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18/03/24

Dive into a world where beauty defines everything. Our Book of the Week is 'Uglies' by Scott Westerfeld, a tale that challenges perceptions and takes you on a journey of self-discovery and rebellion. Uncover the truth behind perfection. 📚✨ pic.twitter.com/SwuYWiSHP4

15/03/24

Step into the world of Oliver! 🎭🌟 Join us for our mesmerizing production on March 20th & 21st. Experience the magic, the music, and the unforgettable journey of a lifetime. Let's bring the story to life together! Don't miss out. pic.twitter.com/ja1dgS8lRM

15/03/24

Great day for year 10 students. Visit to with and thanks to the staff and students making us welcome. Interesting Q&A and debate. pic.twitter.com/YHIkTZKN6r

15/03/24

Step into the world of Oliver! 🎭🌟 Join us for our mesmerizing production on March 20th & 21st. Experience the magic, the music, and the unforgettable journey of a lifetime. Let's bring the story to life together! Don't miss out. pic.twitter.com/ja1dgS8lRM

14/03/24

Thrilled to welcome author Anthony McGowan to our academy! His energetic talks, filled with humor and engaging stories from 'LARK' and 'DOGS OF THE DEADLAND', captivated our students. Memorable experience for all! 📚✨ " pic.twitter.com/OyQh68QaWT

13/03/24

📚✨ Celebrating the magic of World Book Day with a flourish of activities! We were thrilled to host amazing authors, dive into the art of manga drawing, and see everyone's creative costumes. A day where stories came alive and inspiration soared. " pic.twitter.com/0jMeDbHPzA

12/03/24

Big congrats to HAWI Rocks 🎸, our new Sat Music School, for shining at Wimbledon High's Battle of the Bands on Mar 8! Clinching top 3 with the most audience votes, we're beaming with pride! Open to Yr5-9 students, no experience needed. Summer term starts Apr 20. pic.twitter.com/BzM9KXaxpR

12/03/24

Y12History students embarked on a profound journey with the Holocaust Educational Trust, visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau.The experience left an indelible mark, with reflections highlighting its significance: 'A once-in-a-lifetime experience that everyone should witness.'#NeverForget pic.twitter.com/TSUIiSruEx

11/03/24

British Science week: We have a lot going on this week. Refer to our Newsletter for more information https://t.co/oWx4w30sgQ pic.twitter.com/miyEgce6O6

11/03/24

The wait is over! The book fair is here ! Buy amazing books for yourself or as a Christmas gift while earning free books for the library 📚open every day from 3 to 4 pm pic.twitter.com/faP4IuEK9z

11/03/24

Busy days! HAWI is celebrating books and stories through a range of activities across the week! On Tuesday, students learnt to draw their favourite Manga characters. Today was House competition 🏆 And tomorrow… Costume day! 🎭 pic.twitter.com/mMOkKlYzL9

08/03/24

This week some of our Year 10 students travelled to Kings University College London, to attend an exciting widening participation workshop in conjunction with our Kings College School partnership.  Students were treated to a university style lecture on international relations. pic.twitter.com/cCX7du3LZo

08/03/24

Happy World Book Day! We are reading for fun at HAWI ! pic.twitter.com/NHoWJXvyZT

07/03/24

The National Saturday Club gives 13–16-year-olds across the country the opportunity to study subjects they love at their local university, college or cultural institution, for free. To apply and more information follow the link belowhttps://t.co/0WambmLFPp

07/03/24

Sport News and Updates w/c 4th - 15th March⚽️🏐🏑🥇🏆 pic.twitter.com/McEz3NA8Iq

07/03/24

Congratulations to your Year 7 and 8 girls football teams on their impressive victory in the 6-a-side borough and surrounding area tournament! It's clear that they displayed great resilience and determination throughout the competition. pic.twitter.com/krg9XmiMiv

06/03/24

🎉Get involved in our quiz night!🎉 Tickets available on parent pay and at the door (cash/card accepted). pic.twitter.com/LqlFQJ2jA5

06/03/24

Year 12 have attended their first life drawing session at Kings College School this week. A great experience! pic.twitter.com/PWHxdWaQI4

05/03/24

2 days to go until World Book Day! 🎉There are so many exciting ways to celebrate and help us change lives through a love of books & reading. Discover our exciting packs & resources to support your celebrations🥳📚 https://t.co/xAd3D3P9Nz pic.twitter.com/lVCNh4CU3h

05/03/24

Our HAWI6 Students fully emerging themselves in community work. Our students all took part enthusiastically and developed some life skills of threading a needle and sewing and developing their creativity skills. We are really thankful to the work Sustainable Merton do! pic.twitter.com/ve0ffSS9gh

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Rewards

At Harris Academy Wimbledon, we operate a range of rewards systems that work collectively to reinforce the messages of our whole school motto - ‘Make a Difference’  based on our key values of ‘Independence, Integrity, and Resilience’. We believe that rewards play a central role in promoting a culture of success and high standards of participation, positive behaviour for learning, and attainment. The rewards systems at Harris Academy Wimbledon also has a motivational role in helping students understand that outstanding, considerate behaviour, self-awareness and responsibility to self and others is valued.

Rewards are communicated to students in their planners and data is recorded on Bromcom.

  1. Lower School Curriculum Reward System (Year 7 and Year 8)

Students can be recognised and rewarded for their effort in lessons. A subject teacher will award the student and place a stamp in their exercise book. This is worth 1 reward point.  The member of staff will also record this on Bromcom.  When students have collected 5 stamps, they will be awarded a curriculum sticker. Curriculum stickers should be stuck in the student planner and the member of staff should record on Bromcom.

