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Newsletter 11: Can your school council do this?

This newsletter’s chock full of case studies, with a downloadable simple minutes template.

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School council and student voice case study: Westfield Community School

Westfield tells us about the importance of regular and inclusive class councils, driving the influential school council. As school council case studies go, it’s a good one!

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Quick minutes template

A simple template to keep track of what was decided in a meeting. Just focussing on the essentials.

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School council and student voice case study: New Line Learning Academy

A great student voice case study where learners are placed at the heart of the curriculum. Student voice focuses around the design team who help to design all aspects of the school.

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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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Ways to run school council meetings

A few ideas on ways you can liven up your school council meetings (or any other meetings) and ensure that everyone gets a say.

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Primary school council policy

Trying to create a short and simple but comprehensive policy for how school and class councils should work in a primary school.

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Out of the toilet and in to the classroom

Many school councils get stuck just talking about the appearance of the school. Here’s a simple suggestion to ensure that rest of school life gets a look in.

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School councils – welcome back!

Hello everyone, Welcome back to school. Hope you all had a fun summer! To give you a quick  idea of what we’ve been up to….. In between lovely holidays to Loch Ness, Aberdeen, Rugby and France, we’ve been doing lots of work on the Smart School Council Community, a charity we’re setting up and supporting. [...]

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New addition to the involver team:

Nice, huh?  

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A fun day at the Speaker’s School Council Awards

Asher and I had a great day at Parliament last week. It was the Speaker’s School Council Awards Ceremony, that we’ve helped Parliament out on for the second year running. It’s been a brilliant project for us to work on.

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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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Making a great student voice conference even better – part 2

This is part two of a blog on Little Heath’s Student Voice conference. You can read the first part here. This concentrated on the older students who were organising the conference, and the adults that supported them. This second part will look at the experience of some of the younger pupils who are more recently [...]

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Student Voice Conference by Alison, Student Voice Assistant

Here’s Alison’s second blog, about the amazing Student Voice Conference at Little Heath! I’ve got a few videos from the day too, which I’ll upload soon. It’s been an exciting couple of weeks! Wednesday 2nd February was our annual Student Voice Conference at Little Heath. If I’m being honest I can’t believe it is over [...]

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School councils: how to make them inclusive

One of the main issues that many school councils face is that they don’t include enough students. This often leaves the rest of the school pretty uninterested in what the school council are doing. In trying to overcome this, here’s Asher giving a few ideas for you on how to think about the traditional school [...]

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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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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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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.

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Ashley School – using school councils to teach Citizenship

A few pointers on how to get the most of of your school council for teaching citizenship and improving relationships in your school.

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