My daughter is a primary school teacher and she was very upset yesterday to hear one of her year 2 pupils say that if she went up a level in her Sats test her parents would give her a big present. As a secondary school teacher and mother of 3 children I was always amazed at the number of parents who offered their children big rewards for doing well in exams. If they then fail they do it 3 times over; once in the exam, then by not getting the reward and finally by letting their parents down. At GCSE and A level time I rewarded my children for the revision they did by giving them a star chart. 20 minutes revision equalled one star. These were later swapped for rewards, 10 would be a cinema ticket or whatever they wanted. These were so popular with them that one daughter was still using her revision star chart in her medical finals! Doing well in the exam was enough reward in itself.
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