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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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St Nicholas and rhetological fallacies

Some great posters on techniques used to incorrectly argue a point, and a visit from the Czech Santa Claus and his assistants.

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Fantastic school council meeting in Krnov

A great school council meeting from Krnow in the Czech Republic with games, action and decision-making.

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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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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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Free school council networking in London

Very often there’s just one member of staff in each school with responsibility for student voice and the school council (ideally it should be part of everyone’s role) so it can feel like you’re a bit unsupported. We’d like to set up some regular free events around London to get school council co-ordinators together to [...]

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Newsletter 10: How do you ‘do’ student voice? Here are some of our ideas

A new book, a whole load of free resources and Greg looking lost in Ireland.

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Welbourne pupils take over involver

On Friday 11 November, Tottenham-based, social enterprise, involver, will be taken over by pupils from Welbourne Primary School. Four pupils will be made Directors of involver for a day, running the organisation and deciding on its future strategy.

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‘How to’ guide on student voice

Here’s the first part of our findings from a brilliant research project that we worked on for the Children’s Commissioner. It’s all about best practice in student voice, and here’s a short ‘How to’ guide with as much advice as we could possibly fit onto two pages. Feel free to download and share. You can [...]

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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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Pupil voice, creativity and learning detectives

Two primary schools explain how they have been engaging their pupils more deeply with their own learning and encouraging creativity.

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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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Student voice through Twitter

Twitter’s an amazing resource for professional development for teachers. It’d be even better if students were on it talking about their school and education too. Here’s my idea.

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School council reps’ tookit

A free little pocket guide for school council reps, year council reps, and class reps, in fact anyone who represents others as part of student voice.

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Does a youth council have to look like a council?

Why do we set up youth councils as boring meetings? Is there a better way to do it? This is my experience trying a youth-led approach.

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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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School council and student voice Linkedin Group

If you’re on Linked in (or is it Linkedin?), and you’re interested in school councils and student voice, then we’ve just set up a new group to connect people.

If you’re on there, and want to join, then visit http://lnkd.in/mpSBk8, or search for Student Voice and School Councils Education Network.

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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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