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Three ideas for getting your school council communicate more effectively with the rest of the school. This is the second of our quick tips videos from our young leaders at Northumberland Park Community School and Welbourne Primary School.
Here’s the first in our three videos to help you and your school councils. This one is about how you can make your school council meetings better at taking action and more fun.
My week of work experience What’s your name, how old are you and which school do you go to? Hi my name is Reyehl, and im 14 years old. The school i go to is Heartlands High School. I am here doing work experience. What are you studying at the moment? What do you enjoy […]
Here’s my second blog on my amazing journey with Smart School Councils… Firstly, I have made some really good friends. The two other young trainees- Emma and Margaret! We make a really good team, spending lots of time together to plan our sessions and supporting each other through the nerves and excitement we get from […]
I am just back from a great session at Risley Avenue school! I am celebrating giving my first ever training session that I delivered on my own. The two other fantastic trainees, Margaret and Gabbi helped out, but yes, that’s right, I went solo! Funnily enough, it was at a primary school that I already volunteer […]
Our exciting stop by stop mission across London to visit as many takeovers in one day…. Myself, Greg and Emma spent Takover day on an exciting stop-to-stop mission guided by the @SSCCTY twitter to travel across London (20 STOPS in total!) visiting three of the many organisations across the UK that hosted young people for the Children’s Commissioner’s […]
Opening Doors indeed at Tottenham Hotspur for Parliament Week The first day of Parliament Week was also my first day as a Young Trainee with the Smart School Councils Community (SSCC), so I was nervous and excited as it was also going to be my first day at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Tottenham Hotspur Foundation had very […]
I’m Gabbi, one of the Young Trainees at SSCC. It is my first day today and we have been very busy preparing for our Parliament Week event at Tottenham Hotspur Football Ground which I am very excited about!! Other than lots of planning and organising, I have been making Smart School Councils an Instagram page!! […]
Today Greg and I headed to the Electoral Commission to meet Rosemary Davenport, Senior Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer, and Warren Seddon, Head of Media and Public Affairs. The Electoral Commission helps to sign up as many voters as possible, and therefore keeping our country as well-represented as possible. Groups that are under-represented in terms […]
[quote author=”H. Hansford, Student Leadership Co-ordinator, Glebelands School”]Useful ideas, practical advice, chance to share good practice and discuss issues with other teachers.[/quote] Our primary school Masterclass is now full, but we still have places left on our secondary school course on Friday, 7th November at Lift, near Kings Cross in London. You’ll get to hear from […]