Service Awards
GENERAL – SERVICE
SERVICE awards are split into THREE categories:
1) Service to the School
2) Service to Tutoring
3) Service to Sport
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. However, should a pupil qualify for a Blazer at the end of her Grade 11 year, this will be awarded at the first House Day of her Grade 12 year.
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.
FOR MATRICS ONLY: 80% tutoring in any single area for two years will be eligible for a scroll at the final House Day of the year.
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL
Service to the school is rendered in the resource centre, the tuck shop, computer rooms, as part of the technical crew, by photographing school events and for flag-raising duties. Scrolls and silver bars can be for service to one of the five areas.
*Should a girl be unable to attend an assigned session/duty, she is expected to swop the duty ahead of time in order to maintain a 100% duty record.
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – RESOURCE CENTRE
Pupils are eligible to be Resource Centre Monitors from Grade Ten. Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”.
| Duties include: |
1. | Second break duty |
2. | Tidy shelves duty |
3. | Afternoon duty |
4. | Annual clean-up of shelves |
5. | Book/thematic displays |
Award | ||
1. | Scroll | 100%* of all duties 1 to 4 assigned for 1 year. |
2. | Silver Bar | 100%* of all duties assigned for 2 years AND additional service such as regular reviewing and weeding of books; working with grade 8/9 at break, in a program to promote reading; book/thematic displays |
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – ICT MONITORS
Pupils are eligible to be monitors from 3rd term – 3rd term (Gr 10 – 12) i.e full term of service is 2 years. Monitors perform 2 duties per week – either at 2nd break or after school. Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”
| Duties |
1. | General Duty – 2nd break / afternoon (forfeited for late arrival / early departure at discretion of ICT staff member) |
2. | Additional input (at discretion of ICT staff member) eg extra-ordinary cleaning / setting up of hardware; training new monitors |
Award | Criteria |
Scroll | *100% of all duties assigned for a full year |
Silver Bar | *100% of all duties assigned for two years and additional input for one year such as listed above. |
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – 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”
Award | Criteria | |
1. | Scroll | *80% of all duties required for a full year |
2. | Silver Bar | *80% of all duties required for two years and additional service for one year such as Saturday tuckshop duty. |
* As tuckshop duty is a break duty there might be times when a monitor is called to an important meeting at break time and there is no time to swop out a duty. An explanation letter to the teacher in charge is then expected.
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – FIRST AID
Pupils are eligible to be First Aiders from Grade 9. Girls sixteen years and older are required to assist teachers with first aid during school hours. All First Aiders are to do duty at home fixtures.
Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”
Award | Criteria | |
1. | Scroll | *100% of all duties required for a full year (minimum 8 hours) |
2. | Silver Bar | *100% of all duties required for two years (minimum 12 hours) and additional service for one year. |
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – TECHNICAL CREW
Pupils are eligible to be members of TECRU from Grade 8. Scrolls will state: “Service to the School”
| Duties |
1. | Break duty/cakes sales; Carols’ duty |
2. | General assistance at school performances/events such as setting up |
3. | Evening events such as House Plays, musicals etc; All Girls’ Festival |
4. | Duty at sports events such as water polo and Saturday fixtures |
Award | Criteria | |
1. | Scroll | *100% of all duties (1 and 2) required for two years |
2. | Silver Bar | *100% of all duties required for three years and additional service for one year such duties 3 and 4. |
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography Club renders a service to the school by taking photographs of functions and events throughout the year. Should there be an exceptional photographer who demonstrates her ability by excelling in competitions, she will be eligible for a Principal’s Award should this be deemed to be the equivalence of sport representation on a provincial or national level.
| Duties | |||
1. | Train younger girls in photography | |||
2. | Photographs taken at various school events as determined by the teacher and chairman | |||
3. | Assess and chose photographs for the website and magazine | |||
4. | Label photographs and submit to IT person administering the website. | |||
Award | Criteria | |||
1. | Scroll | *100% of all duties (1 and 2) required for two years | ||
2. | Silver Bar | *100% of all duties required for three years and additional service for one year such duties 3 and 4. | ||
SERVICE TO THE SCHOOL – FLAG-RAISING
The Flag-Raising girls render a service to the school by raising and lowering the flag outside the School each day.
Award | Criteria | |
1. | Scroll | *100% of uninterrupted service for two years |
2. | Silver Bar | *100% of uninterrupted service for three years |
SERVICE TO SPORT
The following applies to all sports. Scrolls will state: “Service to sport”
| Service rendered: |
1. | Coaching per session |
2. | Assisting with a match as coach |
3. | Umpiring a game |
4. | Co-ordinating admin duties per league fixture |
5. | Tech Table or scorer |
Award | Points required | |
1. | Scroll | *100% of all assigned duties at tech table or as a scorer for two years. |
2. | Silver Bar | *100% of all assigned duties at tech table or as a scorer for three years and additional service such as coaching or umpiring |
SERVICE TO TUTORING
The following subjects offer tutoring to girls: Mathematics; Science; Accounting; English; 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 areas may be added together. For example, if a girl accumulates 55 points for Maths tutoring, 10 for Accounting and 15 for Science, this girl will then qualify for a tutoring scroll (80 points total).
Individual groups are to keep registers and allocation of points updated. These points will be combined before the relevant House Days.
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 English, isiXhosa and French tutors from Grade 10.
| Criterion | Points |
1. | Attendance – afternoon tutoring session | 1 |
2. | For tutoring during afternoon tutoring session | 1 |
Award | Points required | |
1. | Scroll | 80 |
2. | Silver Bar | 130 |
NOTE: Points are carried over from year to year.
