Cranford Community College - REWARDS POLICY 2007/08

Department Rewards

Department Rewards– Departments nominate students each week who get a certificate and get their names displayed on a rewards board. At the end of every half term, the department makes a prize draw using all the names that have been nominated. The winner gets a £15 voucher. .

 

Year Team Rewards

Students can be given shop vouchers or Cranford Currency vouchers for school items such as revision books or items from the school shop. t.

Cranford Shield

The tutor groups compete against each other in a variety of events throughout the year. These events have points that go towards the Cranford Shield scores. At the end of the academic year, the winning tutor group receives the Cranford Shield and receive £200 to spend on themselves in whatever way they wish.

Attendance

Students will receive the following certificates for

98% or above attendance:-

1st Term	Bronze Attendance Certificate
2nd Term	Silver Attendance Certificate
3rd Term	Gold Attendance Certificate

Vouchersare awarded to students with the best attendances in each year group. These vouchers are given out in year team assemblies as well as the end of term assemblies. There will be an end of term prize draw for all students who have 100% attendance to win a £15 voucher.

KEY STAGE 3

Reward Points – incremental rewards system

At Key stage 3 Reward Points are awarded by teachers during lessons.  The following thresholds are used:-

Years 7, 8 and 9

Students collect reward points and will be further rewarded at various totals along the way.

Reward	Reward Points
Tutor letter	x 100 Reward points
Bronze Certificate	x 200 Reward Points
Silver Certificate	x 300 Reward Points
Gold Certificate	x 400 Reward Points
Platinum Certificate + £5.00 GIFT VOUCHER	x 500 Reward Points
Head teacher Certificate + £10.00 GIFT VOUCHER	x 750 Reward Points

 

KEY STAGE 4

Raffle Tickets – Weekly prize draws

We use a raffle ticket system.  Members of staff fill in a colour–coded carbonated raffle ticket and place the top copy in the corresponding year box in the staff room. The bottom copy goes to the PM to be recorded. There is a weekly raffle draw during the year team assembly, made by the SLT / PM and the prize is a £5 voucher of their choice from W H Smith, HMV, JD Sports or River Island. This means that the prize draws are more often and that students who get more vouchers have a better chance of winning. The choice of voucher means that students will hopefully win something that they like and will use.

KEY STAGE 5

Air Miles – Weekly prize draws

Members of staff use vouchers to represent Air Miles. This system is the same as that for Key Stage 4 except that staff can decide between 5, 10 or 15 air miles per voucher. The total number of air miles at the end of each term decides which prize draw a student is entered for. There will be a weekly prize draw during the assemblies where one voucher is drawn out of the box and this student gets the choice of a voucher from one of the local retailers.

 

Good News Notes / Dept Postcards

These will continue to be used throughout the school to praise students more formally.

 

END OF TERM – termly prize draws

The end of term prize draws will be made at some point during the final week.

Every student has the chance of being included in an end of term prize draw where the prizes are much bigger but the winner will be decided by drawing a name out of a hat. The thresholds for Key Stage 3 are calculated per term and are shown here.

There will be 3 draws at the end of each term.

Gold Prize	£100	300+ Rewards
Silver Prize	£50	200-300 Rewards
Bronze Prize	£25	100-200 Rewards

This system allows for students who have a slow start in term 1 but can improve in a subsequent term and qualify for a prize draw in term 2 or 3.

When the draws are made the 3 names are drawn out and then the Gold winner is given the opportunity to choose their prize. Then the silver winner gets 2nd choice and the bronze winner gets the 3rd prize. The 3 prizes could be of equal value and they will be bought after consultation with the students as to what they would like to be able to win.

Key Stage 4 and 5 students are included in these prize draws. In order to qualify for the draws they need to collect the following number of vouchers / air miles

Level	Key Stage 4 - vouchers	Key Stage 5 – air miles
GOLD	50	200
Silver	40	150
Bronze	30	100

Promotion of the Rewards System

There is a Rewards Notice Board on the concourse, updated regularly to include Cranford Shield scores, prizes, KS3 Leading points scorers, KS4 weekly winners, KS5 Air Miles scores.