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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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Citizenship stays but it needs to be active

That Citizenship stays in the National Curriculum is very important, but it needs to see that active citizenship is far more than volunteering.

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Involver Internship

Hi, I’m Cameron. Currently interning here at Involver. This is a little info about myself, Involver and what I’ll be doing here over the coming weeks.

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A personal explanation of a Czech school council

The school council in Dobronin explain what they have done and how they work.

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Great ideas from Brno for effective school council meetings

Some tips from Brno on how to make your school council meetings effective.

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Fantastic school council meeting in Krnov

A great school council meeting from Krnow in the Czech Republic with games, action and decision-making.

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Czech school council tour

We’re visiting school councils right across the Czech Republic this week, we’ll be updating the blog daily to let you know how student voice works here.

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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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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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Involving very young children in pupil voice

How do you involve the youngest children in your school? Sitting them in a meeting, no matter how well run, can be difficult. Here’s a way to get them involved and learning how to participate.

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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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Pupil voice is needed for Haringey school improvement

Haringey’s recently announced commission, Outstanding for All, neglects to engage with the people at the heart of the debate, the students.

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School council and student voice case study: Kirk Merrington Primary School

Pupil voice in this small school is established through shared values and a culture of respect, leadership and responsibility for the whole school community.

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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: 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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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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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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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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