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School Stickers Shortlisted for “Best use of educational technology”
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We are excited to have been shortlisted as Best use of educational technology for the Education Investor Awards 2010.
You can see more here: http://www.educationinvestor.co.uk/Awards2010/EducationInvestorAwards2010.aspx
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Our Sports Day Research – Picked up by the Daily Mail and The Sun.
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We’ve being doing some research into Sports Day, which we’re excited to say has been picked up by the The Sun and The Daily Mail.
Overall we found Sports Day to be alive and well in UK Schools with 98% of schools having one.
We are, obviously, very interested in rewards. Both the actual rewards and the reward process. 20% of schools only award the winners, 70% award winners and participation, 10% only award participation. The majority of teachers like to reward both winners and participation.
Sports Day policy is a challenge as all Schools have to balance a number of competing goals: They want to help motivate the sports starts of the future (which supports an argument for rewarding winners); they want all pupils to engage in sport and life a healthy lifestyle (which supports participation); and they want to support their school community (which suggests team rewards or competitions). It is a tricky balancing act. The absolute favourite answer was for schools to respond to that challenge with a mixed answer. Rewarding pupils for winning positions, but also rewarding all pupils for participation (with stickers at the event for younger pupils or certificates at the end of the day for older pupils), and ideally run a team event alongside. Those schools with houses passed individual achievement into house points – creating a team motivation.
Every school is unique and the right conclusion differs from community to community but overall the vast majority of teachers consider sports day to be an great part of school life. So the only real losers are the unfortunate 2% (c.500 schools) who don’t have a Sports Day.
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Collingwood Rewards (driven by CarrotRewards.co.uk) in Camberley News
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It is always great to see a school using our CarrotRewards system being appreciated. Camberley News covered Collingwood College’s Reward System. In the photo is Mr John Bunter (mislabelled as me but I’m not so good looking!) giving out their latest prize.
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103 press mentions ! Inc. TES, Mail and Telegraph.
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We’re in TES, Daily Mail, The Telegraph. We’re in papers from The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald to the China Daily. In all 12 national stories, 69 regional stories, 12 general online news media, 3 parent focused publications and 7 international publications!
Pupils register their name with us and we can use that to work out which names have the most, and least, rewards. From that we assume that the most rewards = good and the least = naughty. Hey presto….Santa’s draft naughty or nice list! A fun pre-Christmas story!
CEO, School Stickers.
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We are excited to have mystickers.co.uk mentioned in a full page article in Sec Ed magazine. See page 14 here.
The article is about how Lynn Gladd at Harefield academy has used an integrated rewards system of both positive and negative rewards to motivate her pupils to good behaviour. For positive rewards she uses our stickers and mystickers.co.uk! See below for some quotes:
“We developed a point system which all the students understand intrinsically. Students get positive and negative points for good and had behaviour respectively. At the end of term, the negative are subtracted from the positive, and we reward the highest scoring students with prizes, which could include a trip, cash, or gifts of some sort”.
“Positive points generate rewards – we use a website (www.mystickers.co.uk) for instance, which allows me to reward the children with codes to type into the website and they can redeem prizes – as well as special mentions in class and recognition of their good work”.
“Students also follow their point each week and they know what points they are getting, so it creates a whole school approach to improving behaviour”.
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We are pleased to say that we now do even more recycling. We’ve always been pretty good with recycling our paper, card and toner waste. As you can see from this WRAP case study.
We now recycle all our plastics too! We recycle our PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE. PP and PS. We don’t actually have a lot of plastics waste but that little we do have we wanted to try to make the best of.
Henry.
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We just had a request for sticker sponsorship. A Mum from Cornwall wanted some reward stickers for her daughter for use as a motivational aids when she goes to teach in Tanzania as part of a gap year project.
What a fantastic idea! We’ve been more than happy to provide her with some stickers with our compliments.
We’d love to do more of that. So if you are a pupil in a UK school and have a charitable need for stickers we’d love to hear from you. Please send your proposals directly to me ( henry at schoolstickers.co.uk) and we’ll look at your ideas. 
Lastly, we’ve been promised photographs later this year. I’ll post them here when I get them.
Henry.
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We’re excited that we’re now on the TES resources page ! http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6016717 Henry.
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