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The Leventhorpe School Barnwell School |
The Leventhorpe School – a case study
Teachers spending time taking registers and blockage caused by students huddling around the late book meant Myles Hamilton (Head of Sixth Form) was always looking for a solution on how to improve tutor time and engage students registering in school. In March 2009 Myles became aware of faceREGISTER being installed at nearby school and went along to see what the fuss was about. While there he saw students being enrolled and using the system. Fired up, he went back to school, discussed it among colleagues and then decided to call Aurora to find out more.
After being impressed with what faceREGISTER could do and hearing of the future development plans, Myles and the school arranged for faceREGISTER to be installed at the end of the summer term. All of the current year 12 students were enrolled on faceREGISTER ahead of them entering year 13 in readiness for the full launch in the new academic year, September 2009. Myles also quickly picked up how to use the administration software, faceMANAGER, along with the sixth form administrator.
The start of term arrived all too quickly and Myles enrolled the new year 12 students in the first couple of days of term in readiness for everyone to use. Myles has found that students adapted to using faceREGISTER very easily except for a couple of individuals who forgot that wearing hair over their faces caused them not to be registered. Students waiting to register behind them soon made them understand about using faceREGISTER properly.
Myles was very impressed with the SIMS integration that was installed in September. This meant that students were able to register, be asked for a reason if they were late and then these attendance marks are written directly into SIMS. Myles opted for the Lesson Monitor option which meant that faceREGISTER could be used for lesson by lesson registration and the marks be written straight back into Lesson Monitor in SIMS.
Half a term into fully using faceREGISTER and Myles has been impressed with how the system has worked; “It’s revolutionised our tutor time giving greater personalised tutoring”. No longer is there a queue to use the late book; “….we don’t use a signing in/out book anymore, the students love using the new technology.”