At QEGS we want to reward students for meeting our standards, our core values and focus on the positive behaviours rather than the negatives displayed by the minority. Narrating and celebrating positive behaviour has a real pull effect on raising everyone’s behaviour and improving the culture of the school.
While behaving well and achieving should feel and be enough in itself, we acknowledge students like to be recognised not only with verbal praise but with things they can achieve and potentially treats they can obtain over time.
Building in a platform where points can be exchanged for real world items is intended to allow good students to gain rewards as well as praise. Our reward system will grow and change with the inputs of students and staff and we believe there are even some financial awareness lessons to be learnt along the way.
Over the course of this 2024/25 academic year, we embedded the system by allowing pupils to buy items through the QEGS reward shop and pupils across year groups engaged well. We still aim to shape and review this as the system runs each half term across 2025/26 and welcome suggestions from our parents and pupil cohorts. Most recently we have introduced a book vending machine when points can be exchanged for a token and a book then selected on the day.
Year groups will be given specific times where the shop is open to them.
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Year 11 – Monday
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Year 10 – Tuesday
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Year 9 – Wednesday
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Year 8 – Thursday
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Year 7 – Friday
Below are the consistent items that have come out of asking staff and students what our rewards stop should provide.
- Item Value
Pencil/Rubber – 65pts
Black Pen – 70pts
Red Pen – 70pts
Ruler (15cm) – 75pts
Ruler (30cm) – 85pts
Highlighter – 85pts
Clear plastic pencil case – 500pts
Novelty Rubber – 500pts
Novelty Erasable Gel Pens – 500pts
Aztecs Pen – 500pts
Mon-Thur single day use queue jump – 560pts
Fidget Toy – 570pts
Friday Lunch queue jump – 590pts
Resin Animal Figures – 600pts
Confectionery Item – 1,000pts
Table Tennis Bat – 1,000pts
Needoh Cubes – 2,000pts
Book Token (Vending Machine) – 2,000pts
Scientific Calculator – 3,400pts
£5 Gift Voucher – 4,000pts
(The Olde Sweet Shop, Betty’s, The Bike Barn or Handmade Design)
Ashbourne Aztecs Mug or Water bottle – 4,000pts
Umbrella – 4,000pts
Ashbourne Aztecs Baseball Cap – 8,000pts
Shrovetide Hoodie – Coming soon
The QEGS rewards shop is located in the Level 3 entrance to the teaching block.
