Solutions to a number of common school council problems including giving feedback, support from colleagues and meetings that have gone flat.I posted yesterday about a number of student voice ideas and issues that came up at a training session I ran recently. It seemed a bit remiss to leave those issues just hanging there, we are in the business of (helping you) solve those kinds of problems after all. Luckily I took some photos last week at the training I ran for Wolverhampton’s primary school council co-ordinators where we were looking at what solutions they might use for just some of these problems.
Apologies for the rather garish colours but they actually make the images more readable (honestly). If any of them are too small to read, click on them and you’ll be able to see a larger version. These are the issues we looked at:
- What can we do if our meetings have gone flat?
- What can I do if I’m not getting the support I need from senior staff (e.g. given time and resources to run things)?
- Things have gone well this year, how do we make sure we don’t lose that?
- What can we do if class teachers don’t give reps time to feedback?
- The people on the school council aren’t great at getting things done, what can we do?
- What can I do if other staff in the school don’t give the school council the importance it deserves/needs?
