Halswell School Values and Rewards

Halswell School has developed a school-wide system to acknowledge students who are modelling our new values in the playground. Through the children's time at Halswell School (years 0 - 8), they will have the opportunity to earn five significant certificates, one for each value. When a child has gained all of these certificates they will receive a special award recognising this achievement. It may take several years for a child to gain all five certificates and it will be recorded on Hero.

For the start of term one, the students have been learning about the value Whanaungatanga:

In Ahuriri, we have been discussing and writing about ways in which we can grow connections and relationships with each other. The children have some wonderful ideas about smiling and saying hello to new children, including others in play and sitting next to people who are on their own. We have a wonderful new Buddy Bench you may have seen it in the playground? We have been demonstrating this and talking about examples of Whanaungatanga that we see the children modelling.

In our Whole School Assembly today we awarded four value certificates for Whanaungatanga.

The whole school gets given whanāu cards when teachers observe good behaviour.  These get put into a draw and a child from each colour gets drawn each week.  They can then choose a reward eg. use of the iPad, extra time in the playground, teacher time.  This week Liam, Lucy Gracie and Luca won.  they chose scooter and iPad time.

We do have Ahuriri Certificates that the children receive more regularly and that recognise special efforts in learning, behaviour, sport, and events such as starting school.

If you would like to find out more about the school's values please watch this video that was shared with the community in our first week of this year: