How We Recognise and Celebrate the Development of Key Competencies and 21st Century Learning Skills in Students and Teachers at Wainuioru School

Students:

🌠  Student of the week (although this isn't always specifically related to the key competencies and           21st century skills). 

🌠  Praise postcards (sent home to families to acknowledge students' personal successes - however           big or small, and at the time that they are noticed). We could probably do with increasing the               frequency of our communications on this front!

🌠  Principal's Award (weekly)

🌠  Wonderful Wainuioruian awards (termly). these are specifically related to consistently students           demonstrate the school values, which are very closely linked to the key competencies

🌠  Mums and daughters/sons breakfast and Dads and sons/daughters breakfast (annually on a                   rotating basis). the students have an opportunity to share their work with their families.

🌠  Pets day and the school duathlon (both annual events) also provide students with the opportunity         to share their learning with their families.

🌠  Sharing assemblies (fortnightly) afford students another opportunity to share their learning with           an audience.

🌠  Other sources of sharing include class Facebook pages, Twitter, Skype sessions with our buddy           classes in the California and Prague

🌠  The school newsletter

Teachers:

Identifying specific examples of how we celebrate our colleagues' success and developing use of 21st century learning skills has proved to be quite challenging. 

Clearly we don't really have a system for this, however it is one that we should definitely focus on addressing. 

How do you celebrate staff success in your school? Please feel free to leave a comment below.