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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A few ideas on ways you can liven up your school council meetings (or any other meetings) and ensure that everyone gets a say.
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.
Questions school council interview panels might ask and some advice and guidance on how to deal with them.
Two primary schools explain how they have been engaging their pupils more deeply with their own learning and encouraging creativity.
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
