Daisy
Tag: School councils in the news
It talks a lot about pupils as observers, but pulls in everything really. Would be useful for ‘school councils in the news’ section.
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007557
Asher
Ofsted have just produced a report on successful strategies for taking schools out of special measures, it contains some strong words about pupil participation:
Pupils and students’ greater engagement in school life had a significant influence on improving outcomes in almost all of the schools surveyed.
…
Establishing and keeping high profile a school council, an open forum
or a house system were all successful approaches to giving expression to the
pupils’ voice.…
Increasing levels of participation had measurable benefits in all the schools.
It then goes on to specify what those measurable gains were, very useful stuff. The full report is here: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/070221
Asher
By Staff Copy
RECYCLING ideas have been top of the curriculum for pupils of Longman’s Hill Primary this week.
Teachers and students at the Selby school have spent time researching and collecting data about recycling, and even making their own clothes from recycled materials before performing their own in-house fashion show.
Now on VBlog.
Earlier edit:
TEENAGERS got to see South Shields MP and foreign secretary David Miliband at his place of work.
A group of nine Mortimer Community College students visited the House of Commons in a recent trip to the capital. Link
Mark