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Student voice in your SOLE

Sugatra Mitra’s SOLE project is an exciting one for learning in all kinds of ways, here’s how you could use it for student voice.

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School council and student voice case study: Barming Primary

Barming Primary School in Kent tell us about how their school council and class councils help everyone to get involved in school improvement.

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School council and student voice case study: Woodhouse College

A student voice case study from Woodhouse College showing how their students can influence the core work of the college in an effective way.

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School council and student voice case study: Wildern School

Wildern School in Southampton approaches student voice through UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools model. It’s a great example of how this approach can achieve whole-school improvements.

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School council and student voice case study: Reddish Vale Technology College

Here’ s Reddish Vale Technology College’s student voice case study, focusing on the ethos of the co-operative movement.

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School council and student voice case study: Studfall Junior School

Over to Corby in Northamptonshire for another great school in our amazing school council and student voice case studies!

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Czech teachers telling us about their school councils

Here’s a few presentations from teachers telling us about their school councils.

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School council and student voice case study: Wroxham School

An amazing case study on achieving whole-school and inclusive student voice in a primary school. It’s from the research project that we did for the did for the Children’s Commissioner.

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School council elections: compilation of free resources

It’s the beginning of the school term. Loads of school council elections are taking place across the country, but many of them aren’t organised as well as they could be.  Often this is perfectly understandable; running the election is sometimes thrust upon an unsuspecting teacher, so here’s a complication of the resources we’ve got to [...]

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Newsletter 8: Planning projects, factory schools and student voice good practice

April 2011 Newsltter: Including free resources, videos and articles with tips for school councils on project planning and how a school run like a factory can improve student voice.

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Project planning and evaluation videos for school councils

6 short videos to help school councils and other student voice groups through all the stages of planning, carrying out and evaluating a project.

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Newsletter 6: New awards, new training and new resources for the New Year

A rundown on what we’ve been up to at the end of last year and beginning of this one and also some free stuff for you.

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Newsletter 5: Citizenship under threat

Citizenship as a subject could be for the chop under the Coalition Government’s plans for education: what you can do to ensure this doesn’t happen. Also, free resources and training sessions for school council reps.

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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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I’d like to thank my mum, God and all the little people

I’m a little bit excited today, well actually I have been all week, because tomorrow we’re off to a very swanky awards ceremony at the Hilton in Park Lane, where Greg has won an award! So, we’ve both bought our outfits and arranged a very select group of colleagues and friends to join us (sorry [...]

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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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Manifesto for Change, ESSA's national video competition

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 [...]

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Diana Award winner

Idil Mohammed is a Diana Award winner, who juggles being a carer, going to school, and on the school council. click here Melodie

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