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Name of Contact: | Richard Wallace, Assistant Headteacher | Contact details: | Barclay School, Walkern Road, Stevenage, Herts, SG1 3RB | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Relatively new | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | School Council
Inducting students as observers of lessons to improve teaching and learning
Consulting new students (year 7) about life at break and lunchtimes | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Students as observers |
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Name of Contact: | Gill Pyatt (Head) | Contact details: | Barnwood Park School, St Lawrence Road, Gloucester, GL4 3QU email: Head@barnwood-park.demon.co.uk | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Gained my own Masters degree by pure research in 1985 based on pupil consultation. Subsequently undertake small research project in my own school or in collaboration with other local schools. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | 1. Learning Support Unit: Why pupils referred (internally), what, why, how, when - of subsequent happenings and return to main school classes again. 2. Researching mentoring project involving my own pupils in Y7 and girls in Y12 of local girls' grammar school. [Single gender because of multicultural mix of pupils.] | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | 1. Either 1 or 2 above. 2. Motivating/facilitating/sustaining self-study with Y9 able pupils. |
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Name of Contact: | Mike Chandler | Contact details: | Boundstone Community College, Lancing, West Sussex, BN15 9QZ
tel: 01903 755894
fax: 01903 755848 | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Moderately experienced. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Developing Schools Councils. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Joint Research Projects - small scale and experimental.
Comparing and sharing experience - particularly in seeking to intervene/shape aspects of school culture. |
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Name of Contact: | Margaret Leverett | Contact details: | Brampton Junior School
tel: 01480 375063
m.leverett@Bramptonjun.cambs-schools.net | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | School council established for five years.
Class councils.
Pupil consultation about self-evaluation.
Good school, good teachers. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Pupil feedback to help improve learning and thinking skills. |
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Name of Contact: | Dr Andrew Cambell, Vice Principal | Contact details: | Brooke Weston CTC, Coomb Road, Corby, Northants, NN18 8LA
tel: 01536 396366
email: acampbell@bwctc.northants.sch.uk | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Experienced - an ethos based on partnership has been a defining feature of the College for a number of years. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Student reviews and evaluation of :
web-based learning resources in some subjects, especially music and IT;
quality of IT support service as experienced by students;
6th form questionnaires on all aspects of post-16 provision;
8 week cycle of reporting and soliciting student comments. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Online resources for curriculum delivery.
Multicultural links. |
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Name of Contact: | Judy Durrant | Contact details: | JudyDurrant@compuserve.com CELSI (Centre for Education Leadership and School Improvement, Canterbury Christ Church University College), Broomhills, Salomons, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3 0TG 01892 507763 | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | It has been a recurring theme in our support of teachers' school-based research and development work and there is much interest amongst teachers and within our organisation. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Wide range of different teacher-led development projects/research that often have an element of consulting pupils about teaching and learning. Teachers' network (CANTARNET):termly journalreports on these projects, also termly conferences in which issues are raised and research is discussed. www.cant.ac.uk/depts/acad/teached/cantarnet/cantarnet.htm | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Hearing about projects in other areas. Conferences etc to discuss this theme. Maybe individual links with members of our network whose work has particular emphasis on consulting and working with pupils. |
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Name of Contact: | Tom Jackson | Contact details: | tee-jay41@hotmail.com Uplands Community College, Wadhurst, East Sussex, TN5 6BA | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Approaching the end of the second year of SV/SAR | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Teaching and Learning in the Sixth Form Image of the School School Environment Uniform | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Teaching and Learning issues Being successful with Student Voice / Students as Researchers |
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Name of Contact: | Mary Martin | Contact details: | mmartin@comberton.cambs.sch.uk | Level of experience in pupil consultation: |  | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | 2 forms - "Bystander" bullying project (Cambridge University). Yr 10 pupils (12) trained to observe lessons and give feedback to ITT students Evaluations of "single sex" classes in Yr 9 Various projects where pupils are asked about their learning | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | |
