REWARDS
Positive motivation lies at the heart of effective education and our system in school is designed to recognise and celebrate effort, achievement and success at all times.
The Purpose
- To motivate and encourage students.
- To recognise achievement.
- To foster a healthy atmosphere of competition between individuals, tutor groups, year groups and houses
- To promote a culture of achievement and hard work.
- To underpin and promote the characteristics of being a successful learner.
Culture - The House System
Students will be assigned a house on arrival at the college.
Individual Awards
They will earn house points for themselves, but also for their house, to compete against the other houses and to promote positive culture around the campus. Students can earn house points both in class and around the College site. Students will be rewarded in the following ways individually:
House Point - 1 point
These should be rewarded frequently in lessons, to reinforce positive learning behaviours, with staff striving to reward at a 3:1 ratio. They should be rewarded for consistently meeting or exceeding expectations.
Double House Points - 2 points
Double house points should be awarded when students effort or academic risk taking is above average.
Engagement Points - 5 points
Should be awarded for student engagement in school events, fixtures, House Competitions and 100% attendance for the week; An award for contribution to college culture above and beyond what is celebrated within lessons.
Golden Ticket - 10 points
An ‘instant’ reward given on the spot, and exchanged for a queue jump in the canteen queue. For one off awesomeness!
Completed House Culture Card (Years 7&8) - 20 points
Signatures collected based around the cultural focus at that time (currently desired social time behaviours). When completed, Tutor adds this event to Bromcom.
Excellence Award - 20 points
Students nominated for producing consistently exemplary work/consistent high levels of effort through staff adding the event on Bromcom with a description of what has made the work excellent, after gathering the evidence from the student.
House Leader Points - 20 points
Reserved as a reward for leaders to assign to students for winning competitions, or to recognise special contributions to the house through tasks they have completed for house leaders.
Effort Boards - 20 points
Students will earn their place on the college effort board for producing excellent work and thriving in assessments across their subjects.
Head Teachers Award - 50 points
For making an outstanding contribution to the development of college culture, at a school, community, regional or national level. Automatically receive this when achieving 5+ Excellence awards in a half term. These students will have breakfast with the Head of School and Principal towards the end of the half term in recognition of winning the college’s most prestigious award.
Individual Award Certificates
Students receive certificates in assemblies when they hit the following house point thresholds:
Reward Events
½ Termly Celebration ‘STARS’ Breakfast
The top students in each year will be invited via contact home to attend this celebration. They will qualify by consistently displaying our student virtues over the half term. Specifically, they will:
- +Have a ≥95% attendance over the past 6 weeks
- Have one of the highest Positive Behaviour point totals in their year (HP - BP)
Termly Winning House Event
Top students from the winning house, through the same qualifying method as above, will be invited to attend the end of term reward event in the last week of term in the following months:
- December
- April
- July
Yearly Prize Draw
The SDCC STARS Raffle take place once a year, to give all students the opportunity to win a prize to recognise the fantastic effort they have put in over the academic year. In short, the bigger contribution they make towards college culture, the better chance they have of winning a prize in the draw, as they will be awarded more ‘electronic tickets’ in it, as below. There will be prizes awarded in each year group, as agreed each year by the school council and house captains.
All rewards aim to celebrate the students displaying the college virtues, and the student values they have described as being important to students that attend here:
