A brief summary of the findings of School Councils UK’s 2007 action research project, which looked at how far a selection of London secondary schools could take pupil voice with dedicated support.
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A brief guide on how to use your school council to link up with the local community and how to get the local community to help your school council.
At some point your school council will need to go and talk to adults. You might be proposing a project or event, asking them for help, or making a complaint. You need to do this in a professional way. This guide will help you prepare what you need to say.
A detailed view of how effective school councils and pupil voice fulfil each outcome of the Every Child Matters agenda.
Great for filling out your SEF and seeing how pupil voice can benefit everything you do in school.
SMART targets are the basis for all good project plans. They help you break down a project into all the necessary parts, so you can see whether it’s really a good idea. So if you’re trying to decide between a few courses of action, or you’re trying to sell your idea to someone else fill [...]
Whilst School Councils UK is being wound up, we’re hosting an archive of all the materials from www.schoolcouncils.org. It’s at: involver.org.uk/SCUKarchive/www.schoolcouncils.org/ Of course doing these kinds of things without a huge amount of technical knowledge always throws up problems. So I’ve been scouring the internet to find solutions, some are easier to find than others. [...]
The school council at Richard Coates School played a major role in promoting their anti-bullying campaign that led to them recieving this award. They felt it was very important to get the whole school involved as it is an issue that effects everyone. An Anti-bullying week was organised and included a variety of activities from [...]
Primary school pupils from Budbrooke got the chance to speak to a man whilst he was hundreds of miles away in outer space, and then even better this week they got to see him in person and ask him anything they wanted, from what he eats to what he wears. Better still this fantastic opportunity [...]
I got a call on Friday from a someone I hadn’t heard from for years. She and I used to volunteer doing youth work together. It turns out she’s now working on a BBC kids show called M.I. High (Official BBC mini-site; Wikipedia page). The school they film in had one of our posters up. [...]
The reaction to the YCC's report will demonstrate the real political will to engage young people
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
The anti-school council
Jun 23
Vicky from School Councils UK met a school that beleive that pupil voice can come from the headmistress
Yesterday, Learning and Teaching Scotland’s Young People’s Advisory Group announced it’s first national conference ‘YOUth citizenship: inside and out‘. The event has already sparked off much interest from all over Scotland. The idea of the day is to explore citizenship in order to make more people understand its importance and to celebrate acheivements that have [...]
The Independent Schools Council this week reported that their research has shown that extra-curricular activities improve academic performance. Whilst school councils are not necessarily an extra-curricular activity the research from isc examined how “many studies have shown that a rounded education comes from a combination of good academic grounding coupled with wider experiences outside of [...]
I am currently reading a paper that has been published by the Human Scales School Project, which is a partnership between Human Scale Education and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The idea behind Human Scale Education is to create small scale learning communities where children and young people are known and valued as individuals. The report [...]
Ashden Awards
Jun 12
On Wednesday, 10th June, I went to a conference hosted by the Ashden Awards at the Imperial College, London. The Ashden Awards for sustainable energy are to reward those making advances in local solutions to climate change. The purpose of the day was to give the Ashden Awards finalists the opportunity to talk about their [...]
I read this article about Dundee City Council banning a primary school having a cake sale due to health and safety and couldn’t believe it. Read the story here We have also just put a poll on our website asking you what you think the best ways to raise money are, a cake sale is [...]
Hansard Society are holding a forum to discuss what contribution should under-18s be making to politics? Speakers at this event will include Jo Swinson MP, Emily Benn PPC and a member of the UK Youth Parliament. There will also be the opportunity for an open discussion with the audience. The event is to be held, [...]
This guy contacted us about training last week, and I though his role was really interesting, so I asked him to write a blog post for us. Here it is. Vicky —————————– Stepping back four years ago at Hirst High School Technology College, it would certainly seem like a different school. With a planned student [...]