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Name of Contact: | Val Dagley | Contact details: | Cromer High School, Norwich Road, Cromer, E Norfolk, NR27 0EX v.dagley@tesco.net | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Some experience | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | A case study of target setting for supporting students' learning based on interviews with 10 KS3 students. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Other investigations of target setting Research with Key Stage 3 students Research by a member of a Senior Management Team in their own school. |
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Name of Contact: | Scott Milne | Contact details: | Digital Media Access Group, Department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN Tel: 01382 34084; Fax: 01382 345509; email: smilne@computing.dundee.ac.uk | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Our Group has experience in involving pupils in the design of software (child-centred design) | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | We are working with Fife Council Education Board to produce a computer-based pupil consultation system. This will involve gaining feedback from pupils about their likes/dislikes with regards to current consultation methods and with regards to computer interfaces in general, before bringing the two together. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | We are keen to collaborate with any groups or individuals involved in working with children and technology. |
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Name of Contact: | David Leat, TLF Regional Director | Contact details: | Eastern Cherryburn, Mickley Square, Stocksfield NE43 7DB | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Reasonable experience personally - have interviewed many pupils using stimulated recall and helped many teachers use interviews, questionnaires and pupil learning logs. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | As TLF (KS3) Regional Director, I work with four pilot LEAs/Consultants, each with 10/12 pilot schools with two pilot departments. These departments are doing developmental projects mainly in areas of questioning, teaching thinking and AFL. As yet relatively few are using pupil consultation but it is a recommended strategy in pilot materials. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | 1) Issues in interviewing
2) Connecting outcomes of consultation to pedagogy and teachers' planning and pedagogical knowledge
3) Accessing low achieving pupils' views/feelings |
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Name of Contact: | Mr Ian Bott | Contact details: | Fulwood High School, Black Bull Lane, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire. PR2 9YR | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Reasonably! Personally through NPQH and school self-evaluation training. Our school - see below:- | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Lancashire LEA Value-added project (well established) including teacher and student questionnaires annually. LEA LIstening Schools Initiative Pilot School, wide-ranging school and community consultation recently conducted. School target-setting includes personal reviews by pupils. School council consultations. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Information related to raising boys' achievement, particularly strategies, research findings. |
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Name of Contact: | David Gimson | Contact details: | Wheatley Park School, Holton, Oxford, OX33 1QY Tel: 01865 872441 (school); email: Dave.Gimson@care4free.net | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Fairly new but interested | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Conference for Sixth Formers - their responses to AS. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Post-16 Using citizenship education as a means of developing pupil voice in school. |
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Name of Contact: | Lynn Kennington | Contact details: | Gamesley Early Excellence Centre,Winster Mews, Gamesley, GLOSSOP, Derbyshire, SK13 0LU | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | We have children here between 0-5 years. We consult with parents about their development and share planning. We give parents home/school links to help them to become part of their children's education. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Parent consultation - every parent attends. Plans are made with the parent. Assessments are shared.
Home/school links - games, toys, books, reading, words, listening library etc. - in order to encourage parents to become part of their children's education and development at home.
Group work - Currently piloting new programme from Basic Skills Agency for parents of 0-3 year olds.
Family literacy - Books for Babies, Better Reading Partnership, writing boxes, story sacks, (All Read On - Write Away initiatives). | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Any innovative early years work in this field. |
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Name of Contact: | Ian Mittell | Contact details: | Noadswood School, North Road, Dibden, Purlieu, Southampton, SO45 4ZF.
tel: 02380 840025
ianmittell@yahoo.com | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | We have used the Keele approach for some years. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Looking at how we might improve the performance of boys by talking with them about how they feel we could be more effective. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | 1) Improving boys' performance
2) Developing a learning programme for Yr 10 & 11 students which will ensure success at GCSEs for a very large majority (90% A* - C). |
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Name of Contact: | Derry Hannam, Project Director | Contact details: | Phoenix Edn. Trust, 7 Newtown Road, Warsash, Southampton, SO31 9FY | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Derry Hannam - very! - practitioner, trainer, researcher.
