I got a call on Friday from a someone I hadn’t heard from for years. She and I used to volunteer doing youth work together. It turns out she’s now working on a BBC kids show called M.I. High (Official BBC mini-site; Wikipedia page). The school they film in had one of our posters up. [...]
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The reaction to the YCC's report will demonstrate the real political will to engage young people
Jun 28
The most telling question/statement at the launch of the Youth Citizenship Commission’s final report came from a delegate representing the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), he suggested something along the lines of, “Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Government’s response to this report is to do nothing? What would that tell young people about [...]
School Councils were featured as being very important in a recent government commission
The anti-school council
Jun 23
Vicky from School Councils UK met a school that beleive that pupil voice can come from the headmistress
Yesterday, Learning and Teaching Scotland’s Young People’s Advisory Group announced it’s first national conference ‘YOUth citizenship: inside and out‘.
The event has already sparked off much interest from all over Scotland. The idea of the day is to explore citizenship in order to make more people understand its importance and to celebrate acheivements that have been [...]
The Independent Schools Council this week reported that their research has shown that extra-curricular activities improve academic performance.
Whilst school councils are not necessarily an extra-curricular activity the research from isc examined how “many studies have shown that a rounded education comes from a combination of good academic grounding coupled with wider experiences outside of the [...]
I am currently reading a paper that has been published by the Human Scales School Project, which is a partnership between Human Scale Education and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The idea behind Human Scale Education is to create small scale learning communities where children and young people are known and valued as individuals.
The report looked [...]
Ashden Awards
Jun 12
On Wednesday, 10th June, I went to a conference hosted by the Ashden Awards at the Imperial College, London. The Ashden Awards for sustainable energy are to reward those making advances in local solutions to climate change. The purpose of the day was to give the Ashden Awards finalists the opportunity to talk about their [...]
I read this article about Dundee City Council banning a primary school having a cake sale due to health and safety and couldn’t believe it.
Read the story here
We have also just put a poll on our website asking you what you think the best ways to raise money are, a cake sale is one of [...]
