For schools
Oracy is a skill, not a subject. Here is how a school sees it grow.
Minivox gives teachers a way to set spoken work in any subject, gives pupils a reason to do it, and keeps what they make so progress in talk is as visible as progress in writing.
Why now
What is changing, and what is not.
From September 2028 the refreshed national curriculum is statutory for every state school, academies included, with spoken language more prominent in English and Citizenship. The government has committed to a national oracy framework alongside it, which schools will be expected to teach to and evidence. The framework is guidance, not law; the curriculum is statutory, and spoken language is in it. The question every leader will be asked is the one already asked about reading: how do you know your pupils are getting better at it?
Inclusion first
The pupil who can say two paragraphs but cannot write one.
Every school has him. He is bright, he dreads the page, and his work never shows what he knows. Give him a spoken task and the gap closes: two minutes in his own words, heard by his teacher, kept with his other work. For the pupils a school is most accountable for, this is not an add-on. It is the job.
The door
Start with homework. It changes nothing about the timetable.
Record yourself explaining it. Two minutes, phone or tablet. It goes to the teacher, who hears it and responds. The class can see it inside a closed space where the only audience is people who know you. Work that is heard, responded to and kept, instead of dying in a markbook. Once a school has the habit, it runs through the day: a lesson, a club, a PE challenge, drama, a careers task.
How it works in a school
Set. Say. Hear. See.
Set
Choose a task or write your own, in any subject. Say who sees the result: the class, or just you.
Say
Pupils record voice, video or a podcast, or write a story, on a school device or at home.
Hear
Voxi gives a first response against the task. You hear the work, adjust the response and approve it. Nothing is visible until you do.
See
Each pupil's work sits in one place across the year. Leaders see the class and the school.
The four strands
What the strands look like here.
Linguistic
Choosing the right register for a podcast, a presentation or a story.
Cognitive
Making a point, justifying it, building an argument.
Social and emotional
Speaking to an audience of people who know you, in a space with no judgment mechanics.
Physical
Voice, clarity and delivery, improved through recorded practice a pupil can hear back.
The evidence, honestly
Six months. For the teaching, not the tool.
The EEF puts oral language approaches at around six months' additional progress, on extensive evidence, at very low cost. That is evidence for the teaching, not for any product. Minivox is built to make that teaching easier to set, easier to keep and easier to see. Judge it on that.
Pilots
Running a pilot.
We run paid, time-limited pilots with named schools and trusts: a cohort, a term, a named school lead, a success measure agreed at the start, and a named data controller before any pupil records a word. If you lead literacy, English or oracy in a school or trust, tell us what you want to see and we will come back within two working days.