Developing resilience Personalised Rewards School Name: Redwood Park Academy, Portsmouth Using the school points system to improve resilience and motivation to develop skills for learning within the classroom; Ensuring that targets set are personalised to the pupil. Our school School type Number of pupils % Disadvantaged pupils £ Pupil premium SEN(D) 134 71% £82,880 Our school challenges In school barriers: Poor communication skills; language delays or difficulties that can lead to social communication difficulties and issues with reading and writing. Special educational needs; pupils need to develop resilience and independence to prepare them for their future lives. Out of school barriers: - Socio-economic disadvantages which in some cases lead to poor attendance, health, safety and well being. How we did it Met with target pupils to discuss their likes / dislikes and to gauge their attitudes to learning. Also to identify behaviour and learning target(s) that they wanted to focus on to receive reward points for (linked to the whole school reward point system) TA’s and pupils worked together to create personalised reward cards that allowed pupils to see their targets and understand what they were working to receive reward points for. Pupils reward points and targets were reviewed weekly through TA led meetings. Pupils were congratulated as per the whole school policy of certificates for receiving a certain amount of credits but also daily with a period of reward time that they had chosen (from a teacher identified list!) Our impact Pupils motivation and resilience to learn increased. Pupils understanding of why they were receiving reward points increased as they could link it directly to their own behaviour for learning in the classroom. Attitudes to learning improved and this was evidence in the final pupil matrix evaluations and pupil questionnaires. 85% of target group met their English targets and 46% of these pupils exceeded their English target. 76% of target group met their Maths target and 48% of these pupils exceeded their target. Attendance of the target group improved based on the previous years attendance in the same time frame. Incidents of reports of behaviour reduced. What we learnt The pupils had to be involved earlier in the design of their rewards card and targets; this increased engagement greatly when changed. The targets had to be flexible; they didn’t need to stay the same for the whole project. Reward time daily was key; pupils needed instant feedback that they were being successful as well as building up a bank of reward points to gain their certificates in whole school assemblies. This was a quick and easy method that engaged pupils and can be easily implemented across the whole school. Want to find out more? Find out what else the team at Redwood are doing to improve outcomes for all their pupils: contact luci.Johnson@redwoodparkacademy.info Speak to the Challenge the Gap Programme Coordinator, Roisin Killick contact roisin.killick@challengepartners.org