Subjects
Homework & Student Planners
Consistent homework is a key standard at Birchfield Independent Girls’ School (BIGS). We set work daily across the majority of subjects to reinforce learning outside the classroom.
Parent & Pupil Guidelines:
- Diaries: Assignments are recorded in homework diaries provided by the school.
- Weekly Sign-off: Parents and staff must sign the diary every week to monitor progress.
- Daily Checks: Please ensure your daughter completes her set homework every day.
- Timetables: A specific homework timetable is issued to every pupil when she joins the school.
The school offers the following subjects:
| KS3 | KS4 | ||||
| Subject | Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 | Year 10 | Year 11 |
| English | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 |
| Maths | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Science | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| ICT | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Business Studies | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| PE | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Citizenship | Citizenship awareness days / presentations | ||||
| History | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Geography | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| MFL: Arabic / Urdu | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Art | 2 | 2 | – | – | – |
| Food & Nutrition | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Textiles | – | – | 2 | – | – |
| Functional Maths | – | 2 | – | – | – |
| Religious Studies | – | – | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Qur’ān | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Nahw (Arabic Grammar) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Ṣarf (Arabic Morphology) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sīrah (Prophetic Biography) | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Ḥadīth (Prophetic Narrations) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Qasas (Stories of the Prophets) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| PSHE | Form Time | Form Time | Form Time | Form Time | Form Time |