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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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Student voice in your SOLE

Sugatra Mitra’s SOLE project is an exciting one for learning in all kinds of ways, here’s how you could use it for student voice.

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Tips for chairing meetings

A list of tips for anyone running a meeting. Something I came up with for the co-chairs of Haringey Youth Council.

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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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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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Broadening the scope of meetings

If your school council meetings get stuck on specific issues here’s a way to ensure they cover a range of issues.

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Improving meetings and other ideas

A simple idea to overcome the issue of students not having the skills to run meetings themselves.

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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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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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