Hey guys,
Before I start I wanted to say sorry about not posting yesterday, this laptop I am currently one is the school laptop and, well, sometimes it's fast but sometimes it is incredibly slow.
Anyway, onto my exciting news. Before I give it to you there is some context to tell you about. At my school we have three houses: Kingsgate, Botany and Walpole. I am in Walpole. Also at my school we have a point system: You can get points for being a good student and if you get the highest points out of everyone in your year, that week; then you get a certificate. HOWEVER, the points had no real reward and no incentive, as well, the houses where only used on sports day and we also get house points but they were worthless and we didn't know how to get them.
BUT! There has been a total revamp of the system, everything except the houses have been scrapped. All the points and house points have been replaced with Merit's. You can only get a maximum of 2 per lesson (This is to stop the unfairness of giving out points) and there has to be a good reason for giving the merit. As well as merits, there are also commendations available, these are for exceptional work.
Now I know what you might be thinking: "But these merits and commendations still don't have an incentive." But there is one. Each merit is worth 5p, and a commendation is worth 20p. Now, for each year in their hub/common room, there is a shop with 5 different categories of items to buy: £1, £2, £3, £4 and £5; however, as well, exclusively for the Year 11's £5 and £10 vouchers for different stores are available. You, of course, have to spend time saving up your merits ad commendations to buy something good.
As well as this, a new thing has been put in place. Now at your secondary school or whatever, you might have had something like a house captain or head boy/head girl. Well, it has been put in place that there will be a House Captain for each house, as well, they have a Vice Captain to assist them in being ambassadors for the school. AS WELL AS this there is also a sports captain and a vice-sports captain for each house. They organise competitions between the houses (sporting ones).
So that is the whole revamp process describe, oh and one more thing: the captain's can only be the Year 10' (going on Year 11's, my year).
But that is not where this ends, take a look at this picture:
You see, I had to put my name forward for the position, the list of people where then shortlisted by the current school council, AND then that final list was given to the teachers to decide who they wanted to vote for. they had about 5 votes each, I think.
That's all for now
Thanks For Reading
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