School Life
We believe in encouraging and rewarding effort and achievement. Students earn HEART points which focus on positive behaviours for learning and the development of each and every student’s character.
We believe that by providing students with HEART points, students are encouraged to engage fully with all opportunities available to them. We intend that HEART points motivate students by giving them a greater awareness that their contributions are valued and recognised by the school. They also provide a framework for students to achieve their personal best and to be rewarded for it.
Through our planned curriculum and focus on HEART, we strive to develop 6 character virtues which are in line with our whole school ethos of ‘Enjoy, Enrich, Achieve, Aspire’.
Our Raising Standards Leaders celebrate student success in a number of ways which may include students being nominated for star student of the week, sending postcards home, receiving recognition in our celebration assemblies at the end of each term and by receiving their Notley Achievement Awards for attendance, progress and personal development.
We also run regular reward trips that students are invited to attend in recognition of their hard work each term. Teachers will reward outstanding performances in lessons for engagement with learning and achievement across the curriculum. We also have departmental postcards which a member of staff sends home with a student or sends in the post to parents/carers to inform them of positives achieved in or out of the classroom. There are also opportunities to be nominated as a Subject Ambassador across all year groups for outstanding commitment to a particular subject.
The leadership opportunities available throughout the school are another means of recognising our student’s effort, commitment, and engagement within the school community. We select Prefects and School Council members in each year group. A number of prestigious internal and external awards are also presented throughout the year. The Head teacher commendation is presented to one member of each year group per term. The Bridge Academy Trust community awards are presented to celebrate students’ contribution to the community. The Jack Petchey Awards scheme presents awards for students who have gone above and beyond to achieve.
