All of the sleazy stories about our politicians that have been coming out recently have got me thinking about whether there’s anything school councils can learn from this. So let’s have a look at what we’ve got: Smear campaigns Missuse of expenses It’s easy to see in the first video how an announcement about policy [...]
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Sleazy school councils
Apr 17
Super-School Council
Apr 16
I’m not sure that there is anything this school council isn’t doing. It seems like the whole school is involved with different project as well which is brilliant. http://www.perthshireadvertiser.co.uk/perthshire-news/school-reports/2009/04/14/grantully-school-council-have-a-busy-schedule-73103-23377045/ Daisy Posted via email from schoolcouncils’s posterous
Apparently not enough young people are enjoying their natural surroundings and we think that school councils can help get pupils involved with nature. Natural England is an independent public body whose purpose is to protect and improve England’s natural environment and encourage people to enjoy and get involved in their surroundings and they recently conducted [...]
Recently, I have found a lot of stories about members of local government visiting school councils, this is just one of them. http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/fh/free/294158572456177.php I think they must all be looking for tips. Daisy
Is behaviour getting worse in schools? Do pupils treat their teachers and classmates with respect? Research published by ATL today suggests not, but school councils can provide learning on empathy, responsibility and improve relationships throughout the school. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has found that a nearly a quarter of school and college [...]
A new head teacher has started at Douglas Academy, Milngavie and he has highlighted the importance pupil voice is going to play under his reign. He even says that “pupils’ voice is as important as learning and teaching in the school.” Full Story Daisy
Results of a survey conducted by The Edge Foundation of 1,199 Teachers and 1,130 parents were released this week revealing a need to raise awareness and promote the value of vocational learning. A massive 56% of teachers said that their knowledge of vocational learning was ‘poor’. The Edge Foundation claimed this to be “a real [...]
Social Entrepreneur Wanted!
Mar 18
MyBnk are offering a fantastic opportunity for an enterprising individual to launch a new initiative under the MyBnk umbrella, helping to create the next generation of social entrepreneurs! MyBnk are a dynamic and award-winning charity working with young people to build the knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to manage their money effectively and [...]
Ephebiphobia
Mar 17
Interesting article in the Guardian today – discussing how damaging culturally it is for society to fear young people. It talks about the problems with automatically labelling young people in a negative way that I think much of what we do is trying to tackle: Link: Guardian article Also. I wonder if the 16 MPs [...]
http://sn.im/sedis [www_dcsf_gov_uk] Ed Balls is looking into how independent faith schools are meeting the requirements for them to provide, spiritual, social and emotional development for their pupils. Will they look into how many have school councils or other methods of whole-school pupil voice (still trying to find out what these are)? It’d be very interesting [...]
I thought this was interesting regarding the primary review stating that they planned to have a single enrollment date for all children. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/4973031/Extremely-premature-children-more-likely-to-struggle-at-school.html
More Young Mayors
Mar 12
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1172711 I know that we have had some contact with the Lewisham Young mayor and I think that it is really good that more people will get the opportunity to get involved. Also, I think it’s great that the importance of the views of young people are really being noticed and appreciated. Daisy
http://sn.im/esrcyouth ESRC – The youth of today: yobs or future leaders? ESRC is the Economic and Social Research Council It’s not that clear how one gets involved though. Obviously very good to be getting young people actually discussing these issues, rather than just being the subject of them. Not clear whether there’s any scope for [...]
www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/4165789.MP_observes_school_elections/ I thought this was a nice little story and it’s interesting that the elected pupils only serve for 6 months so make sure that more people get a chance to be involved. Daisy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqgXbI1_o8 A really excellent, academic summary of how the process of actively engaging wih the world could/will enable us to tackle challenges like climate change. Asher (but Jess G sent me this link originally)
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
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
