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Novus Clinic is piloting a program to give students incentive to do well in school.
The new program, It Pays to Get A’s, allows each student in the Coventry school system to have a chance to win Best Buy gift cards, and registered teachers to win Holcomb’s gift cards.
Every student who brings their report card into Novus Clinic can fill out entry cards for each A they have earned. If their homeroom teacher is registered in the program that teacher will also win a Holcomb’s gift card so they can purchase school supplies. Each nine weeks, students will have three weeks to bring in their report cards and fill out their entries and 12 names will be drawn. At the end of the school year, Novus Clinic will give away one laptop to a lucky winner and the school they attend will also receive a laptop.
“When we put an office in the community we want to support that community from the top down,” said Dr. Jerry Sude, Novus Clinic. “We wanted help the school system, who is losing so much funding.”
Sude helped come up with the idea, and along with some staff members, brought it to fruition.
“We wanted to encourage families and students with exemplary manners and good grades and make it fun,” he said.
Why Best Buy cards? So kids can buy what they want; CDs, movies, electronics, etc...They also get a backpack with goodies when they come in to register. Cooper Vision, a vendor Novus Clinic deals with, helped with donating the backpacks.
Sude said another reason for running the program is to bring awareness to the community about the importance of good vision care and the correlation between good vision and academic excellence.
“Sometimes if a child is not performing well it can mean a vision problem,” Sude said. “Parents don’t always realize the problem, and it is not gross neglect. It is that they are just not aware.”
Sude is also running a special for those in the school system without insurance to come to the clinic and get an eye exam and a pair of glasses for $99. The average cost for this would be $200.
Sude recommends that parents begin bringing in their child at age 2 for eye exams to detect problems early. He said they have objective tests that children who are too young to respond can go through to diagnose problems.
Coventry schools has a goal to reach a rating of excellence this year and Kim Hoch of Novus Clinic said that fit in with what the program is trying to do and was well received by the administration and teachers.
Based on feedback and how well the program goes this year, Hoch said she hopes to open it up to other school systems in the future.
“Our long term goal is to rally the community around the school system,” said Hoch.
Novus Clinic is piloting a program to give students incentive to do well in school.
The new program, It Pays to Get A’s, allows each student in the Coventry school system to have a chance to win Best Buy gift cards, and registered teachers to win Holcomb’s gift cards.
Every student who brings their report card into Novus Clinic can fill out entry cards for each A they have earned. If their homeroom teacher is registered in the program that teacher will also win a Holcomb’s gift card so they can purchase school supplies. Each nine weeks, students will have three weeks to bring in their report cards and fill out their entries and 12 names will be drawn. At the end of the school year, Novus Clinic will give away one laptop to a lucky winner and the school they attend will also receive a laptop.
“When we put an office in the community we want to support that community from the top down,” said Dr. Jerry Sude, Novus Clinic. “We wanted help the school system, who is losing so much funding.”
Sude helped come up with the idea, and along with some staff members, brought it to fruition.
“We wanted to encourage families and students with exemplary manners and good grades and make it fun,” he said.
Why Best Buy cards? So kids can buy what they want; CDs, movies, electronics, etc...They also get a backpack with goodies when they come in to register. Cooper Vision, a vendor Novus Clinic deals with, helped with donating the backpacks.
Sude said another reason for running the program is to bring awareness to the community about the importance of good vision care and the correlation between good vision and academic excellence.
“Sometimes if a child is not performing well it can mean a vision problem,” Sude said. “Parents don’t always realize the problem, and it is not gross neglect. It is that they are just not aware.”
Sude is also running a special for those in the school system without insurance to come to the clinic and get an eye exam and a pair of glasses for $99. The average cost for this would be $200.
Sude recommends that parents begin bringing in their child at age 2 for eye exams to detect problems early. He said they have objective tests that children who are too young to respond can go through to diagnose problems.
Coventry schools has a goal to reach a rating of excellence this year and Kim Hoch of Novus Clinic said that fit in with what the program is trying to do and was well received by the administration and teachers.
Based on feedback and how well the program goes this year, Hoch said she hopes to open it up to other school systems in the future.
“Our long term goal is to rally the community around the school system,” said Hoch.
