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blacon Character Award (BCA) and LORIC

Developing Character and Personal Success

At Blacon, we believe that education extends beyond academic achievement. Our Blacon Character Award (BCA) recognises and celebrates students’ personal development and their contribution to the wider school community.

The award is built around the LORIC framework, which encourages students to develop essential life skills that prepare them for success in education, employment and life.

At Blacon High School, LORIC stands for:

  • Leadership
  • Organisation
  • Resilience
  • Independence
  • Creativity

The aim of LORIC is for students to be recognised beyond the academic curriculum, supporting them to become active, responsible and successful members of the wider community.

Throughout their five years at Blacon, students are provided with high-quality enrichment opportunities and cultural experiences that help them develop these key skills.

To support this, the school has created Blacon Character Award statements for each LORIC skill. These statements ensure all students have access to a wide range of learning experiences both inside and outside the classroom.

Our goal is for students to understand the real value of these life skills and to be recognised for their personal journey and character development, not only their academic outcomes.

How the Blacon Character Award Works

Every student is challenged to develop the five key LORIC skills:

  • Leadership
  • Organisation
  • Resilience
  • Independence
  • Creativity

Students work towards completing LORIC statements during each Key Stage.

  • Students must complete at least 5 statements within a LORIC skill to receive a school certificate.
  • Over the course of a Key Stage, students aim to complete a minimum of 25 statements.
  • Students who achieve this will receive the prestigious Blacon Character Award, which is added to their Record of Achievement and can be shared with colleges, employers and apprenticeship providers as evidence of their personal qualities and general aptitudes.

Tracking and Celebrating Achievement

  • LORIC forms part of a fortnightly tutor-time registration activity.

  • Tutors support students in identifying and completing statements.
  • Achievements are recorded on SIMS mark sheets by form tutors.
  • Students also record evidence in their personal progress portfolio.

  • Success is celebrated through:

  • School assemblies
  • Celebration events
  • Recognition from CALs and Progress Leaders
  • Features on the school website, blog and newsletters

  • Students across all year groups are engaged in the programme, with progress for Year 9 and Year 11 monitored for certification.

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Blacon Character Award Statements

Students complete statements linked to each of the LORIC skills in their key stage.

Key Stage 3 LORIC Statements

Leadership

Students may achieve this by:

  1. Communicating a meaningful point during a PSHE discussion
  2. Supporting peers and setting a positive example in and outside the classroom
  3. Achieving a subject attainment, effort or achievement point, or a Head’s Commendation
  4. Demonstrating effective leadership within a lesson and modelling positive behaviour
  5. Displaying politeness and excellent manners around school and acting as a role model

Organisation

  1. Consistent engagement with remote learning and home learning
  2. Attending a club or extra-curricular activity
  3. Being organised with tutor demands for a term
  4. Having no late arrivals to tutor registration and lessons in a half term
  5. Attending a school trip, event or workshop

Resilience

  1. Achieving 80+ SSA Grade 1s in a half term
  2. Achieving 95%+ attendance in a term
  3. Showing perseverance in learning
  4. Demonstrating determination to achieve a goal
  5. Responding positively to feedback and results to improve progress

Independence

  1. Engaging with guided reading for a half term
  2. Visiting and engaging with a national or local park, gallery, museum, heritage site, library or archive
  3. Volunteering within the classroom or outside school
  4. Completing home learning tasks consistently for a term
  5. Performing a random act of kindness

Creativity

  1. Completing a challenging extension task in the classroom
  2. Participating in a club, society or organisation in or out of school
  3. Contributing to student voice activities or school surveys
  4. Demonstrating creative thinking during lessons
  5. Being recognised on the Blacon weekly blog, website, newsletter or social media

Key Stage 4 LORIC Statements

Leadership

  1. Leading or contributing during a lesson, school event or community event
  2. Applying to a sixth form, college or apprenticeship
  3. Achieving a subject attainment, effort or achievement point, or a Head’s Commendation
  4. Communicating a meaningful point during a PSHE discussion
  5. Displaying politeness and excellent manners and modelling positive behaviour

Organisation

  1. Preparing a CV during a PSHE workshop
  2. Consistent engagement with remote learning and homework
  3. Participating in work experience, college workshops or mock interviews
  4. Being organised with tutor demands for a term
  5. Attending regular interventions, Period 6 or homework clubs

Resilience

  1. Achieving 80+ SSA Grade 1s in a half term
  2. Achieving 95%+ attendance in a term
  3. Demonstrating perseverance
  4. Showing determination to achieve a goal
  5. Responding positively to feedback and results to improve

Independence

  1. Attending a professional performance or supporting an extracurricular event
  2. Visiting a national or local park, gallery, museum, heritage site, library or archive, or volunteering
  3. Participating in careers activities such as open evenings or researching post-16 providers
  4. Engaging with careers guidance
  5. Completing a random act of kindness

Creativity

  1. Learning a new skill inside or outside school
  2. Attending an extra-curricular club, society or organisation
  3. Participating in student voice activities or surveys
  4. Demonstrating creative thinking in lessons
  5. Being recognised on the school blog, website, newsletter or social media

 

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