Recognition and Rewards

Implementation:

Recognition opportunities are our way to identify student effort, progress and achievement, and help to motivate others.
Recognition opportunities are mapped against our Curriculum Aims to ensure that we reward and celebrate students for the things that are important to us at Weldon.
- Our WVA values are recognised on a weekly basis by tutors and/or teachers identifying students who they celebrate through communicating directly with home (these students’ names are also included in assembly).
- House Championship and House Team of the Week.
- Team of the Term (the top 15 students across each house and combined across the school) have celebratory meetings with Senior Tutors and SLT, with hot chocolate or ice cream, depending on the time of year!
- Termly celebration. We publish students who have demonstrated our values weekly in the school newsletter and in assemblies. We celebrate on our Facebook page, academic, sporting and personal achievements as well as in end of term assemblies with certificates, badges and through a range of prizes.
- Celebration event – recognition and letter home by House.

We utilise a range of recognition opportunities at Weldon Village Academy:

Verbal Praise (acknowledging students by name and genuinely appreciating their positive contributions)
House Points (Interform and Interhouse Activities)
Postcards (written home via Subject and ‘The Weldon Way’ postcards, recognising outstanding work or contributions in class or around the academy)
Communication Home (telling families how well their child has done via phone calls, e-mails, letters and the WVA Newsletter)