Investors in Pupils

At Ling Bob we follow the Investors in Pupils program. This allows our children to develop an understanding of how their school runs and how every member of the community contributes to school life.

To learn more about Investors in Pupils please see the video below:

Investors in Pupils is split into 5 areas, these are represented on the Ling Bob hand:

New People

At the start of the year each class creates an induction booklet for new pupils. This booklet has information about each child in the class, the uniform policy, the class rules and any other information that might be useful to someone starting at our school.
New pupils are always warmly welcomed at Ling Bob and we pride ourselves in how hard our children and staff work to help them settle in.

Learning

In the weekly achievement assembly a child from each class is awarded from the achievement book, children receive a head teachers award as well as their teacher sharing the reason for their achievement.
Each child in school has a Pupil Profile where they track their targets. The children’s target include reaching the school attendance target of 96%, arriving to school late 0 times, behaving in the ling bob way, wearing their PE for every PE lesson, scoring an average of 8 out of 10 on spelling tests and achieving their personalised reading, writing and maths targets. For each target a child earns they are rewarded with time at Blingo at the end of each half term and term. Blingo includes playing games of bingo, party games, tasty treats, watching a film and more.
Below is an example of a Key Stage 1 Pupil Profile front cover:

KS1 pupil profile example

Behaviour

At the beginning of the school year each class writes a class mission statement, these are signed by the children and displayed in the classroom. Children are also introduced to our school rules ready, resect and safe. Information about the school rules can be found in the School behaviour policy.

Attendance

Children have a target of attending school 96% of the time and having 0 lates. Each week in the achievement assembly there is an award for the class with the highest attendance and the class with 0 lates. The names of children who have 100% attendance are put in a box and a child from KS1 and KS2 are puller out to receive a prize. Classes who achieve 100% attendance can decide on what reward they receive such as a non-uniform day or an extra playtime. We understand that sometimes time off school is inevitable, however we always encourage pupils to come to school whenever possible.

Classroom

The mission statement that each class writes together gives the children a sense of ownership over their classroom. Children are taught to respect their classroom and resources. In our Friday assembly a class in KS1 and KS2 are awarded the tidy classroom and tidy cloakroom award.