I thought this was interesting regarding the primary review stating that they planned to have a single enrollment date for all children.
Category: SchoolCouncilsUK-archive
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1172711
I know that we have had some contact with the Lewisham Young mayor and I think that it is really good that more people will get the opportunity to get involved. Also, I think it’s great that the importance of the views of young people are really being noticed and appreciated.
Daisy
ESRC – The youth of today: yobs or future leaders?
ESRC is the Economic and Social Research Council
It’s not that clear how one gets involved though.
Obviously very good to be getting young people actually discussing these issues, rather than just being the subject of them. Not clear whether there’s any scope for action to come out of it though. I guess the same could be said for most types of research though.
If possible we should try to get along to some of these.
Asher
www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/4165789.MP_observes_school_elections/
I thought this was a nice little story and it’s interesting that the elected pupils only serve for 6 months so make sure that more people get a chance to be involved.
Daisy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqgXbI1_o8
A really excellent, academic summary of how the process of actively engaging wih the world could/will enable us to tackle challenges like climate change.
Asher (but Jess G sent me this link originally)
It’s called Exploratree and it’s made by Futurelab:
I’ll be trying it out with school councils next time I’m running training.
Came across it through Twitter: http://twitter.com/parslad
If it seems useful it’s something we could suggest to people in our e-newsletter.
Asher