A very interesting article by Gareth Long.
Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category
January12
Students Designing Their Learning?
September5
Welcome back to a new school year!
The summer seems to have simply sped by, and here we are, ready for a new school year!
We have a new catalogue for 2011/12 which can be downloaded by clicking on the link on the right hand side of our Home Page. Don’t forget that you can order 24/7 from our online shop at www.schoolcouncilshop.org
We have a fantastic new book available, which is great for reinforcing and explaining the effects of bullying – WS – from ‘Rear-Ender’ to ‘Slender Brenda’. The first 25 copies ordered will be signed by the author, Jane Cuff. If you are involving your School Council in writing or updating your Bullying Policy this would be a very useful book for them to read!
Do come back and check the site regularly because we have exciting developments planned for the next few months!
June24
Mobile Phones and Learning
Thanks to Twitter, we have been given some information by Shiplake College School Council on their suggestions as to how Mobile Phones can be used to enhance the learning process. Some really great ideas here!
If your School Council has some good ideas, do let us know so we can share them with other schools.
We are pleased that the Teaching Citizenship magazine has reviewed our new School Council Handbook for Primary Pupils.
However, we would like to clarify a few points!
This fantastic new handbook is a re-write and re-design of the old School Council Handbook for Primary Pupils. It has been brought up to date with current ideas and refreshed with new sections, illustrations and helpful Morphs!
IT DOES NOT REPLACE THE KS1 AND PRIMARY SCHOOL COUNCIL TOOLKITS.
Our Toolkits are designed for use by Teachers who are setting up and supporting School Councils within their school. These comprehensive books give advice and guidance for both Teacher and Pupil sessions covering ideas such as Circle Time, Charters of Behaviour, Peer Mediation, Writing an Agenda and even music for School Council songs.
The School Council Handbook for Primary Pupils has been designed to be given to each member of the School Council to help them understand and fulfil the important role they have been elected to. It gives advice on such areas as research, fundraising, issues and inclusion. The Handbook is not intended for use as a teaching tool within a citizenship lesson. It is a special Handbook aimed at helping each School Councillor work as part of a team to assist their School Council be the best channel possible for Pupil Voice within their school.
We are very exciting to have been able to add a new category to our online shop – FUNDRAISING. This category will feature products that your School Council can purchase in order to re-sell within the school (to students, staff, parents, etc). Not only will this encourage all those budding entrepreneurs, but will also help fund anything the School Council want to do.
The first of what we hope will be a wide variety of products has been uploaded today, so do click on the link and take a look! [Here is a sneak preview]
Welcome back to a new term! After so many Bank Holidays I don’t know if we feel rested, or just completely out of routine! In many ways it will be good for life to get back to normal.
To encourage your School Councils in the excellent work I know they do, we have a SPECIAL OFFER for you! Every order for resources over £50 (excluding VAT and P&P) will have a FREE primary or secondary DVD added to it. Just place your order as usual (by fax, phone or in our online shop) and your DVD will automatically be included.
The Primary DVD – “Safe and Sorted” presents the achievements of two primary schools in very different circumstances. It focuses on the involvement of all pupils in the council through class meetings.
The Secondary DVD – “Voices of Reason” presents the achievements of Lipson Community College, examining the effects of the School Council on pupils, staff, governors and the community. The TES descibes it as “a genuinely uplifting case study”.
This is a time-limited offer, so why not check your resources now and order whilst you can get this FREE offer!
I hope that everyone is enjoying a great Easter break. The sun is shining here and we have our summer clothes out of last year’s mothballs! The forecast is good for the bank holiday weekend, so time to relax and enjoy the warmth.
Whilst you are all on holiday and relaxing, we are still working away, coming up with new ideas and new resources to help you and your School Council!
We reviewed the badges we sell, and could find no reason why the metal enamelled School Council badges were only available in 3 colours, whilst the Year Council badges are available in 4 colours. In our experience, many schools have at least four Houses or Communities and often those groups are represented by Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. So…. we decided it was about time to add YELLOW SCHOOL COUNCIL ENAMELLED BADGES to our stock.
Do visit our shop by clicking on the link, or give us a call on 0845 456 9428 to place your order!
