Brettow Award

Do the awards restart each academic year? Or are they collected over the 5 years?

There are a total of 45 tasks to complete over the 5 years. The passport belongs to the student for the 5 year duration. Students should aim to complete 9 tasks per year (9 x 5 = 45). The number of tasks completed per academic year add up to the total awarded in a year for the calculation for the reward trip (9 needed). So if a student completes 11 tasks in one year, they must start again to accrue 9 the following year. Tasks are complete and signed off in the passport, but task numbers don’t carry over to the next academic year.

Students claim things keep changing and have left them feeling confused about how it works? Do all children receive their passports?

The only thing that has changed regarding Brettow, is the way in which students submit their work. Instead of students waiting for a specific date in the term to submit work via the Head of Year, we have made it easier for students to submit work by providing one drop off box in the library. Students can, at any time, submit their work (passport, evaluation slip and evidence in plastic folder provided), and this will be returned to their tutor within a week. As such, students will need to be more responsible with their Brettow folders and remove them from the tutor room when required. This was communicated to all students and tutors via an assembly, and repeatedly in the tutor program.  

My child has attended the after-school badminton club previously when it was running, so would this count?

Any extra-curricular activities can be backdated as long as they are within a reasonable timeframe (during the time that the student is attending Crown Hills). The student needs to get a time log completed (create their own or collect one from the library), add up the dates and get them signed by the teacher that delivered the activity. Failing that, the tutor could request a register from the data manager as the students' attendance will be recorded on BromCom. The student must also write a brief summary/statement of what they did. Of course, Badminton comes under Health & Wellbeing, so you could use this as a different ‘exercise’ task (Unit 2 task 1).

My child conducted a 24-hour famine to raise money for Gaza could this count?

Amazing. This would be considered ‘volunteering’, so Unit 1 task 3. Do you have any evidence to support this, such as a photo, or a screenshot of the money raised?

Evidencing seems to be a sticking point for them. How can we help overcome this?

If the evidence is clear to ‘see’ and therefore to ‘submit’ (a visual document, photo, certificate, letter, time log), then this is easy. They need to submit this ‘evidence’ along with a small evidence/evaluation slip (the tear-off ones in the Brettow Passport), and of course, the passport, all in a plastic folder. This way, the team that goes through the folders can see exactly what the student did, and which task they are submitting evidence for, and can award the stickers as such. If the evidence is more difficult to ‘visualise’, i.e. a 24-hour famine, but you forgot to take photos and have no way of proving you did this, then a more detailed evaluation form can be completed and signed here Normally, however, it is pretty straight forward to gather evidence. If students complete the SSAT or DofE, they have to have evidence of what they have done. Brettow follows the same process. When SSAT are moderating our students' work for the Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards, they will expect to ‘see’ the ‘evidence’.

My child has done open evenings and options evening for school. Does this count?

Open Evenings – the student would have received a certificate which can be uploaded as evidence. Option evening attendance – you would have received a MyChildAtSchool confirmation of booking and picked up some leaflets as evidence. Failing that, a teacher would have remembered you attending and they can sign a slip to prove this.

Is there a set date they have to submit the achievements by each year?

Yes – the cut-off points are there to collate the task numbers in readiness for the Termly Success Assemblies. The next cut-off point is 16^th June.