A list of useful works on the importance of school councils, student voice and participation in education. Compiled for educational charity ARK.
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Asher and I had a great day at Parliament last week. It was the Speaker’s School Council Awards Ceremony, that we’ve helped Parliament out on for the second year running. It’s been a brilliant project for us to work on.
Modelling democracy is an incredibly important role of the school council, but it’s something that’s easy to get wrong. Are you trying to model values or structures?
Various free things for our friends to take advantage of.
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.
Here’s Alison’s second blog, about the amazing Student Voice Conference at Little Heath! I’ve got a few videos from the day too, which I’ll upload soon. It’s been an exciting couple of weeks! Wednesday 2nd February was our annual Student Voice Conference at Little Heath. If I’m being honest I can’t believe it is over [...]
One of the main issues that many school councils face is that they don’t include enough students. This often leaves the rest of the school pretty uninterested in what the school council are doing. In trying to overcome this, here’s Asher giving a few ideas for you on how to think about the traditional school [...]
A rundown on what we’ve been up to at the end of last year and beginning of this one and also some free stuff for you.
Alison is employed as a Student Voice Assistant at Little Heath School in her gap year. This is her first post of a regular series about what it’s like to be a Student Voice Assistant and what is happening with Student Voice at Little Heath.
Can your school council noticeboard actually help drive change? Here’s a simple idea for what you could do with that space that would actually make your school council more effective.
Citizenship as a subject could be for the chop under the Coalition Government’s plans for education: what you can do to ensure this doesn’t happen. Also, free resources and training sessions for school council reps.
A short, practical session to help students look at the pros and cons of different ways of collecting views from across the school.
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.
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?
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.














