Student Voice 2018-2019

Connecting Students

We offer activities that aim to nurture aspirations. By harnessing the student voice, the partnership offers a chance to develop aptitudes for leadership and teamwork and to hone communication skills.

One of the key aims of SSLP is to harness student voice by offering young people a chance to interact, and to develop their teamwork, communication and leadership skills. This year we invited students to create a publication which reflects a diversity of opinion and experience on a given issue, that can be used both within and between our schools.

Independent-minded, self-sufficient students from years 8, 10 and 12 met throughout the spring and summer terms representing ten of our schools.

At their first session they explored different issues that were important to them all, before a secret vote chose the Perception of Youth as their topic.

Each school took responsibility for a different feature; be it an opinion piece, an interview or a survey. At subsequent sessions they worked together to edit and harmonise the various features.

By September the group had a finished publication. They presented this to their own schools.

Thank you to Ark Globe Academy for hosting and organising all the student voice sessions.