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School Councils UK is mentioned in the Youth Citizenship Commission

Asher and I  went to the launch of the Youth Citizenship Commission’s Report in Westminster today. It was great to hear people talk about the value of school councils alongside class councils.  The commissioners really understood the value of pupil voice and effective  school councils, it was clearly expressed that pupil voice has to be respected and the young people involved need to be given real power in the school decision-making processes, otherwise the work can be disillusioning do more damage than good.

There was also a big mention for the School Council Standard, which is a project we are working on getting funding for at the moment – so a good morning for School Councils.  It’ll be interesting to see what the Government does the Comission’s findings.

Vicky

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Manifesto for Change, ESSA's national video competition

I’ve just got back from the launch of the English Secondary Students’ Association’s (ESSA) new project, ‘Manifesto for Change’.  It’s a campaign in the form of a competition.  The idea is to collect together the thoughts and views of young people aged 11-19 and form these into  Manifesto for Education. ESSA are asking people to make  short videos on any subject they feel strongly about and the best and most thought-provoking ones will be shown on Channel 4 (one of the sponsors of the scheme). Videos should focus on the (broad) categories of:

  • Teaching and learning
  • Where we learn
  • Enjoying education
  • Student voice and leadership
  • Future of education

All entries need to be in by the 18th of June.  There are more details here: www.studentvoice.tv

The launch itself was a pleasant event, held at Portcullis House, which, despite externally being one of the ugliest buildings in London is a actually very nice inside.  Natascha Engel MP hosted the event and seems to genuinely have a strong interest in young people’s rights and democracy, I guess that’s why she’s involved with UKYP and the BYC.

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Interesting events for young people

http://sn.im/esrcyouth

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

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Healthy School Food event (Wesminster Education Forum)

I went to this forum last week which was very interesting. A full transcript of all the sessions can be found under External Relations\Westminster Education Forum\Healthy School Food 250908 transcript (the password to access this is in brackets). However, in the meantime, there are a number of contacts that I think we need to follow up:

Merton Schools
Useful for case study or article about changes that can be made around food issues
Food for Life Partnership (Soil Association)
Emma Noble, Director wants to have a meeting to discuss further working
Great Grub Club
Website designed for 4-7 year olds

Olivia

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Technology and participation

I’m going to be facilitating this seminar, it looks pretty interesting:

The Learner Voice and Technology workshop will be held on Tuesday 26th February at the Futurelab Offices in Bristol. http://www.futurelab.org.uk/about_us/contact_location

The workshop aims to explore the potential of technology to engage learner voice in the primary, secondary and FE/HE sectors.

We will take as our starting point the methods already being used across these sectors with and without technology.

To help get a feel for this event I would read our Handbook on Learner Voice that we completed 2 years ago… http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/learner_voice.pdf

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BETT: Anti-bullying software for London students

Some 2,600 schools in London are set to get e-safety software though the London Grid for Learning (ITPro reports).

Online and computer safety software is set to help protect a million London students from inappropriate content and cyber-bullying.

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a group of 33 local authorities which provides a common learning platform to schools, announced at the BETT conference in London today
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Mark

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