Rewards

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.

The system was tested in the last 5 weeks of the academic year 2022/23. Over the course of this 2023/24 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 2024/25 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.

Rewards Booklet

Year groups will be given specific times where the shop is open to them.

• Year 11 – Monday
• Year 10 – Tuesday
• Year 9 – Wednesday
• Year 8 – Thursday
• Year 7 – Friday

Below are the consistent items that have come out of asking staff and students what our rewards stop should provide.

• Pencil/Rubber – 65pts
• Black Pen – 70pts
• Red Pen – 70pts
• Ruler (15cm) – 75pts
• Ruler (30cm) – 85pts
• Clear plastic pencil case – 200pts
• Novelty Rubber – 200pts
• Mon-Thur single day use queue jump – 250pts
• Fidget Toy – 260pts
• Friday Lunch queue jump – 280pts
• Confectionery Item – 290pts
• Novelty Pencil Case – 300pts
• Table Tennis Bat – 500pts
• Book Token (Vending Machine) – 1,500pts
• Scientific Calculator – 1,700pts
• Football or Basketball – 1,800pts

The QEGS rewards shop is located in the Level 3 entrance to the teaching block.