Pittville Press: Good behaviour gets rewarded
A NEW reward scheme has been put in place at Pittville School, where students will receive a virtual currency – Vivo points – for pieces of outstanding work and behaviour.
These points, roughly equal to 1p each, can be exchanged in the vShop for anything from mobile phone vouchers, Frisbees and stationery, to mini fridges and keyboards.
The scheme replaces the old house point system, though there are differing views in the school as to its merits.
"I think it's a really good idea," said Caroline Mubayiwa, a Year 7 student. "It gives us even more reason to work hard and do our best in school."
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However Year 10 student Mark Squires had a different point of view.
"I think it's not fair on the older students," he said.
"It will be hard for us to earn enough points to get anything worthwhile. It's different for those in Year 7 who are just starting the school."
Nevertheless, overall the feedback from teachers and students seems to be positive with the students deserving the bigger rewards the Vivo points will offer them.
Comments
by Judas
Sunday, February 03 2013, 9:44AM
“On the face of it, this is a good idea but that is all dependant on the teachers. Let me explain.
Top set classes are generally well behaved where bottom sets are generally less well behaved. When some 'naughty' pupils behave (you know, behaving within expectations), they will get rewarded with Vivo points. When predominantly 'good' students behave well (or as he/she always does) there is a strong danger the good pupil will miss out because they ALWAYS behave. Fair play needs to be adhered to.
In the school my daughters use to go to (they were both top sets), they felt let down as the number of merits they received, and the vast majority of others in their teaching group, were consistently less than the lower ability, disruptive classes. The reason? The lower sets were awarded merits for doing class work and behaving in class. I may be wrong, but my thoughts are minimum expectations are to do class work and behave during lesson time.
I am not familiar with Pittville School and the behaviour of its students but my perception now is that they have a behaviour issue in school otherwise why would pupils get rewarded to behave the way they should (and expected from other schools) in the first place?”