House Points is a class points board and house points tracker built for the classroom whiteboard — a simple, free alternative to ClassDojo for the points side, with no pupil accounts and no parent app. Every pupil gets a card with their own chosen mascot; tap it to award a point and it bursts with confetti in front of the whole class. Points save to your class automatically, houses get their own colours, and a mis-tap takes one press of Undo to fix.
Most house point systems live on a wall chart or a tally on the corner of the whiteboard — easy to smudge, easy to forget, and reset every time the board gets wiped. This keeps the running totals on screen instead: a live points board the class can see, with the celebration doing the motivating for you. The moment a point lands, the pupil's card pops with confetti in their house colour — which is exactly the bit a sticker chart can't do, and there's no pause: points land as fast as you can tap.
It works for individual merits and for a whole house point system. Give each child a house colour and their card carries it on the board, so individual points visibly build into the house race across the term. Sort the board by name for the register view, or by points when the class wants to see the leaderboard.
Everything saves to your class automatically — no export, no spreadsheet. Totals are waiting next lesson, next week and next term, on whichever whiteboard or laptop you sign in from.
How does the House Points board work?
Pick a class and every pupil gets their own card on the board. Tap a card to award a point — the card bursts with confetti in the pupil's house colour and the total updates instantly, as fast as you can tap.
Can I track houses or teams as well as individual pupils?
Yes. Give each pupil a house colour and their card carries it on the board, so individual points build up into house totals across the class.
Are points saved between lessons?
Yes — every point saves to your class automatically, so the totals are waiting for you next lesson, next week and next term.
What happens if I tap the wrong pupil?
Press Undo in the top right to take the last point straight back.
Can I sort the points board?
Yes — sort the board by name A to Z or by points high to low, straight from the header.
This is the app I use for recording house points with my own class. The children love it — watching their points go on the board is engaging and visually interesting in a way a wall chart never managed.
It also takes the stress out of keeping track. Because the chart is electronic, everything saves itself, and it genuinely saves me loads of time — I’ve recommended it to loads of teachers.
— Rob, the teacher behind Sage
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