Students will then be rewarded for the number of stickers collected as follows:

 

Year 7

Year 8

5 Stickers

Director of Year 7/8 Reward

Director of Year 7/8 Reward

10 Stickers

Vice Principal Reward

Vice Principal Reward

30 Stickers

Principal’s Breakfast

Principal’s Afternoon Tea

50 Stickers

Reward Trip

Reward Trip

Students will also receive Star badges based on the number of stickers collected.  10 stickers is a bronze star badge, 30 silver, and 50 gold.

  1. Upper School Curriculum Rewards System (Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11)

Curriculum rewards in the Upper School are called ‘Kudos’.  Each subject will award Kudos for effort in a specific piece of work, and a sticker is placed in the student’s exercise book, next to the work.  The teacher should sign the next available box on the Kudos page of the student’s planner.  The specific piece of work can be a written task, a practical task (e.g. Science, Music, PE) or a creative task (e.g. Drama, Music, Art), but it must be a clear piece of learning showing progress.  Receiving a Kudos sticker should be a significant event and should be less frequent than Lower School stamps.  Each Kudos awarded is worth five reward points which will count towards the House League weekly points competition.  Each marking cycle should present at least one opportunity to award Kudos.

Student achieves...

Higher Reward

Subject Kudos (once per marking cycle)

Sticker in student planner

25 Kudos Stickers

Letter home from Director of Upper School and bronze bar for blazer

50 Kudos Stickers

Letter home from Vice Principal and silver bar for blazer

100 Kudos Stickers

Letter home from Principal, gold bar for blazer, and appointment as Academic Champion for the student’s house (whole-school role)

  1. Pastoral Rewards (Lower and Upper School)

Weekly Tutor Awards

Tutors are required to record a weekly Tutor Award to those students who meet all Academy expectations in a week. This award is the equivalent of 5 Reward Points and should only be issued if the student meets all of the following weekly requirements.

  • Planner is graffiti free, in order, and fully signed,
  • All equipment,
  • No detentions,
  • Perfect uniform,
  • 100% attendance,
  • 100% punctuality.

The weekly tutor award will be noted in planners as a stamp and the Directors of Lower School and Upper School will monitor that the Tutor award is being implemented consistently and rigorously.

Attendance Rewards

Criteria

Award

100% Attendance for a half term

Bronze Attendance certificate and 20 reward points from their tutor

100% Attendance for a term

Silver Attendance certificate and 30 reward points from their tutor

100% Attendance for two terms

Gold Attendance certificate, 40 reward points from the Vice Principal, and a Gold Attendance Honours badge

100% Attendance for one academic year

Platinum Attendance certificate, 50 reward points from the Principal and a Platinum Attendance Honours badge presented to them at the annual Honours Evening

Make a Difference Awards

Make a Difference Awards are given to students who consistently demonstrate that they have made a difference to their own lives or the lives of others.  In most circumstances, students can be awarded a ‘Make A Difference’ sticker and postcard sent home in the post. ‘Make a Difference’ stickers and postcards are generally given out at the start and finish of a half term in assembly.

In exceptional circumstances, where students have gone above and beyond the make a difference to the life of the Academy or their own lives, students will be awarded 50 reward points, a Make a Difference Certificate, and receive an honours badge during our Honours Evening.  

  1. The House System

The House system provides opportunities for students to work together in friendly competition, and to collaborate across year groups. Through competition, students have the chance to earn a variety of different rewards.

Weekly HAWI House League competition

Collecting Reward Points (Lower School), Kudos (Upper School) and pastoral awards across both schools will also contribute to earning House points. At the end of each week the Reward Points, Kudos and pastoral award points collected by all students in the same House will be totaled. The winning House will be awarded 7 House points. The House in second place will be awarded 6 House points, third place 5 House points, fourth place 4, fifth 3, sixth 2, and seventh 1 House point. There will be separate competitions for Lower and Upper Schools, and also an overall league.  

Students can also take part in a wide range of different House events from all areas of school life throughout the year. This will also generate points for the HAWI House League.  House events will be overseen by Heads of House and student House Leaders.  The blend of competitions ensures that everyone has the opportunity to represent their House and be rewarded for something that they enjoy or are good at. House events include academic competitions, creative competitions, various inter-house sporting activities, public speaking competitions, and Spelling Bees.

  1. Blazer Badges

As well as their House Badge, a student can also be awarded a number of other badges which are to be worn on the left lapel of the student blazer. Blazer badges are as follows:

Badge

Criteria

Platinum Attendance*

100% attendance for the academic year

Bronze Curriculum Star

10 Stickers

Silver Curriculum Star

30 Stickers

Gold Curriculum Star

50 Stickers

Bronze Kudos Bar

25 Kudos Awards

Silver Kudos Bar

50 Kudos Awards

Gold Kudos Bar

100 Kudos Awards

Subject Attainment Award*

Outstanding attainment in a subject area

Subject Effort award*

Outstanding effort in a subject area

Subject Progress award*

Outstanding progress in a subject area

Enrichment & Extra-Curricular award*

Outstanding contribution to enrichment/EC

House Tutor award*

Outstanding contribution to house tutor group

House Values awards

Awarded each term to recognise house values

Make a Difference award*

Outstanding contribution to school ethos

*to be awarded at Honours Evening.

Harris Wimbledon Honours Evening

Honours Evening is a prestigious event in the school calendar; an opportunity for celebration for all governors, staff, parents and students who have contributed to the success of Academy over the previous year. Our Honours Evening is an occasion when we make time to share student success and show our pride in their achievements, in the knowledge that praise, encouragement and rewards are the catalysts that will motivate them to even greater success in the future. Our Harris Wimbledon Student Leadership team will host the Honours Evening where each year group has a presentation of Curriculum, Pastoral and Extra-Curricular awards followed by Attendance awards, the Team Award and Make A Difference awards.