Your election, giving you everything you need to start
Plan it
Method and date chosen. The big day: Friday 11 September
Announce it
Assembly slides and posters, ready to print
Get people to apply
Application forms, done for you
The big day
Ballot papers and a counting sheet
Share the news and celebrate
Certificates for every new councillor
Pupils run the meetings, nothing for staff to prep
- No prep for staff
- All meetings organised for you
- Minutes generated automatically
- Let pupils lead
More voices involved, through class meetings
How can we show kindness in our school community?
Borrowed from the question bank. Asked by 228 schools
✅ 9 of 12 classes have held their meeting, Reception to Year 6
Insights, the moment classes vote
A regular temperature check of pupils' views, across every class.
"It gets too loud in the hall"
Year 9 pupil"We never get time to finish our food"
Year 7 pupil
Your pupil-voice story, ready to show automatically
132
class meetings held this term
Every class
taking part, Reception to Year 6
Who met, what they said, what changed. Written up as you go.
A better type of school council, run by pupils, hearing every child. An all-in-one programme with the tools, training and community to run it.
Coming up, live
Live sessions all term. Grab a seat and we will send you the link.
Welcome to Smart School Councils 26/27
Smart School Council Masterclass
How to Run Your First Class Meeting
Save me a seat
Whatever your role, getting young people heard
Headteachers
Whole-school pupil voice, with the evidence for inspection.
See how it works → 🙋School council leads
Ready-to-run meetings your pupils lead themselves.
See how it works → 💬Oracy leads
Speaking and listening, built into the school routine.
See how it works → 🏫MAT leaders
Every school's pupil voice, in one place.
See how it works →Real teachers, in their own words
"They designed a railway and won first place, all through school council."
Hannah Jarman · SEND school, Wolverhampton
"It's their school. It's not my school, it's theirs."
Damien Cresswell · Associate Head, Keys Group
"He's gone on to college, and he pins it on talking."
Danny Hart · Head of Literacy, SEMH
"That's democracy, you know?"
Rachel Gray · Year 4 Teacher
"We're in this together, and everyone's voices are important."
Louise Russell · PSHE lead, international school
"A school is not a school without children. It is their school."
Lisa Taylor · Headteacher, Halling
Loved by pupils, teachers, heads and MATs
It's brilliant. A far better and simpler way to run student voice and build confidence.
BEOur visually impaired pupils love this. It's learning how to debate, but without the stuffiness.
COOur students can now record their voice easily, and I can get them thinking more critically with tough but insightful debate topics. Thank you, Smart School Councils!
A great way to promote pupil voice. Children can air their views in a fun, engaging way.
DVA great way to help young people build their voices and make change.
PHSmart School Councils are great. Anybody who sees it in action can only be inspired.
ACWhat the team are doing is a powerful demonstration of what's possible everywhere, when people, even children as young as four, are given a real chance to make their voices heard.
It's fantastic. It develops lifelong skills of debate and speaking. So important for our pupils.
DAWe want our children to be leaders of change. It's their school.
LT
Every child deserves a voice, not just a few.
We're a registered charity improving the old school council model, which only gets a small number of voices involved and is hard to run, so every child can speak up and make change.