Celebrating Success - Achievements
Celebrating success - Achievement Points
At The Castle School, we understand how important it is for students to have their achievements recognised and celebrated. We use our ‘Achievement point’ system to reward students’ positive behaviours, whether that relates to their academic studies, their contribution to school life, or the way that they uphold our school values.
What are achievement points awarded for?
Any member of staff can award achievement points to students. Examples of what achievement points are awarded for include:
- Excellent classwork
- Excellent homework
- Demonstrating one of the school’s values: aspiration, kindness or fairness
- Having 100% attendance for a term
- Having 97% + attendance for a term
- Improved attendance
- Contributing to extra-curricular activities
- Contributing positively to the school community
- Carrying out senior student responsibilities
- Having all purple 'attitudes to learning’ in a report
The number of achievement points awarded for any of these will vary according to the positive impact the student has had.
What happens to achievement points?
Achievement points are recorded for each student on our information system and will be reported to parents and carers.
There are award for students as they accumulate achievement points during an academic year.
100 points earn a ‘Bronze’ award, which is a certificate
200 points earn a ‘Silver’ award. As well as a certificate, the student has our ‘silver’ badge to wear.
300 points earn a ‘Gold’ award, certificate and badge.
400 points earn a ‘Platinum’ award. Students who achieve this level will be invited to meet with Miss Lobbett for lunch and receive their badge and a ‘Castle School pen’.
Additional incentives
Each term (three times a year), we add up all students’ achievement points, and award a prize to the tutor group in each year with the highest number of achievement points.
