Hall Grove Award Scheme

The Hall Grove Award Scheme is open to all children in the Upper School (Years 6-8). The areas involved are Adventure, Leadership and Service.

Adventure: This is the physical element in the award scheme. It should involve engaging in an activity outside the usual school Games and PE programme.

Leadership: This means taking a lead by initiating an activity which benefits oneself or others. Leadership is not telling others what to do; rather, it is going ahead and encouraging others to follow.

Service: Helping others within the school and in the wider community.

Examples of actvities that may count towards an award include: bird watching, life saving awards, growing vegetables, judo, stamp collecting, chess, cooking at home, riding, road safety on bicycles, bicycle maintenance, camping, archaeology, sewing, knitting, helping a grandparent, climbing, overcoming a fear (heights, dark), studying healthy eating and exercise, caring for animals, public speaking, train spotting and others.

All children in Years 6 to 8 will participate in the Hall Grove Award Scheme, with the aim being to achieve the following each year:

• Hall Grove Bronze Award
• Hall Grove Silver Award
• Hall Grove Gold Award

These awards can be achieved with 'merit' or 'distinction'.

How Gold, Silver and Bronze awards are gained:

• Pupils have to collect and record evidence, on their termly sheets, of how they have met the criteria in the three areas of Leadership, Service and Adventure.
• These are monitored by the Award Scheme Coordinator who awards points that are posted on the score charts and displayed on the Hall Grove Award Scheme board.
• Bronze Award requires ten points in each of the three areas of Leadership, Adventure and Service.
• Silver Award requires six points in each of the three areas of Leadership, Adventure and Service but of course these are harder and can only be awarded once the Bronze award is completed.
• Gold Award requires three points in each of the three areas of Leadership, Adventure and Service but these are even harder and depend largely on the pupil excelling outside school as well as putting a good file of evidence together.
• On completion of one of the Awards the pupil receives a certificate signed by the Headmaster and the Hall Grove Award Scheme Coordinator.