"Give him 'Weekend'!!!!!" Huh??

A confident child, tries his best and, usually, stays out of trouble.  Some parents use sports and other activities as another way of instilling this self confidence, discipline, and respect in their children.  Sometimes children come into our studio with discipline problems at home or at school that their parents don't know how to handle and they bring them to us in hopes that we can "straighten their kid out".
The Headmaster believes that the best way to teach a child discipline is to force them to try their best and to extensively reward them when they do so.  Therefore we have many occasions in which we reward a child for doing his/her best in front of their parents and classmates.
"Give him 'weekend'!!!", says the headmaster at which time those of us who have heard this clever phrase before start clapping and the others follow suit.
"Give him a Big Hand", is a new English phrase that the headmaster is noticeably proud of because his face lights up like a lactose intolerant first introduced to almond milk whenever he says it.  I'm not sure how he learned this phrase or from whom, but, in this case, some really did get 'lost in translation'.  Good thing there are those of us who are able to understand the situational cues and commonalities of the way the head master speaks to his students.  I must say, however, that I miss his old phrase "Give him Clapping", because this one made much more sense and did not cause new-comers of the Korean-English to fall into complete confusion and give up all together.
I wish I could give a "weekend" to someone every time they tried their best!!! Why doesn't someone give me a "weekend" when I try my best???  Wait! Is it even possible to give someone a "weekend" just by clapping.
Oh, I do hope one day I can understand the Headmaster's true, calendar-worthy, wisdom.  :)