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School council success: improvement or representation?

What’s your school council really about? How do you measure its success? Is it by what it changes or how well it represents all pupils’ views?

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Student voice policy – 5 quick tips

A friend asked for help writing a student voice policy at her school. My answer was 5 quick suggestions on how to create one. They’re all here.

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Newsletter 3: Why bother, audit, training and fantasy football

We’ve found some great resources for you, created a student voice audit tool and been doing some thinking about why democracy in schools is so important.

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School council training – get in touch!

Lots of schools are beginning to think about training their school council, or student voice groups, for next academic year.

If you want to make your student voice READY, then get in touch! You can read more about our training here.

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involver newsletter 2: School council ideas, problems and solutions

Hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the sun and World Cup. We’ve created some new resources and found a few things that you and your schools might find useful, so here they are …

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School council ideas and student voice issues

Great ideas for school council projects and ways in which student voice is being used in schools across the UK.

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Participatory budgeting – the essence of student voice?

How do you prove your school’s listening ethos?
Can you measure your school’s ethos?
Changing how you run your finances might be the answer.

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Pupil interview panels – getting it right

Pupil interview panels make a huge statement about your school and have all kinds of benefits for staff and students. Rather than banning them as the NASUWT wants to, we suggest here how to do them well.

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Official response to NASUWT’s threat of industrial action

We aim to dispel some of the misconceptions that the NASUWT’s campaign to roll back student voice is based upon.

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Creating a communication plan for whole-school involvement

A session from training I ran at the Albion High School in Salford on how to create a communication plan that will get more people involved with your school council.

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A short toolkit for school council co-ordinators

A short toolkit covering many of the essentials anyone working with school/ student/ pupil councils will find useful. If your school council has got a bit stale this will challenge you to think about how it’s set up and help you find a better way.

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Improving learning through enhanced participation

I attended an event around interesting new research from the GTCE (General Teaching Council for England) about how increased pupil participation improves.

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Is your school council counter-cultural?

Should school councils be about ‘improving the school’ or ‘representing the views of all pupils’. Generally the two are inter-dependent, but which one takes primacy if there is a (perceived) conflict?

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The Fun Theory

A great video. This is what school councils should be about: making things better by making them more fun.

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Leadership, codes of conduct and lovely honey

A session I ran for the Golden Company on leadership and creating a code of conduct.

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