blog logo

Posts Tagged guidance

You can narrow down this category by clicking on these tags:


14-19 achievement action agenda attainment behaviour branding Case study chair Citizenship class council college communication community cohesion Competitions & awards Conferences & events DCSF democracy democratic design dius ecm effective elections empowerment Enterprise ethos evaluation event feedback food fun Funding General education news good practice governors graffiti guidance identity International interviews investment journalism Just for fun KS1 (P1-P2) KS2 (P3-P4-P5-P6) KS3 (P7-S1-S2) KS4 (S3-S4) KS5 (6th Form/S5-S6) leadership lesson observation meetings minutes money/finance NASUWT New ideas Newsletters ofsted online parents Participation participatory budgeting Partnerships policy project management publicity public speaking pupil/student/learner voice relationships representatives research S1 S2) S4) S5 S6) school/student/pupil council School councils in the news school councils uk school improvement sef Session SIP/SDP speaking speaking & listening Staff Stories Strategy Student (associate) Governors survey sustainability tagline teaching & learning Teaching Unions Technology template tips & tricks training Twitter UN unions uploaded urban video wholeschool

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.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Common school council issues – with solutions!

Meetings have gone flatSolutions to a number of common school council problems including giving feedback, support from colleagues and meetings that have gone flat.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

School council ideas and student voice issues

Great ideas for school council projects and ways in which student voice is being used in schools across the UK.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Participatory budgeting – the essence of student voice?

How do you prove your school’s listening ethos?
Can you measure your school’s ethos?
Changing how you run your finances might be the answer.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Pupil interview panels – getting it right

Pupil interview panels make a huge statement about your school and have all kinds of benefits for staff and students. Rather than banning them as the NASUWT wants to, we suggest here how to do them well.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Creating a communication plan for whole-school involvement

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.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A short toolkit for school council co-ordinators

A short toolkit covering many of the essentials anyone working with school/ student/ pupil councils will find useful. If your school council has got a bit stale this will challenge you to think about how it’s set up and help you find a better way.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Improving learning through enhanced participation

I attended an event around interesting new research from the GTCE (General Teaching Council for England) about how increased pupil participation improves.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Is your school council counter-cultural?

Should school councils be about ‘improving the school’ or ‘representing the views of all pupils’. Generally the two are inter-dependent, but which one takes primacy if there is a (perceived) conflict?

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Leadership, codes of conduct and lovely honey

A session I ran for the Golden Company on leadership and creating a code of conduct.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A whole bloomin’ class council scheme of work!

This is brilliant, our first resource shared by a teacher and it’s an absolute corker! Chloe Doherty gave us this scheme of work she wrote for her year team last year. She wanted to get class councils off the ground as she recognised without them the school and year councils didn’t really mean much.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Chris Keates vs the Green Cross Code Man

Two opposing views on pupil voice (and a Government statement). Chris Keates, head of the NASUWT, is against certain extensions of pupil voice, and a progressive teacher gives his opinion on why it is essential.

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , , , ,

Ofsted interviewing school councils

I was just having a look on the TES’s forums and this issue seemed to be quite popular.  Is it something we could produce a resource on?  I’m sure it’s something teachers would really value.  Maybe it would just be a short one that could be downloaded for free (if people give us their email [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , , ,

Site Optimization by PHP Speedy Site Optimization by PHP Speedy