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Valuable School Council in Baverstock

Here's how Baverstock School, a school in in an area of significant social deprivation, engaged pupils in a valuable school council.

The main priorities were to develop knowledge and understanding of what it meant to be in a democratic school council and to increase whole school knowledge of democracy and voting. In addition, we wanted to develop pupil voice across the whole the school. This was intended to make the students feel that they had a voice and were able to make real differences in school.

As a result pupils are now playing an active role in school community and they feel they have a voice and that there’s value in expressing it. The issues and topics raised in the school council are now much more varied than the traditional topics of canteen, toilets and bike sheds! Around the school you often hear discussions about the School Council and the work that they are involved in.

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