Merits and Demerits

Categories for Awarding ‘Merits’

(To help ensure we recognise consistently good effort and behaviour termly prompts will be given.)

Effort

• Consistently good effort
• Exceptional effort (recognising the ability of individual pupils)
• Improved effort

Behaviour

• Consistently very good behaviour
• Improved behaviour

Successful Learners - Class and Homework

• Quality homework
• Consistently completing homework to the best of their ability
• Very good assessment performance
• Improved performance in assessment
• High quality class work
• High quality practical work
• Creative practical work
• Good use of planner
• Accepts responsibility for their own learning
• Consistently acts upon advice for next steps for improvement
• Target Achieved

Effective Contributors

• Highly motivated and participates well in class lessons
• Contributing to a school assembly
• Participating in a whole school citizenship event

Confident Individuals

• Regular participation in a school club
• Participating in a whole school event

Responsible Citizens

• Responsibly fulfilling duties as a member of a school committee
• Behaving responsibly and showing initiative on a school excursion
• Initiating a citizenship event
• Showing consideration for others

Categories for Awarding Demerits

Behaviour

• Arriving late for class (without a reasonable excuse)
• Talking inappropriately in class
• Failing to follow instructions
• Disrupting others in the class
• Inappropriate behaviour towards another pupil
• Misuse of materials or equipment
• Inappropriate use of mobile phone / technology
• Inappropriate use of school network
• Out of class indiscipline
• Eating / chewing gum in class
• Dropping litter
• General poor behaviour

Class and Homework

• Poor quality class work
• Too slow to settle down and begin the work set
• Unwilling to participate fully in group work
• Lack of preparation for assessment
• Poor quality homework
• Failure to hand in homework on time
• Failure to bring necessary equipment / kit

General

• Failure to bring planner
• Planner not signed
• Failure to follow school dress code