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Jul 22
The school council at Richard Coates School played a major role in promoting their anti-bullying campaign that led to them recieving this award. They felt it was very important to get the whole school involved as it is an issue that effects everyone.
An Anti-bullying week was organised and included a variety of activities from tutorials [...]
Primary school pupils from Budbrooke got the chance to speak to a man whilst he was hundreds of miles away in outer space, and then even better this week they got to see him in person and ask him anything they wanted, from what he eats to what he wears.
Better still this fantastic opportunity all [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Hansard Society are holding a forum to discuss what contribution should under-18s be making to politics?
Speakers at this event will include Jo Swinson MP, Emily Benn PPC and a member of the UK Youth Parliament. There will also be the opportunity for an open discussion with the audience.
The event is to be held, Wednesday 10 [...]
So what's a Baraza?
May 12
Now, I like to think I’m fairly well informed when it comes to pupil voice, but as part of my current project I came across something I’d never heard of before: a Baraza. Any ideas what it is? Well, unless you speak Swahili, it’s unlikely. This concept has come over to us from Kenya, via [...]
This guy contacted us about training last week, and I though his role was really interesting, so I asked him to write a blog post for us. Here it is.
Vicky
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Stepping back four years ago at Hirst High School Technology College, it would certainly seem like a different school. With a planned student strike against the [...]
Over the last couple of weeks whilst searching the internet for news on school councils I have noticed a number of stories celebrating the positive praise school councils are receiving through their inspection reports. I have picked out a few examples to share with you.
Shilbottle First School celebrated receiving Ofsted’s outstanding rating for the third [...]
I was reading through Gordon Brown’s big speech on education yesterday: http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page19209 (I was a little surprised at the lack of full stops, but that’s not the main point of this post) I really liked the main thrust of his argument: that we get out of recession by making education better and fairer rather than [...]
I’ve just got back from the launch of the English Secondary Students’ Association’s (ESSA) new project, ‘Manifesto for Change’. It’s a campaign in the form of a competition. The idea is to collect together the thoughts and views of young people aged 11-19 and form these into Manifesto for Education. ESSA are asking people to [...]
Just been working on two exciting things, but very different things.
I’ve been proof-reading our first resource for pupil voice activities in an early years setting. It’s mainly about self-expression and empathy and I think it’s really nice set of lesson plans. It’s quite exciting for me both because it’s the first thing I’ve worked [...]
Generation Gap!
Apr 22
The government has pledged £5.5million to help close the widening generation gap.
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