Eight-year-old Sivan wins £100 in shopping vouchers for himself and £15 for each of his classmates at Broad Oak Primary School in East Didsbury.
The Be There draw - which has a prize chest of at least £3,000 a week - has been designed to boost attendance and cut truancy.
Sivan was one of six names drawn at random.
Winning the prize depended on him having been in school last Wednesday morning - a time drawn at random.
If he had been absent he would have lost the prize, which would then have made next week's jackpot even bigger.
Sivan will spend the prize on computer games and books.
He said: "If you are not in school you are not getting educated, you will not be able to do exams and you won't be able to get a job."
The scheme will run as a pilot for 10 weeks while education chiefs monitor its impact on attendance. If successful it could continue. Tweet
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now the world is going mad
paying children to turn up
to school ?
i only hope the money will
come from parents who
are fined for not making
sure there children attend
school ?
lets have more teachers
and interesting lesson
not gimmics at the cost
to hard pressed tax payer