Rewards and Sanctions

Ashby School aims to encourage and celebrate the success of students in all areas of school life, and to ensure that personal commitment and achievement is acknowledged, recorded and rewarded. 

We recognise the importance of praise and reward and seek to promote and reinforce our expectations of students. 

We strive to ensure that students of all abilities in all year groups can benefit from our rewards processes and monitor and evaluate this to ensure consistent application of the policy across faculties, year groups and from teacher to teacher. 

At Ashby School, we use a variety of methods to reward our students. Character points form the backbone of our rewards system and are issued for students showing respect, accepting responsibility and building their resilience.

Students who fall short of our behavioural expectations are given negative points. Students with negative points face a range of sanctions which include a verbal warning, detention during break time or after school for 30 minutes, a parental meeting and inclusion.

Parents are informed of serious breaches of the rules and of the appropriate disciplinary actions taken. Parents are responsible for getting their child home if they are placed in an after school detention.

All points (positive and negative) are recorded electronically on Arbor (the school's management information system).

Students' positive efforts and achievements are celebrated at the annual awards evening which is a major event in the school calendar.