School Prefect Questions- Could You Help Please?

GD was successful! I'm so very proud of her ☺

Well done to your DGD!

Congratulations to your granddaughter TheMostSuprisingGran!
I hope she enjoys her role and the responsibility 😊

Excellent news!
She should be proud of her achievement. It will stand her in good stead.

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I agree with the posters who said that being a prefect has nothing to do with academic ability. If it had I would have been chosen as I was always top of the class. However I was also rather rebellious and got away with a lot on the strength of being a "teachers pet".

I never once stayed for detention or attended sports day. I never looked really smart because my mother bought me second hand uniforms. I also broke a boys nose in my first year at secondary school (although it was in self defence). I think the teachers would have been better pleased if I had reasoned with the bully rather than giving him a whalioping.

I don't think the OP suggested that the role has anything to do with academic ability. As often as not the prefect role is a way of teachers recognising different skills in children. The academically able get rewards for that, the sporty ones win on sports days and in competitions or represent the school on teams. The ones who can act or who are confident get role in plays, the arty ones have work on display etc.

IMO a caring school should look for ways to reward every child for something, so they all have a stake in the school community one way or another. A prefect can fulfil that role with or without abilities in other, more obviously recognisable, talents.

Congratulations, OP. You must be very proud of your granddaughter, and she should be proud of herself, too.

Oh, well done!
That's lovely news.

I was never a Prefect - mainly I believe because the Head disliked me and I disliked the Head but I did get the best A level results in school which was more important to me at least.

The wider world is made up with brainboxes, prefects, teachers pets, good all-rounders, all kinds of people.

I wasn't a brainbox or a prefect, or even a good all-rounder.

We're all cogs in the big old wheel called life, each playing our part.