Meritorious Awards and Trophies for Scholars
Competition is as healthy and beneficial at school level, as it is in business. Winning and being awarded a trophy is extremely satisfying to young winners – motivating them to strive for even higher levels of achievement. Losing teaches scholars about good sportsmanship, and the value of perseverance and practice.
Although the first seven years of a child’s life are known as the formative years, which largely determine the person that they will become one day as an adult, children continue to learn and grow throughout their schooling and beyond.
Tangible Recognition
Young minds really are like sponges, soaking up information and life lessons, one of them being that “whatever you put in, is what you get out”, or as golfer Gary Player was reputed to have said “the more I practice, the luckier I become”, when told that he was very lucky to have won top golfing awards and sought-after trophies.
It’s important that young, malleable persons receive recognition and accolades, such as awards and trophies – rewards for exceptional achievements at school, for which they’ve undoubtedly had to train, study or otherwise work hard for – the fruits of and tangible rewards for their labours.
Children are naturally competitive, liking nothing better than being placed well or first in an individual or team sporting or class competition. Consequently, most school awards and trophies are either for academic or sporting achievements.
School Awards and Trophies
Award policies and practices at schools may vary greatly. Before the advent of the internet and its extensive use as a research, information and learning medium, many schools presented books as prizes for top scholars. A certificate of merit would be pasted just inside the front cover of the volume.
Silver cups are often given for winning at sports, usually a small version for the child to keep, whilst their name or that of their team is inscribed on a large trophy, wall plaque or shield, retained by the school and permanently on display in the office building or hall.
Trophy & Medal Boutique’s School Award Suggestions
• An engraved cup on a plinth
• Framed certificate of merit/achievement
• Resin trophy
• Acrylic design/s
• Figurine, mounted on a plinth (immensely popular with youngsters and their parents)
• Wooden trophy with champions’ names affixed
• Shield or plaque, also customised with winners’ names
• Badges and lapel pins
Schools are offered an extensive range of trophies and awards, standard, customised or specially designed and made according to specified requirements, competitively priced. Trophy & Medal Boutique looks forward to supplying schools with trophies which young competitors will dream of winning.