The following video gives a sneak peak at a school using Vivo Miles. See Vivo Miles in action to find out what teachers and students think about this rewards system.
Video Transcription:
Bett Awards 2010
Leadership and Management Solutions Category
Winner Vivo Miles School Rewards System
Leadership and Management Solutions Category
Winner Vivo Miles School Rewards System
Student: Welcome to The Duston School. We’ve got a new rewards system we think it’s really well for students and teachers.
Achievement and behaviour are key priorities for any school. And at the Duston School we try give them a highest priority as possible. And we try to do that by rewarding every young person in a much personalised way.
Teacher: For your fantastic inflation of the lungs I am going to award you with Vivo Miles. Remember how many Vivos I said I was going to give you?
Student: Thirty
Jane Herriman. Head Teacher. The Duston School: The old system we used to do for reward students was a stamps system of awarding students by their behaviour and their work, and a credit mark.
Jennie Thornhall. Assistant headteacher. The Duston School: The student’s voice within the school, they raised concerns that they want as happy as they could be without our old rewards system.
Their concerns were that it really wasn’t being applied consistently throughout the school and they thought actually that was quite unfair, and secondly, some of the old students did not really valued our old system that much.
Student: We get Vivos for good behaviour and good work that we can spend in the online shop.
Teacher: Vivo Miles is an online web-based and it integrates with our current data management system which means, when you log on as a teacher your classes for the day are on there. It brings on your register and you are able to reward your students simply with a click and a button.
Teacher: So in terms of asking questions, 50 vivo miles for asking the questions, well done!
Student: Thank you.
Peter Kouzaris. Global Education teacher. The Duston School: It’s the easiest rewards system that we’ve ever introduced. It hasn’t added at all to my workload and once the initial setup has been done it’s really very easy to teachers to use. It’s there, you bring your class up and you reward your points in the lesson.
Student: You can spend the vivos in almost everything, in key rings, mp3 players. I am saving up until I have enough to buy something really special.
Student 2: We also save the vivos to donate them to charity that is absolutely excellent, off course! I have found passion about raising funds for Haiti, so we want to raise funds for Haiti by money and we also encourage people at school to donate their Vivo Miles.
We raised about ten and a half thousand Vivo Miles which is amazing!
Jennie Thornhall. Assistant headteacher. The Duston School: Another great thing about the system is it really helpful with the inclusion agenda in particular parents. Parents are able to have a look with their children at home, what their balance is, they are able to see specifically what they been rewarded for. So in the past it was simply that they gained the reward, whereas now they can see exactly in which lesson, for what particular skill, or what particular activity their son or daughter is undertaken.
Parents are also able to receive the information about their son or daughter rewards by mobile phone that increases the line of communication.
Peter Kouzaris. Global Education teacher. The Duston School: You get your thirty vivos it’s a lovely mark. Well done, let’s give him a round of applauses.
I love seeing the reward system in some classes has had a dramatic effect on learning. It’s increased interest and certainly motivates children to perform to the very best.
Jane Herriman. Head Teacher. The Duston School: The Duston school it’s been in a failed category until last year, for seven years. It was the longest failed second school in the UK and we could not for long way in the last few years, and I would actually say that the introduction of Vivo Miles has been instrumental in wanting young people to achieve even more.
Jennie Thornhall. Assistant headteacher. The Duston School: The difference the system has made for teaching and learning within the school has been huge and not only has raised the profile of rewards, and does not only encourage students to buy into their system.
It has actually had a big impact in their achievement, because they want to gain rewards and they value the rewards, it’s necessarily having the impact we would like to see on their learning, but they actually are trying out new things that perhaps they might not have done before because we were not able to reward them for helping out in parents evening, to helping out with extracurricular activities. So it actually embraces all the things the students can be rewarded for at school and moved them away simply from a reward system being based on academic achievement which is really important to us as we want to promote the success of the whole child.
It has actually had a big impact in their achievement, because they want to gain rewards and they value the rewards, it’s necessarily having the impact we would like to see on their learning, but they actually are trying out new things that perhaps they might not have done before because we were not able to reward them for helping out in parents evening, to helping out with extracurricular activities. So it actually embraces all the things the students can be rewarded for at school and moved them away simply from a reward system being based on academic achievement which is really important to us as we want to promote the success of the whole child.
