Case Studies

Case study - Chilworth House School

Chilworth House School is a co-educational, independent special day school, providing high quality education for children between the ages of 5 and 14, which is based in Oxfordshire. We customised their rewards system to separate points into two categories: behaviour points and work points. They wanted each teacher to be able to award between 0 and 3 points each lesson and be able to look back on the amount of points received in each category throughout the day, as well as the weekly total. One of their requests was for the system to play a sound each time points were awarded, which it now does.

awarding points at Chilworth House School

Case study - Stoke High School

At Stoke High School, teachers wanted to continue recording achievements on SIMS. We provided them with a reward system that allowed teachers to continue doing this. Students each have their own login and can see the achievements recorded on SIMS as well as a list of rewards chosen by the school. This has improved communication with parents as students can now share their achievements at home. The senior leadership team can also run various reports such as points awarded by department.

Case study - Felixstowe Academy

Felixstowe Academy in Suffolk is a comprehensive and inclusive community school for students between the ages of 11 and 18. Felixstowe Academy have recently expanded the use of their rewards system to the whole school, including sixth form. Staff can set rewards tailored to each year group and each student can change style of their personal homepage to match their taste in colours, imagery and fonts. Staff can award between 1 and 5 points at a time and they each have a weekly points budget tailored to their teaching load. Staff can choose from a list of pre-set reasons for awarding points, which are decided by the school's leadership team, or staff can enter their own reasons.

Rewards system at Felixstowe Academy

Case study - Delce Junior School

Delce Junior School in Kent is a community school catering for children between the ages of 7 and 11. Staff at Delce Junior School moved from a system where children collected counters in jars to an electronic system where children are given points vouchers, which they scan with barcode readers. Quick and easy to use for children and teachers while allowing parents to see what their children are achieving in school by signing into our website.

Delce Junior School Points Top-up

Case study - Alcester Academy

Alcester Academy in Warwickshire caters for students between the ages of 11 and 16. Staff at Alcester academy decided in advance that they wanted fixed reasons for awarding points and assigned a set points value to each reason. This encourages staff to award students fairly and consistently. Categorizing reasons also allows them to be quantified, which allows the senior leadership team run reports to find out the top reasons for awarding points.

Rewards system at Alcester Academy

Staff Comments

"This looks really good. I'm sure the students and staff will enjoy the new system."

"Just wanted to say that I've had a look at the page, and it looks fantastic! It must have taken you a lot of time and effort to come up with it and set it up and I'm looking forward to using it."

"I think it is a great system and my class are all really excited about it."

"I am enjoying using your new Rewards system as it is a quick visible way of rewarding the positive behaviour of pupils"

"...colleagues were very impressed and when discussed today, several very complimentary comments were made."

"considerably better than any "commercial" example we have seen"

"You've a lot to be proud of with your program!"

"I wasn't very efficient with the award system last term, but want to utilise the system fully this year as I know it's very effective."

Pupil Comments

"I think the website is better than merits because its so much easier and plus you can go on it at home" - year 7 pupil

"I like this website its better than merits if this is mr bloom thankyou for doing this its really wicked!!!!" - year 7 pupil

"This website is fab and i have 6 points how wicked !!!" - year 7 pupil

"I Likee Thiss Sitee Veryy Muchh xxxxxx Andd Thankss Forr Myy Rewardss xxxxxxxx" - year 7 pupil

"I think this is a really good idea because kids are proberly going to be better behaved and working harder to get more points" - year 10 pupil

"I think this new reward system is a good idea because now it is not our responability to put our merits in our log book it is the teachers responsability to put them on the website but i dont just think it is good for that i just think it is good anyway" - year 7 pupil

"give me some points :)" - year 10 pupil

"...we do like the new system. Thank you.xxxxxxxxxxxx"