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We wanted to write a twitter policy to make sure we knew how to use twitter in the correct way. Greg and I thought of this idea together because when I first started to tweet I found it difficult to know what to say, and what style to say it in. I also wasn’t sure […]
Franklin, our 18 year old Community Apprentice, will be offering free school council taster workshops to schools in London. Here’s Franklin telling you a bit more about his plans: “It’s been really exciting putting this session together and it’s looking great! My aim is to help make primary school councils more powerful, inclusive and fun! […]
Get ready for Friday 21st November 2014! The Smart School Councils Community (SSCC) is really excited to take part in Takeover Day 2014. This is taking place on Friday 21st November, and we’ve saved the date in our calendar. The day is still a good […]
We’re really happy to announce that the Smart School Councils Community has now reached over 1,000 members. That’s 1,000 teachers and students from around 850 schools across the world. Most of them are in the UK, but we’re really excited to have schools from all over the world joining up to improve too. From the beginning, […]
We’re partnering with Parliament Week – you should too! Penny and Emily from the Houses of Parliament came and visited Greg and I (Franklin) on Monday 24th March to discuss a variety of opportunities and activities that Parliament’s Education Service have open in the future. One is called Parliament Week which takes place across the UK […]
Have a look at what we get up to. This fantastic event was planned and run by our great team of young volunteers from Haringey (and Barking and Dagenham). They trained over 100 school councillors from 9 Haringey and 1 Enfield primary schools. We’ll be seeing how they’ve got on with their projects this week […]
One of our members, Chloe Doherty, gave us this scheme of work she wrote for her year team a few years ago. She wanted to get class councils off the ground as she recognised without them the school and year councils didn’t really mean much. This resource has a series of lesson/session plans and a bundle […]
As part of my apprenticeship I visited the Houses of Parliament to spend the day with the Education Service which was fantastic! I learnt a huge amount about how Parliament works and what the Education Service do to spread this knowledge.Whilst I was at Parliament I came across a course for teachers, which I thought […]
I’m Shakir McClean, a Haringey resident and secondary school student who has been working with the SSCC since November 2013. In the last few months we have spent some time preparing for the pirate event by sharing our ideas, planning the day out and learning new ways to train primary school councillors. We have also […]