eMentoring Year 7s can answer questions from Year 6s by email to help with the transition from primary to secondary school.
Involvement dat abase
Set up a simple database to track which pupils are involved in which activities. Great for monitoring and for personal statements.
Subject councils
Sports councils work really well in many schools, why not have other subject councils help run clubs and talk about the curriculum?
re-invigor
School council surgery
Set a day of the week when members of the school council will be available in the same room, so anyone can come to talk to them about anything they want to change in the school.
your pupil voice r Student newslette Get pupils involved in journalism, writing about what they think is important to them. A blog or pages in the school’s newsletter would work really well too and might be easier.
Action groups For each project you want to do, set up an Action Group reporting to the school council. Let people volunteer themselves on to it. You’ll get more people involved (and it sounds a lot better than ‘sub-committee’).
Student research group
Train up a group of students as researchers. Allow staff and the school council to commission them to carry out research projects, particularly gathering students’ views.
Overlap positio ns
Have terms of office for your school council, year councils, action groups, etc. overlap so that new representatives can shadow the old ones.
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