- Pupils explore mechanisms for maintaining communication between those who are elected to the student council and other pupils, eg noticeboards, newsletters, websites, discussion forums, assemblies and other presentations, 'surgeries', debates, a suggestion box. What else should the student council get involved with, eg community events (volunteering, fund-raising for a particular charity), organising school conferences on particular issues. Pupils feed back their suggestions to the student council through their elected representative. They investigate how the council interacts with other related communities, eg school governors, other schools, the local council, local community bodies, and how they can be involved in resulting activities.
- Ask pupils to reflect, individually and in small groups, on how they can participate more effectively in class/year group/school forums. They could also consider how to get more out of other meetings, such as form meetings, eg how to raise issues for discussion, how to take discussion forward. What relevant skills do they have? What skills do they need to develop further?
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- are aware of different ways of communicating within the school, and identify their own skills and development needs
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