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If you’re on Linked in (or is it Linkedin?), and you’re interested in school councils and student voice, then we’ve just set up a new group to connect people.
If you’re on there, and want to join, then visit http://lnkd.in/mpSBk8, or search for Student Voice and School Councils Education Network.
Hope you’re all doing well and enjoying the sun and World Cup. We’ve created some new resources and found a few things that you and your schools might find useful, so here they are …
We aim to dispel some of the misconceptions that the NASUWT’s campaign to roll back student voice is based upon.
Jun 28
The most telling question/statement at the launch of the Youth Citizenship Commission’s final report came from a delegate representing the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), he suggested something along the lines of, “Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Government’s response to this report is to do nothing? What would that tell young people about [...]
School Councils were featured as being very important in a recent government commission
www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/4165789.MP_observes_school_elections/
I thought this was a nice little story and it’s interesting that the elected pupils only serve for 6 months so make sure that more people get a chance to be involved.
Daisy
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/search/4153071.BEXLEYHEATH__Top_teaching_job_taken_by_11_year_old/
Daisy
It talks a lot about pupils as observers, but pulls in everything really. Would be useful for ’school councils in the news’ section.
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007557
Asher
Ofsted have just produced a report on successful strategies for taking schools out of special measures, it contains some strong words about pupil participation:
Pupils and students’ greater engagement in school life had a significant influence on improving outcomes in almost all of the schools surveyed.
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Establishing and keeping high profile a school council, an open forum
or [...]
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RECYCLING ideas have been top of the curriculum for pupils of Longman’s Hill Primary this week.
Teachers and students at the Selby school have spent time researching and collecting data about recycling, and even making their own clothes from recycled materials before performing their own in-house fashion show.
Now on VBlog.
Earlier edit:
TEENAGERS got to see South Shields MP and foreign secretary David Miliband at his place of work.
A group of nine Mortimer Community College students visited the House of Commons in a recent trip to the capital. Link
Mark
CHILDREN from Irthlingborough Junior School are to be among the first to receive a gold award for their democratic efforts. Link
Mark
Less than two years after facing a possible reduction in pupil numbers, Eastington Primary School is looking forward to a near £800,000 expansion …
Pupils, and especially the school council, had a “huge input” into the planned development and Mr Strang said: “They’ve even had three or four breakfast meetings with the staff in preparation.”
A STUDENT from Bolton has met Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street.
Aziz Mulla, aged 15, who is headboy at St James’ CofE School in Farnworth, was a guest at a reception hosted by Mr Brown to celebrate the work of young people in helping others.
“I was very impressed to hear about the work [...]
YOUNGSTERS are riding on the crest of a wave after learning they will experience life as a pirate.
Jan 24
ROYDS Hall High School has been awarded the Kirklees Healthy School Standard Gold award.
Suzy Rhodes, the Primary Care Trust’s Healthy Schools Co-ordinator, said that Royds Hall High School has an active school council which helps get the message across and that it has carried out improvements to school lunches.
Member of the school council, Matt Caine, aged 14, who helped to voice pupils’ opinions to developers, said: “We are really pleased with the design. It looks great for what we want and need to get the most out of the school.
“We are excited that we’ll still be able to use the facilities here when [...]
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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