Butuz Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 Anyone here run any kid of merit / reward system across the whole school? We just use merit stickers in the pupils school planner, but it's very ad hoc per department and are looking to standardise across the whole school all departments. Wondering if anyone has any experience. Cheers Butuz
mb2k01 Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 We do. It's run / managed via the behaviour management part of SIMS. I don't know much more than that, but if you PM me I can put you in touch with the teacher (who also happens to be an IT teacher!) who is coordinating it.
elsiegee40 Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 (edited) At the secondary where I am governor, we are using a variant on SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) called PRIDE More here about SEAL: SEAL strategy for secondary schools Making secondary SEAL work Linking SEAL to improved behaviour Edited March 19, 2009 by elsiegee40
laserblazer Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 Here, the kids earn merits which add up to bronze, silver and gold awards. These can be used to obtain extra breaks and the like and all of the golds go into a lucky dip each month. Kids have to have so many golds if they want to go on trips. It seems to work with the slight to moderately naughty, who don't want to miss out. The really naughty know they are never going to get there so don't bother.
mb2k01 Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 In my place we're conducting a survey with pupils thoughts on it (as it's reasonably new to us) At the moment it's looking like the general feeling is that the system benefits the ones who are normally disruptive! (The thinking being that teachers don't always award merits to the ones that work well constantly as they'd be doing it every lesson, and only issue merrits to the pupils who are usually less well behaved etc)
Sylv3r Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 We will look to start using the achievements section on SIMS in the near future with the webpart available from the kraal :: website design, sharepoint design, ICT education
TwoZeroAlpha Posted March 19, 2009 Posted March 19, 2009 Kids here get a housepoint for being outstanding, but lose 2 HPs for getting an asterisk for being bad. There's also "Golden points" for when a class has been very good but no one individual has shone. Worth +5HPs to class total. Certificates are awarded at 50,75 and 100HPs I think. 100HPs = £5/10 book/cinema voucher. Seems to work well enough, easier to lose them than to gain them. Such is life. Oh and I think 3 asterisks in a week = detention at lunchtime.
JJimson Posted May 9, 2009 Posted May 9, 2009 We use a system called Marvin from onlinschooltools Marvin - Free online merit system Its a lot easier to use than sims and the students have a screen showing how many merits they have and who gave them etc. Not rocket science but does the job and free!
FN-GM Posted May 9, 2009 Posted May 9, 2009 no need to snap it was a suggestion, some schools do use it.
p858snake Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 (edited) Yes, but not all schools use Moodle! No need to snap, not all schools use SIMS but it is still getting recommended no differntly than Moodle. Edited May 10, 2009 by p858snake 1
JJimson Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 (edited) Sorry. Wish we did, better than our VLE I think! Edited May 10, 2009 by JJimson
EduTech Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 Yeah here the kids have the merit area in the back of their planner, and if they do a good peice of work they get a merit, at the end of each term the person with the most merits (1st, 2nd and 3rd) in each year gets a prize of some sort. This is also supposed to be recorded in the behaviour managment area in SIMS but for some reason the staff dont ever fill it in. (as of september, i think the SMT are going to force the fact). We do have a number of students who like to forge the staff signitures so they get more James.
Sylv3r Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 Yeah here the kids have the merit area in the back of their planner, and if they do a good peice of work they get a merit, at the end of each term the person with the most merits (1st, 2nd and 3rd) in each year gets a prize of some sort. This is also supposed to be recorded in the behaviour managment area in SIMS but for some reason the staff dont ever fill it in. (as of september, i think the SMT are going to force the fact). We do have a number of students who like to forge the staff signitures so they get more James. We have something similar here but with department ink stamps. They quite often go missing and students stamp their own / friends books.
FN-GM Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 We have something similar here but with department ink stamps. They quite often go missing and students stamp their own / friends books. Same here, there is a black market going of merit stampers
LukeC Posted May 10, 2009 Posted May 10, 2009 we are currently with bromcom and they offer a module called ebehaviour, this allows you to record the child behaviour good or bad, you can defien what the get tehir merits for and how much they are worth. I have also used pars and this did a similar thing
Comet_63 Posted June 3, 2009 Posted June 3, 2009 Interesting ideas but does anyone know if or how SIMS can be used to set up a "reward shop"? Seems silly to have to buy into other software to monitor rewards system when SIMS has a behaviour module?
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