Vivo Miles has contributed to improve students motivation and engage pupils in their learning, facilitating the development of skills that would be transferable beyond the classroom.

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Case Study: Alexandra High School
The Facts
Alexandra High School and Sixth Form Centre is a mixed school
for 11-18 year-olds in Tipton, Sandwell. Some of the school’s 1300
students are from 3rd generation unemployed parents and, despite
being creative and ‘streetwise’, are notoriously difficult to motivate.
The Challenge Vivomiles are awesome
The older students in particular were no longer responding to the dated and I think that they are
‘credits and merits’ system, and the school wanted a system which a good way to make people
reflected their business specialism and their ethos: ‘Business is Learning’. turn over a new leaf.
It was essential that any such system would engage pupils in their A huge improvement
learning, and facilitate the development of skills that would be transferable from the old system, and
beyond the classroom. well worth it. I got a hair dryer,
Also paramount was that all staff participated and rewarded students and am saving up for
consistently, including support staff and even the school’s community something else now, even if I
police officer. don’t know what it is yet!

2. The Results Creative Use
Feedback revealed that 95% of In line with the school’s model for
students were happier with Vivo Personal Learning and Thinking
Miles than the ‘credits and merits’ Skills, punctuality could now be
scheme, and 60% of students were rewarded as ‘self management’;
quickly learning about real-world and a student reflecting on the
finances by saving their Vivo impact of their behaviour on
currency. successful learning could be
rewarded for ‘reflective learning’.
The school worked closely with
Vivo Miles looking at the issue of Alexandra High School also used
accountability – staff use is Vivo Miles to advertise ‘jobs’ within
monitored using the ‘statistics and school, on one year contracts,
reports’ functions enabling staff which allowed successful students
who need extra training to be the opportunity to buy the top
supported. The school’s work product from the vShop.
scrutiny forms were rewritten to
include ‘evidence of use of Students were given job
Vivomiles to reward students’. descriptions and paid every term
through Vivo Miles, and budgets
Staff who are ICT wary have could be attached to the users
commented on how easy it is to where necessary thanks to the
reward students with Vivo Miles. flexible nature of the system.
It immediately sold itself as a system that would What is more impressive is how Vivo
appeal to students motivated by both immediate Miles actively worked with us to develop
and deferred gratification. It was win-win from day one. the system so it delivers what we need.
Julie Goddard, Deputy Head, julie.goddard@alexandra.sandwell.sch.uk, 0121 557 4146