Raffle Tickets

NuttySupplier · #1 (**permalink**) 30-03-2006, 06:12 PM

I'm doing the raffle ticket thing Wed-Fri this week as it's Easter and I wanted a way to get out of buying the kids hot cross buns or something. I'm in the same class all the time, so it's easily done. I don't usually like extrinsic rewards, but it's Easter, sod it. There are 3 prizes going to be given out on Friday at 3:20pm, Chicken Little Kinder Surprise egg thingys, best bargain/bribe I could find at Tesco's.

Anyway.

Wor
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a treat. As soon as I give one child a ticket, they all shut up and work, wanting me to walk round the classroom. Fine! I walk round, give them all one, they've all got one more! No-one's really realised that they're no better off for having that extra, but all the better for me!

Running into a few problems though.
There's a kid now trading them in the playground.
There's a kid who gives them to a friend as he 'knows' he isn't going to win, so there's no point.
There's a
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of girls who have decided that all Melissa's will go to Rachel, so they've got a better chance of winning, and then they'll share the chocolate and give the toy to Rachel's little brother!

Arghh!

Enterprising little twerps!

Intrinsic rewards work best!

Gnomoospan · #2 (**permalink**) 30-03-2006, 06:16 PM

You have to admire them though don't you Nutty, just like the chat room fiend who set it all up while the teacher was in the room during wet playtime! Plus, I certainly couldn't do a chat room, unlike you N!

NuttySupplier · #3 (**permalink**) 30-03-2006, 06:31 PM

It's hard work keeping all you foul-mouthed teachers in check G'span!
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clarabelle · #4 (**permalink**) 30-03-2006, 06:54 PM

Ha! That's hilarious!

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minnie · #6 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 10:41 AM

Oh nooooo and I recommended this behaviour management technique to someone the other day!!!! Do you think I should hunt for the thread and post the potential problems?
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Naaaa she can find out for herself!
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Seriousishly though, maybe raffle tickets works better for one day supply rather than a we ek or longer? Genuine question as I haven't yet used it but will be after Easter.

BTW this is my first post and I get an eek smiley when I type week as opposed to we ek. Is it the software or is it me?

NuttySupplier · #7 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 11:25 AM

Hi minnie... it's me, messing about with the smilies... it always comes up! There're certain phrases you'll find you type, and something crops up.. like:

co uple
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bad ha ir day
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Some are useful shortcuts to the smilie, and some are irritating! It takes me an age to get round to changing them though!
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eek is e ek, as you saw...

Raffle tickets... well, the outcome of it all was that 3 little girlies won the 3 Kinder eggs, but not without a negative note. One lad, behaviour book, call home each week etc., swore blind he had more. He'd won. (I couldn't let him win as that'd mean 2 girls tied for third place, and the egg wasn't large enough to cut in half!) But then I asked his best mate (the kid who was giving them to a friend coz he knew he had no chance of winning) how many he'd got. He gave an answer that was less than I knew I'd given him that day (I was ma
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damn well sure that he actually did stand a chance of winning!) Problem solved. But such an anti-climax for the kids/winners! Not-so-nice 3:30pm
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t to the Easter hols!

The lad will make an excellent politician one day. I asked were they all his, 'they all came out of my drawer', I asked did he put them all in his drawer, 'I put all the ones you gave me in my drawer Miss', and are all those in your hand ones I'd given you? 'They are all the tickets from out of my drawer.' This went on a while.
Then his guard dropped as the bell went and he wanted to race out to play football: I asked how many I'd given him, 'about 23 Miss', and how many did he have? 34!

However, the tickets worked a treat! I know the kids well, and I don't have problems with them as I've been teaching them part-timeish for a while now, so it was just a tester for me, and an Easter treat for them... but it'd be interesting to see how enterprising another class would be on a day's supply!

Gnomoospan · #8 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 05:06 PM

so N, is it child with most who gets prize or do you actually draw a number? might try it with my 2 classes for prizes at end of year, could then keep it going next 12 weeks???

Footiegirl · #9 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 05:46 PM

Got to give him credit for trying Nutty!!!
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NuttySupplier · #10 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 06:08 PM

I love him Footie! Lad after my own heart!

G'span... I did kids with the most who won, it was just a quick and easy thing I did.

However, you can, and probably should, do it as a draw... just have to talk to them about how those with the most have a better chance of winning. This would then get over the problem of the kids who don't think they stand a chance, so don't even try... if they've even just one ticket in there with their name on, they've a chance. Good maths lesson! Be careful you don't get done for gambling... apparently, new laws, schools can't have raffles/tombolas anymore!

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