Phoenix Edn.Trust - student participation is rationale/raison d'etre of Trust. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Collecting/collating/exploring good practice in UK State and Independent sectors and internationally - networking, bridge-building, collaborating.
Committed to development of ESSA (English School Students Association) and fostering international links with other national and international organizations. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Any relevant. |
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Name of Contact: | John Stratton | Contact details: | Priory School, Mountfield Road, Lewes, East Sussex Tel: 01273 476231 Fax: 01273 486922 email: js@priory.e-sussex.sch.uk | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | We have, during the last 18 months, conducted a series of interviews with students about teaching effectiveness. Some staff have also given students questionnaires about their teaching effectiveness. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | At present we have a working group of 10 teachers who, during the course of this term will be interviewing students on issues ranging from homework workload to rewards and sanctions. These findings will be presented to all staff and hopefully help to inform changes in some areas. I am also using a questionnaire I have devised to gain student feedback on my teaching effectiveness. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | I would value any sharing of approaches schools and colleges have used in this area. I would be willing to discuss possible collaboration with schools in the area. |
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Name of Contact: | Tom Hill | Contact details: | Sandringham School, The Ridgeway, St Albans, AL4 9NX
Fax: 01727 759241
Tel: 01727 759240 | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Over the past three years, a School Self Evaluation Group has been using student consultation to guide our work. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Using a sixth form focus group, teaching and learning was evaluated across the sixth form.This group then reported to staff who proceeded to redesign schemes of work at KS5 taking into account their findings. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Our focus for this year is KS3. We would welcome ideas on how to effectively use student consultation in this area of the curriculum. |
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Name of Contact: | Hilary Jones | Contact details: | stcyres@btconnect.com | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | Inexperienced | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Recently submitted application form - Project 6: developing pupil feedback.
Year councils have been operating for one year. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Pupil self-assesment; pupil feedback; developing year councils. |
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Name of Contact: | Dot Todhunter / Sulan Goodwin | Contact details: | Thameside Infant School, Manor Road, Grays, RM17 6EF Essex Tel: 01375 372188, Fax 01375 394735 email: headteacher@thamesideinfant.thurrock.sch.uk | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | We have a history of interest in seeking children's views and working collaboratively with children and their families. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Currently interested in home/family learning and extending homework opportunities. This term ran a series of successful workshops in 'learning to cut' - the importance of learning scissor skills. Each family given a pack, followed by small projects to be completed at home and celebrated in school. Also developing skills to help children focus on a question and articulate their views clearly eg. in circle time structuring the first part of a sentence to support every child in making a contribution. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | Would love to share successful home learning strategies with others. Would like to do more work on developing parenting skills in a sensitive way (we have a lot of very young mums with low expectations of education). |
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Name of Contact: | Marcus Priestley, Depuy Headteacher | Contact details: | Thomas Bennett Community College, Ashdown Drive, Tilgate, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 5AD | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | I am entirely new to this school and I have no great experience in student consultation processes. | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | The school does have a student council, with representatives from each tutor group and year. The school also undertakes annually the Keele attitude survey. I have just started working with an AIS colleague on a major consultation exercise with members of the sixth form. | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | I would be very interested in data from sixth form consultations in particular, but am keen to learn and be involved more generally. |
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Name of Contact: | Alison Peacock | Contact details: | alison.peacock@virgin.net Wheatcroft School, Stansted Road, Hertford 01992 587899 | Level of experience in pupil consultation: | 2 yr involvement in Project 4 - students as co-researchers | Current areas of involvement in pupil consultation: | Our primary school holds weekly Pupil Voice Circle meetings with mixed aged groups 4-11. All staff lead circle meetings and all children participate. Yr 6 students minute discussion and feedback to the group the following week. Decisions are thus made as a whole school and we are still learning but this has exciting potential! | Areas in which collaboration with others would be welcomed: | I should be very interested to hear from other colleagues working with young children particularly KS1 and Foundation |
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