New Rewards System: The WIS Credit

West Island School is pleased to announce that the new online WIS Credits system will be launched on Monday, 11 January 2016.  The system will reward students for their exceptional efforts in the areas of CAS (to be known as CAS Credits), as a tutee and Dynasty member (Dynasty Credits) and in subject areas (Faculty Credits).  

Credits will be recorded via our online platform WISDOM; it will be visually clear as to how your child is progressing, and how your child’s Dynasty is faring in comparison to other Dynasties. Celebrations of efforts will take place during tutor time, phase, whole school assemblies and the WIS Awards Ceremony.

As Credits are electronically awarded through Wisdom our students, staff and parents are offered many new advantages. Tutors have the reward data at their fingertips whenever they need it for 1-2-1 discussions.  Pastoral leaders are able to analyse reward data correlated against other school data enhancing their analysis of a student’s performance.  When a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum Credit Award (please click here for detail) is made parents will automatically be notified by a personalised email.

To enhance friendly competition within the WIS the school wide performance of Credit awards will be entirely transparent to all Wisdom users. Anyone logging into Wisdom will see on the front page a bar chart showing current credits awarded by Dynasty, this chart is live and will change automatically as further Credits are awarded.  Wisdom users will also be able to go to a specific Credit data page to see the Credit award data filtered by gender, year, strand and ATL Skill (Communication, Research, Social, Thinking and Self Management).

Parents are encouraged to log into Wisdom with their own unique accounts to view this data.  For more more information on the WIS Rewards System Rationale, please click here.

We want to value the hard work and effort your child puts into making their lives at WIS a great one, and to celebrate this by recognising your child’s drive to achieve the best they can be.  

Finally, your last question, I imagine is: how does my child achieve a credit?  For a general idea of how this is possible per faculty, please click here.