Awards Night Survey Results June, 2011

I attended 2011 Awards Night.

I have attended Awards Night in the past.

I plan on attending Awards Night in the future.

I appreciated having the YRHS Jazz Band entertain the audience.

I would like to see the YRHS Male / Female Presidents MC the evening.

I felt the length of the evening was too long.

What do you perceive to be the purpose behind Awards Night?  Overall year end awards  Spotlight kids achieving excellence  Student achievement night  Celebration of pursuit of excellence  Celebrate accomplishments, not just academics  Academic awards and awards for sports that did not have a banquet  Celebration of success

Con’t  Motivation to push through the last few weeks of school  Excellence in Academics, Athletics and the Arts  Top awards of students in all areas (don’t repeat banquet sports’ nights)  Student awards only  Acknowledge student achievements  Allow parents to see when their child receives an award  Honour our students

I agree the following awards should be given out on Awards Night.

List some ideas to “better” our present format of Awards Night.  Stream line the night – make it more entertaining  Speeches – 1 minute timed  Send out written invitations / s to parents of award winners  1 hour timeframe  Formal evening – all staff dressed formally or in school colors  SRC presidents need to rehearse  Principals / VP’s on either side of stage like Commencement, to keep agenda rolling, night moving  Arrange award recipients to make way to stage ahead of time  Fall / winter sports teams, should not be repeating banquet awards  Not “about” teachers, student focussed  Keep a personal touch, but not too much information  Stream line larger groups (80+ and 90+ and Social Awards)

Con’t  Door prizes – big one for end, so audience stays  Keep it student focussed  Band / choir should have a year end banquet similar to sports teams to hand out their awards – or do it at year end concert  Do not hand out “trivial” awards  Introduce students formally, formal tone to evening, less joking  Students make way to center stage for official award congratulations  Chad to take formal pics  Ensure major award winners will be present - RSVP  Present only Athletes of the Year (not all individual sports teams) – take care of the rest at a pep rally  Staff members to help direct traffic, keep students moving towards the stage

List ideas we could do to increase staff participation/attendance at this event.  Make it better, people will attend  Individual staff are the ones that look bad when they don’t attend  Attendance validates what we are trying to do here, teach students to excell  Give all staff something to do  We need to change our attitude – everyone of us should be there  This is a celebration of what we all work for all year  No easy answer – a busy week, Gina’s Garden, Band Concert, Awards Night and Senior Drama Night….personal commitments (family and professional obligations)…June is a busy month

Con’t  Staff should not be guilted into attending  Give the slackers a job  Guilt is the only solution I see  Count it towards Extra-Curr  Don’t have it in June  Streamline the evening and shorten the program  Staff members involved with tasks, and the presentations  Move it to the school day  Make it mandatory  If you don’t attend, you lose your parking spot for the next year and you have to park in Calder!

Where do we go from here?  Strike a committee  Review the data and suggestions more closely  Address the concerns  Make some informed decisions from the survey results as to how to make it better so everyone wants to attend!

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