Pledges
The Wickersley Pledges are at the very heart of empowering students to be confident, well-rounded, enthusiastic, caring, happy, can-do people, ready for the wider world. The Pledges, coupled with the School Ways, develop personal skills and attributes and broaden the horizons of our students.
At WPT, we aim to send all young people into an ever-changing world, able and qualified to play their full part in it. The qualified aspect of this speaks for itself; we aim for our students to achieve strong qualifications that support them in their next steps of education, training or employment.
Furthermore, a student who makes that commitment to the Pledges will develop independence and self-discipline by augmenting their participation, performance, communication, creativity and cultural capital.
Pledge Categories
Active Citizenship
Preparing you for life in modern society
- Volunteering
- Charity
- Appreciating diversity
- Democracy
Life Skills
Equipping you to deal with a range of life experiences
- Careers and aspirations
- Communication
- Wellbeing
- Independence
Cultural Experiences
Enabling you to learn about your local community and support diversity
- Extracurricular
- Reading
- Out of School
- Understanding your roots
About the Pledges
Why are we encouraging students to achieve Pledges?
- Pledges encourage students to get involved in a wide range of different activities in school and outside school.
- Students will gain a wide variety of new and exciting experiences which will increase self-esteem, raise confidence, make them feel ‘good’ about themselves
- They inspire students to have drive and tenacity, to stick at a task, to understand how to set, work towards and achieve long term goals.
- Students will gain valuable life experiences and skills to help them progress to further study and an exciting career, putting them on a path to success.
- They help shape students to become more prosperous, well-rounded young adults.
- Above all, pledges help students to have a more valuable and enjoyable experience at school.
- The Rawmarsh Pledge sets high expectations for our students and demands personal accountability
- Students will be provided with new experiences, learn new skills, develop existing knowledge, gain in confidence and grow as an individual and as a ‘team player.’
- Together, the attributes and skills developed throughout the Rawmarsh Pledge aim to develop students' aspirations about their future, their abilities and drive them on to great things.
- The Rawmarsh Pledge embodies the Rawmarsh Way and this is an expectation of our entire school community.
Rewards and Recognition
Certificates
Pin Badges
When students have completed all three categories in each band they will receive a pin badge for example a Bronze pin badge for completing all of the tasks in Cultural Experiences, Life Skills and Active Citizenship.
Platinum Awards
Platinum Awards are designed to demonstrate advanced skills in each of the three pledge categories. Students who achieve the overall Gold award will be put forward to the CEO to complete a WPT Platinum Project.
Celebrations
Student achievement will be celebrated in a number of ways including through presentation of certificates in assemblies, Annual Rewards Assemblies and annual WPT Gold celebration events.
