The Three Rs of Birchwood:Rights, Rules, Rewards

Creating a learning environment where all can grow…

At Birchwood High School, we believe that where all members of our school community work together to create an outstanding learning environment, student success will flourish. Every individual who has experienced success pays tribute to those who helped shape and support them along their journey.

What is it that makes Birchwood High School such a special place to learn and grow?

Staff committees and student leadership teams looked at what they felt created the ideal learning environment. This led us to Birchwood’s Three Rs, where students invest in the process of every learning experience and are rewarded for doing so. Every student who lives by our Three R’s contributes to the wellbeing of the school and gives themselves every opportunity to not just be successful academically, but also a decent and kind member of society moving into adulthood.

The Three Rs of Birchwood

Rights(What should students expect to experience in their lessons?)

  • Consistent Routine
  • To Feel Safe
  • High quality teaching (ALCAM-E)
  • To be respected and fairly treated
  • To learn in a disruption free environment

Rules(What do we expect of students in lessons?)

  • Be Prepared
  • Keep your hands, feet and objects to yourself
  • Allow teachers to teach and students to learn
  • Be engaged and show effort
  • Follow instructions without question

Rewards(What should students expect to be rewarded for in their lessons?)

  • Kindness
  • Contribution
  • Effort
  • Mastery
  • Progress
The Birchwood ABC - Conquer

At Birchwood we reward students in a number of ways

We use house points to recognise achievement for day-to-day recognition of students who do the right thing in or out of lessons. Once they accrue a certain number of house points they become eligible to receive an end of term certificate and if 100 plus points are achieved they are eligible to attend an end of term rewards day.

Students may also be nominated for Student of the Month from one of their many subject teachers. For this they receive additional house points, a certificate and a faculty pin badge.

We ask all at Birchwood to familiarise themselves with our Behaviour Policy and Anti-Bullying Policy
Key Policies – Birchwood High School (birchwoodonline.co.uk)