It’s called Exploratree and it’s made by Futurelab: www.exploratree.org.uk I’ll be trying it out with school councils next time I’m running training. Came across it through Twitter: http://twitter.com/parslad If it seems useful it’s something we could suggest to people in our e-newsletter. Asher
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http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/search/4153071.BEXLEYHEATH__Top_teaching_job_taken_by_11_year_old/ Daisy
Some of the things that have been happening here are: Working with Estyn to incorporate the National Participation Standards in the new Common Inspection Framework post 2010 Working with other policy departments here to mainstream pupil participation into key policy areas – e.g. the School Effectiveness Framework, 14 – 19 Learning Pathways and Quality Effectiveness [...]
I was just looking at this: http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/participationandlearning/index.asp It’s the particiaption element of the new curriculum that will be in force in Scotland from 2014 (although is being widely used/built up to already). The document is interesting. Also talks a lot about how there are structures other than school councils, but then quite a number of [...]
Something for you all to have a look at. I thought if we wanted to do a poll for students we could ask them about their experiences of exclusion from school. http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/behaviourandattendance/about/Sir_AlanSteer_Behaviour_Review.cfm
The elements of change
Feb 12
An interesting perspective on what makes change happen from Matthew Taylor: One step at a time to saving the planet If we want people to help save the planet we need to start giving them clearer signals and incentives. But the biggest obstacle might be the green movement itself. More MJ
Patrick Wilson is seeking to be appointed a position within the school council on You Tube. Melodie Simpson
I just came across this: http://www.pledgebank.com/ It’s another really good site from mySociety.org It could be a site we suggest pupils use – or if we don’t want to suggest a site, it’s something that a school couls easily create an ‘off-line’ version of on a noteboard.
