Really struggling with Homework at the moment. I don't give huge amounts. Seniors get regular activities/pieces of writing, along with weekly vocab tests. Juniors in one of my subjects just get a vocab/grammar test weekly, in the other the get a fortnightly written piece.

Obviously with the learning HW it's harder to tell exactly who's put in the effort and who hasn't but generally I would say the majority have done some work at home. With any actual written homework I usually get less than half back. It's becoming so frustrating. My 5th years are the worst. I never give them anything that would take more than 20 mins, and they always have a few evenings to do it but I still end up with less than half the class handing stuff in.

We don't have any policy on this as a school. I've tried afterschool detentions but it didn't seem to have any impact and I received backlash from year heads and parents. I'm a relatively popular teacher and don't have many behaviour issues but the HW is becoming a real hurdle.

I also struggle to track it myself. I'm can never seem to keep on top of it which leads to confusion about which HWs were missing and from when.

I'd love to know how anybody else keeps on top of it.