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School council welcome pack – helping new school councillors

Bringing on new school councillors can be difficult. Use this simple structure to create a welcome pack and plan for how to support them and get your school council off to a flying start.

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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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Primary school council elections

A process, lessons plans, worksheets and ideas for how to make your school council election successful, effective and inclusive.

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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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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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The new Ofsted framework will undermine student voice

The new framework for school inspections released by Ofsted today removes all pressure on schools to involve their students in self-evaluation and improving their own community.
When schools are being blamed for not connecting young people with their communities a key tool that helped young people to see that their communities are what they make them, not something that happens to them, has been swept away.

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Riots, discipline and student voice

I was involved in a short debate on BBC WM’s breakfast show this Monday. I was put up against Nick Seaton from the Campaign for Real Education, who campaigns against progressive education. Have a listen and see what you think: As with any interview like this no one gets the time they want to put [...]

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School council interview questions

Questions school council interview panels might ask and some advice and guidance on how to deal with them.

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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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Newsletter 7: Getting more people involved in student voice

Various free things for our friends to take advantage of.

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Tutor/form time activities to prepare for a school council election

5 short sessions that can be run in tutor/form time to introduce the whole school to what the school council is, why they should stand and how they should vote.

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We’re looking for a web design/development intern..

Hey all, Over on the join our team page, we’ve got details of an internship we’ve got available. Please give us a tweet, email or call if you’re interested! Or you could read the details below: Web Developer/Designer intern We’re looking for a web developer/designer intern to help us create a new community website for the [...]

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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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School council success: improvement or representation?

What’s your school council really about? How do you measure its success? Is it by what it changes or how well it represents all pupils’ views?

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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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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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