Praise and Rewards
At Rainford High, praising students is one of the key elements, which contributes to positive behaviour for learning and as such is an essential part of our day to day work with students.
We praise and recognise student’s respectfulness, positive choices and hard work by:
1) Engagement House Points
Each lesson the class teacher awards students an effort score from 1-5, where
- 5 represents Above and Beyond Engagement
- 4 represents Excellent Engagement
- 3 represents Good Engagement
- 2 represents Engagement Requires Improvement
- 1 represents Unacceptable Effort
Each half term, the engagement house scores and merit scores are calculated and contribute to the house competitions.
2) E-post cards
Students are awarded E-postcards, which are emailed to both the student and parents, by staff to recognise their positive behaviour for learning and/or contribution to skill.
Each E-postcard issued is equivalent to 5 merits.
Criteria for Merits and E-postcards
- Everyone Succeeds- Academic
- Students making a consistently good effort in a lesson or over a sequence of lessons.
- Students making progress above expectation in a piece of work /activity or project.
Everyone Matters-Community Engagement
- Students supporting activities which impact on the wider community
- Students supporting whole school events
Everyone Helps-Helping others
- Students helping others in any aspect of day to day school life
- Students supporting others positively in their learning, in or beyond the classroom.
Celebrations
- Each year we run the annual rewards evenings
- Each half term students take part in the house competitions
- Students attend rewards assemblies
- Attendance certificates are awarded
- E-postcards are sent
- Personalised rewards are given to students