General:

• The awards may be presented as trophies or any other means agreed upon by the Committee.
• Awards are to be given on the last day of school after the Annual General Body meeting

Award Details:

• Four (4) awards per level
• The teachers will decide the awards and the Committee will review the decision before the announcement to ensure that the awards go to intended students
• There will be a partial audit of the award decisions to ensure that the award criteria are being applied consistently across all levels and to ensure fairness to all children
• If no student is eligible, award will not be given

Criteria:

• Attendance from beginning of the year at least 70%
• Class evaluation results (Top 40% of the class) {the word evaluation includes any written or oral evaluation of the student during the school year }
• Level of extra-curricular participation
• Homework completion

Objectivity:

Beginning School Year 2007-2008, Mukul Management Committee, in collaboration with Mukul Teachers and OCDSB Site Administrator, has attempted to bring more objectivity and transparency to the student selection process for Class Achievement Awards. The details are provided below:

• All Class Achievement Awards are based on OCDSB Report Cards, as per previous years
• The Report Card has the following components:
  1. Academic Performance consisting of Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
  2. Awareness consisting of Cultural Understanding, Participation, Cooperation and Respect for Learning Environment
  3. Completeness consisting of Punctuality and Completion of Tasks
• To align to the above criteria, weights were assigned to the above components as below:
  1. Academic Performance - 40%
  2. Awareness - 30%
  3. Completeness - 30%
• A spreadsheet was created to arrive at a cumulative student performance value based on OCDSB ratings of A, B, C & D  and by assigning numeric equivalents to these ratings (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1).
• The Student Name was masked, when the data was entered into the spreadsheet, to improve the objectivity.
• The individual student report cards were entered into this spreadsheet, to arrive at the cumulative score for every student. Mukul Teachers are responsible to enter these and assistance was provided by the Site Administrator/Mukul Management Committee where required.
• The TOP 4 Students were selected for the Class Achievement Award. In the case of SPLIT Grades Grade 5 & 6 and Grades 7 & 8) the TOP 2 Students per Grade were selected for the Class Achievement Award.

As this is the first year of the process, it was decided to recognize all students who scored in the TOP 4 (or TOP 2) Cumulative Scores. This will be revised/revisited in the coming years.