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School council and student voice case study: St James CE Primary School

St James uses UNICEF’s Rights Respecting Schools, fundamental school principles and a two tier school council structure to help everyone get involved in student voice.

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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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Ways to run school council meetings

A few ideas on ways you can liven up your school council meetings (or any other meetings) and ensure that everyone gets a say.

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Out of the toilet and in to the classroom

Many school councils get stuck just talking about the appearance of the school. Here’s a simple suggestion to ensure that rest of school life gets a look in.

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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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Pupil voice, creativity and learning detectives

Two primary schools explain how they have been engaging their pupils more deeply with their own learning and encouraging creativity.

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Newsletter 8: Planning projects, factory schools and student voice good practice

April 2011 Newsltter: Including free resources, videos and articles with tips for school councils on project planning and how a school run like a factory can improve student voice.

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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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Student voice-o-meter is born!

Happy friday everyone, For the last few months, we’ve been working on an exciting new student voice/school council tool called the Student Voice-o-Meter. We’ve worked closely with two very talented people, Robert Johnson doing the amazing illustration, and Derek Winton pulling all the database and code stuff together. We’re extremely grateful for their help, ideas [...]

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Putting ideas in to action

Lodge Park Technology College used an idea from involver’s to get the most out of their school council noticeboard. Here they share their success.

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Using student voice in lessons, a couple of ideas

I’ve tried out a couple of little ideas for increasing the student voice in my classroom recently, neither took any extra effort on my part, but I think both have increased the engagement of students in their own learning.

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Making a great Student Voice conference even better – Part 1

Another year, another amazing Student Voice Conference at Little Heath School in Reading. I thought I’d write a blog that reflected on what we saw and learnt last year. It’s split into two parts because I took LOADS of videos. So the ‘building blocks’ for success in Little Heath are still the same and still [...]

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Student voice through Twitter

Twitter’s an amazing resource for professional development for teachers. It’d be even better if students were on it talking about their school and education too. Here’s my idea.

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Newsletter 6: New awards, new training and new resources for the New Year

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.

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From school council noticeboards to progress boards

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.

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Newsletter 5: Citizenship under threat

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.

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School council training: collecting information

A short, practical session to help students look at the pros and cons of different ways of collecting views from across the school.

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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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3 lessons learned as a startup social enterprise

A few reflections on starting up our social enterprise. Not to suggest that we’ve had world-beating success or anything, but we’ve learned a few important things whilst building up this organisation round a set of ideas.

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Student voice policy – 5 quick tips

A friend asked for help writing a student voice policy at her school. My answer was 5 quick suggestions on how to create one. They’re all here.

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