Medals

About

The Pod will reward successful schools by awarding them activity medals.

These medals will reflect how much time and effort schools have put into running activities.

There will be three kinds of medal:

  • gold
  • silver
  • bronze

This approach has been inspired by the Pod's relationship with the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

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Silver

A silver medal will also involve a lot of hard work. You'll have to change behaviour in most areas of your school.

You will be encouraged to make an audit of your school's current practice.

You will also post blogs about the work you've done. If you skip the audit, you will need to put more work into your blog.

For example,

  • if you were running an activity to put bricks or hippos in your school toilets, you might successfully put hippos in 50% of the toilets in school. Your blog might contain between 10 and 15 posts with some video or image content.

Gold

To win a gold medal, you will be expected to make significant changes in your school.

You will keep a record of the work you do, by filling in audit tables and by writing a blog. If you skip the audit, your blog will need to be longer and more varied.

One example of a gold medal campaign might be:

  • if you were running the Goodbye Standby! activity, you might successfully cut the number of devices left on standby in your school by 75%. You would have 20 entries on your blog with a variety of video and image posts.

Bronze

To win a bronze medal, you will have to make important energy, carbon or water savings in your school.

If you carry out an audit to record these savings, you will stand a better chance of winning a medal.

In addition, you will keep track of how your campaign is progressing and blog as often as you can.

This might involve between 5 and 10 blog entries and possibly some video and image posts.

You will also lay the foundations for other pupils to make even greater savings and perhaps win silver or gold medals.