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Personal Award - The Star Achievement Awards
The aims of this award system are:
To help children achieve their potential by striving towards set personal targets;
To promote positive attitudes and high standards in behaviour and work;
To encourage all children to be respectful of, and care about needs of others;
To enable adults to acknowledge effort and high standards of work and behaviour.
The system is organised as follows: -
• Each child has a Star Record Sheet, which is kept by the class teacher, in a
special "Star" folder in the classroom.
• Stars are awarded by the teachers for a range of different types of good
behaviour, attitudes and work.
• Support staff can recommend children for Stars by notifying the class teacher.
• Stars are coloured in or stamped and recorded throughout the week on the
Star sheet, with a short explanation of why they were given, and records the
date Stars are awarded. This must be kept up to date. Every term folders are
monitored by Team Leaders/PSHE subject leader. The Headteacher will also
ask to see folders on a regular basis.
• On Friday mornings, each teacher will review the star sheets in the presence of
the whole class. In this way, success will be celebrated as a whole class.
• On the achievement of 10 Stars, children will qualify for a Certificate of
Achievement.
• By Thursday, teachers should notify the Headteacher of those children who
have achieved certificates/badges during that week, so that they can be
presented in front of the school in the Friday school Celebration Assembly.
Once a child has been awarded 30 Stars (3 Certificates), he/she will be eligible
for a badge of achievement.
• A complete Star Sheet (30 Stars) should be included in the child's Personal and
Social Profile, as an ongoing record of achievement. The completed sheet needs
to be signed by the Headteacher.
• Children will be encouraged to value certificates and badges awarded. At their
final assembly at Hornbill, they will be asked to wear their collection of badges
as a record of achievement, and as an inspiration to younger children.
• The "Star Certificate System" is cumulative, and will follow the child's school
life at Hornbill, from FS1 to Year 6. Star sheets will accompany the child when
he/she changes classes at the end of each school year.
• Team leaders and the Head teacher will regularly monitor the system.
The Star Achievement Awards
Star Reward
The Star Achievement Award Scheme is designed to work alongside whatever
reward/sanction system you already have in place in your class. Class teachers do need