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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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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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Towards a Centre for Radical State Education and other developments

Something we need to track?  Details are here, and there is also the FutureLab conference with a useful list of contacts mj

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Youth Citizenship Commission

One of the articles I found on Voice It1 (see previous post), written by one of the student ‘journalists’ was about the newly created position of Chair of the Youth Citizenship Commission.  This commission will: Examine what citizenship means to young people. Consider how to increase young people’s participation in politics; the development of citizenship [...]

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£6M for young leaders

29 February 2008 The Government wants to unlock the talent of young leaders so that more young people are able to champion local and national issues and to become positive role models for their communities. Launching the vision today the Government is encouraging more young people to become leaders, and committing to help more young [...]

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£1 Billion extra funding for schools, where's it going?

The government has allocated another £1 billion to children, schools and families over the next three years. While the plan does not have direct impact on the rest of the UK it is likely that it will lead to pressure for action in similar areas in Wales, Scotland and N Ireland – not least in [...]

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What's the point of this blog?

Well, I see it as a place where we can quickly note down our thoughts, experiences and links to news stories relating to education and participation.  Primarily we are doing this for each other (and ourselves), but it may also be of interest to other people interested in school councils and School Councils UK.  In [...]

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