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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 …
Solutions to a number of common school council problems including giving feedback, support from colleagues and meetings that have gone flat.
Great ideas for school council projects and ways in which student voice is being used in schools across the UK.
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 if [...]
We’re starting up a friendly, monthly five-aside game in Old Street for anyone working in the youth and citizenship fields:
bit of fun, bit of sweat, bit of networking
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.
I attended an event around interesting new research from the GTCE (General Teaching Council for England) about how increased pupil participation improves.
Slovakian adventure!
Oct 6
I’m back in London, via Vienna, after an amazing time in Kosice, Slovakia. It was a very inspiring and interesting three days.
Great to hear about the challenges, successes and stories of people in other countries who are broadly trying to do the same things as us in the UK. Great to meet so many motivated, passionate young people. Great to visit Slovakia for the first time – it is a beautiful country!
Slovakia Day 2
Oct 3
The main event was the visit a secondary technical school in Kosice. We had a tour of the school, and the countries who are participating in the project explained their projects – and what was happening with student voice in their countries – to the students.
Slovakia Day 1
Oct 1
In the UK, the idea behind student voice is pretty much considered a good one (just not a lot of people do it well), whereas in Slovakia the whole idea of genuine representative democracy is much newer, and far less popular.
We’re approaching the end of the pupil voice research we’ve been carrying out for the DCSF and SSAT.
We’ve also been invited to a student voice event in Slovakia.
Although you wouldn’t know it from the websites of the Prime Minister or the Department for Education and Skills, today is International Youth Day. What are you doing to help young people and make their involvement sustainable?
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
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 [...]
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 action to come out [...]
I went to this forum last week which was very interesting. A full transcript of all the sessions can be found under External Relations\Westminster Education Forum\Healthy School Food 250908 transcript (the password to access this is in brackets). However, in the meantime, there are a number of contacts that I think we need to follow [...]
Technology and participation
Feb 13
I’m going to be facilitating this seminar, it looks pretty interesting:
The Learner Voice and Technology workshop will be held on Tuesday 26th February at the Futurelab Offices in Bristol. http://www.futurelab.org.uk/about_us/contact_location
The workshop aims to explore the potential of technology to engage learner voice in the primary, secondary and FE/HE sectors.
We will take [...]
Some 2,600 schools in London are set to get e-safety software though the London Grid for Learning (ITPro reports).
Online and computer safety software is set to help protect a million London students from inappropriate content and cyber-bullying.
The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a group of 33 local authorities which provides a common learning platform to [...]
