Presentation delivered by Greg Sanderson and Asher Jacobsberg of involver in Prague

1. School
councils
in the UK
Asher Jacobsberg and Greg Sanderson
Prague, Czech Republic
Tuesday 31 January 2012

2. Let’s keep this simple..
Why?
How many?
What?
Outputs?
Who is involved?
When?
Case study
Obstacles?
Your questions

3. Why do schools do it?
Regulation = the law + inspectors
Management = helping the
school to run smoothly. Students
Management
Regulation
tool as customers.
Citizenship = building a better
Personal society.
Better
developm
citizenship
ent Personal development = helping
young people to grow. Leadership
and team-building.

4. How many?
Greg
grew up
here.
Asher
grew up
here.
Our office

5. What do school councils
do?
School improvement:
School environment and rules
Example: Wall displays
Relationships in the school:
Behaviour policy
Appointing teachers
Teaching and learning:
Lesson observations
Events and Fundraising:
Running events
Raising money for charity
Working with School Governors

6. Who is involved?
Meet
School council
monthly
Year council 1 Year council 2
Meet
weekly or
fortnightly
Form council 1 Form council 2 Form council 1 Form council 2 Meet 2/3
times a
week

8. Outputs of
good school councils
Improving learning: more challenging, flexible and fun
Improving quality of teaching
Improving behaviour; reducing number of exclusions and incidents
Improving relationships for all
Reducing vandalism
Reducing rate of NEETS
Improving Ofsted rating
Improving SATs/GCSE attainment
Better school policies
Wider range of extra-curricular activities

9. Obstacles

10. Obstacle 1:

11. Obstacle 2:

12. Obstacle 3:

13. Obstacle 4:
REPRESENTATION

14. Obstacle 5:

15. Obstacle 6:
Teachers vs pupils

16. Obstacle 7:

17. Obstacle 8:

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