.
• Provide opportunities for the continued development of a positive attitude towards learning. 

The need for homework to be adaptive to family life, routines and expectations.

• Homework represents a commitment to the learning of each child but can take a number of different forms and across a number of different pursuits
• Homework is only one afternoon activity available to children across the week, all of which contribute to positive life-long learning habits.
• Homework should provide opportunities for choice or scaffolding of tasks to cater for individual learning styles.
• Homework is aimed for students to engage with independently and should not represent a strain to family relationships and wellbeing.
• The home and the school are in direct partnership in the support and promotion of excellence in education for all. 
• Corpus Christi has set down the following recommendations for homework.

Consistent K-6 Core School Expectations

Types of Homework

Each classroom teacher shall determine the type and nature of the homework tasks for their class. The four main types of homework that might be set for students at Corpus Christi K-6 are:

• Practice Homework - providing students with opportunities to apply knowledge; or to review, revise and reinforce newly acquired skills in literacy and numeracy appropriate to grade level. These tasks may include reading, spelling, number sense and multiplication facts. This encompasses the compulsory inclusions of Reading and Maths mentioned previously in this policy.
• Connecting Homework – providing opportunities for students to self-select a homework task which connects with the current learning being undertaken in class. These tasks (often appearing on a matrix) may incorporate learning opportunities involving a variety of learning styles, so that students can select the task/tasks they are motivated to complete.
• Assignment Homework - encouraging students to pursue knowledge and learning individually and imaginatively. These assignments can be from any Key Learning Area eg. Speeches for Talking and Listening; Design and Make tasks from Science; Research presentations for HSIE-- more suited to older years, when marking criteria is explicit, this also prepares the senior students for assignment work in High School.
• Life Skills Homework - providing opportunities to acknowledge the educational value of time spent with family, religious activities, building new friendships, doing chores, learning new skills and in extra-curricular activities so that students see that both home and school value such learning.