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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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How you can help teach about participatory budgeting

See how you can help create a series of interactive videos to promote whole school student voice through participatory budgeting.

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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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Getting class council meetings to work

A template that gives your class representatives the confidence to feedback to their class and a structure for bringing in new ideas and opinions.

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Student voice ideas and projects

A huge list of student voice ideas and projects provided by teachers and headteachers at a course involver ran for ASCL in October 2012.

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Promoting your school council with plaques

If you struggle to get people to come up with ideas for your school council, here’s an idea that will help. Celebrate your successes and people will come to you.

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Improving meetings and other ideas

A simple idea to overcome the issue of students not having the skills to run meetings themselves.

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School councils in Poland

Every school in Poland has a school council so what can we learn from them and are they effective?

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School council and student voice case study: Lark Rise Academy

Another great case study from Lark Rise Academy, who use POW WOW sessions to get everyone involved in school decision making. Inspiring!

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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 councils in the Czech Republic

A summary of our recent trip to work with school council coordinators in Prague, Czech Republic.

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School council and student voice case study: St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School

A great school council/student voice case study from an inspiring primary school in the West Midlands.Their Friday Forums help every child in the school to get involved in improving the school.

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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: Little Heath School

One of involver’s favourite schools tells us how student voice works for them. They run an amazing student voice conference every year, which helps them to include a lot of people and get a lot done. Great stuff!

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School council and student voice case study: Beauchamp College

Student voice at Beachamp College includes student governors, a student ambassador, a student-led inspection, students appointing staff, student-led research and clubs and societies led by students. This case study explains why they do all of this.

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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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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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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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