Service Awards

These are split into THREE categories:
1) Service to the School
2) Service to Tutoring
3) Service to Sport

Service to the school is rendered in the library, the tuck shop and the computer rooms. Scrolls and silver bars can be awarded for service to one of the three areas.

SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL

SERVICE AWARDS – LIBRARY

Pupils are eligible to be librarians from Grade 10. Points are awarded as follows: Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”.

	Criterion			Points
1.	Second break duty			1
2.	Tidy shelves duty			1
3.	Afternoon duty			2
4.	Annual clean-up of shelves			3
5.	Penalty if more than 4 misplaced books on shelf after duty			-¼
6.	Head or Deputy Librarian			3
7.	Displays			4
8.	“Old” books reviewed and reported on (re. Weeding)			6
9.	Non-library book read and recommended			4
10.	Working with Grade 8/9 at break, in a program to promote reading			2-4 per session
11.	Additional help to Mrs Bransby			1 per hour
		Award	Points required
1.		Scroll	100
2.		Silver Bar	150

NOTE: Points are carried over from year to year.

SERVICE AWARDS – ICT MONITORS

Pupils are eligible to be monitors from 3^rdterm – 3^rd term (Gr 10 - 12) i.e full term of service is 2 years.

Monitors perform 2 duties per week – either at 2^nd break or after school.

Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”

Points are awarded as follows:

Criterion

Points

General Duty - 2^nd break / afternoon

(forfeited for late arrival / early departure at discretion of ICT staff member)

Additional input (at discretion of ICT staff member) eg

extra-ordinary cleaning / setting up of hardware

training new monitors

Award	Points required
Scroll	100
Silver Bar	150

(Diligent performance of duties will enable a monitor to accumulate 50 points in a year.)

NOTE: Points are carried over from year to year.

SERVICE AWARDS – TUCKSHOP MONITORS

Pupils are eligible to be Tuck shop Monitors from mid-year Grade 10. Tuck shop Monitors must do duty once a week but for both breaks. Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”

Points are awarded on the following basis:

	Criterion	Points
1.	First Break	1
2.	Second Break	1

	Award	Points required
1.	Scroll	100
2.	Silver Bar	150

NOTE: Points are carried over from year to year.

SERVICE AWARDS – TECHNICAL CREW

Pupils are eligible to be members of TECRU from Grade 8. Points are awarded as follows: Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”

Criterion Points

1. Attendance at training and meetings 1

2. Duties:Break duty/cakes sales 1
Carols’ duty 1

3. Events:House plays (per hour)    3
      Musicals (per hour)          3
   Other evening events (per hour)                2

4. All Girls’ Festival:Home (per hour) 2
Away (per hour) 3

5. General Assistance of school performances/events –i.e. setting up 2

6. Committee members:Chairperson             4
   Deputy Chair          3
   Member             2

7. (For 2013 only) Back awards of points:
1 year service to CATS/drama (discretion and motivation)             15
2 years’ service to CATS/drama (discretion and motivation)          30
3 years’ service to CATS/drama (discretion and motivation)          45

Award Points required

1. Scroll 100

2. Silver Bar 150

NOTE: Points are carried over from year to year.

SERVICE TO TUTORING

The following subjects offer tutoring to girls: Mathematics; Science; Accounting; French and isiXhosa. Points are awarded on the same basis for all subjects, i.e. for attendance and for tutoring. Scrolls will state: “Service to Tutoring”. Although points can be earned in Grade 9, no awards will be made before the girl is in Grade 10. Points from the various subject tutoring re may be added together. For example, if a girl accumulates 65 points for Maths tutoring, 10 for Accounting and 15 for Science, this girl will then qualify for a tutoring scroll (100 points total).

Individual groups are to keep registers and allocation of points updated. These points will be combined before the relevant House Days.

	Criterion			Points
1.	Attendance – afternoon tutoring session			1
2.	For tutoring during afternoon tutoring session			1
		Award	Points required
1.		Scroll	100
2.		Silver Bar	150

NOTE: Points are carried over from year to year.

Pupils can be Mathematics tutors from the Grade 9.

Pupils can be Science tutors from the second half of Grade 10.

Pupils can be Accounting tutors from Grade 11.

Pupils can be isiXhosa and French tutors from Grade 10.

SERVICE TO SPORT

The following applies to all sports. Scrolls will state: “Service to sport”

	Criterion	Points
1.	Coaching per session	2
2.	Assisting with a match as coach	1
3.	Umpiring a game	½
4.	Co-ordinating admin duties per league fixture	1
5.	Tech Table or scorer per hour	½

	Award	Points required
1.	Scroll	100
2.	Silver Bar	150

NOTE: Points are carried over from year to year.

COMBINED SERVICE

NOTE: Once a pupil has been awarded a service to the school scroll in one area (eg library) she will not be awarded a second scroll for another area (eg tuckshop), but it will be recorded that she has earned a second scroll for this area. Once she qualifies for a silver bar in either of the areas, she will be awarded a silver bar. Only once she has qualified for second silver bar for ANOTHER TYPE OF SERVICE (eg tutoring or sport), will she be eligible to be awarded a Blazer, BUT only if the service rendered is deemed to have been exceptional with generosity of spirit AND only if the pupil is in Grade 12.

A Blazer and an Ivy Leaf (re-award of a blazer) is only for exceptional service rendered over two or more service areas (school, tutoring, sport) from any of the above.