We thought that we would give you a little insight in to our class reward system!
As a class, we decided that being rewarded for effort, manners and kindness was a good idea, so we came up with this…
Everyone was given 50p at the start of the term and throughout the term we try to earn as much money as possible. We made our own class currency using gold and silver paper and cut the coins into 
relevant shapes. As a class, we created a P7 shopping list which includes items like: Buy the comfy chair for the day, sit next to a friend, a brain break and many more. We find that we are more motivated to earn these rewards because we picked them ourselves.
Miss Gunning is extremely impressed with the overall effort of the class, some people are real savers and have managed to save over £10! The aim of this system, as well as praising pupils, is for pupils to stay out of debt. If someone breaks a class rule or does not follow an instruction, they will be asked to pay a fine back into the class bank. If pupils end up with a negative bank balance, they will get a phonecall home and parents will be notified as to why money has been lost. Luckily pupils are so eager to impress that we have not had many phonecalls home!
Here is a photo of the shopping list that we made 😀
We also have a star of the week and this is selected by Miss Gunning every Friday. She bases her choice on the actions and effort made by pupils that week. This week our ‘Star Pupil’ is Glen! He said that he wasn’t expecting to get the award but is pleased that he got it. His certificate is stuck onto our door for everyone to see and he has worn the star medal all week in class.
We also have group points and we earn these if our table is working hard as a team and if we keep it tidy. ‘Team Deadsec’ are winning so far with a score of 1140 points but this could all change before Friday. The winning table get to keep the table trophy and they get a prize from the prize box. P7 are very competitive!
kick started this by selecting the poem ‘Willie Wastle’ by Robert Burns. Some of us will be selected to recite this poem at the Burns Supper organised for schools in our cluster. Everyone in our class knows how important it is to recite the poem at home as part of our homework in order to learn it. We had fun in class today learning the first verse and we all managed to present it to the rest of the class without looking at our sheet. Everyone thought that Oliver was brilliant at including expression and entertaining the class, he even gave Mr Hardy a preview of his rendition!
