A School Council with real structure, real evidence and genuine inclusion. £199 for the year, whole school.
Reaches every class
No extra workload
Evidence that builds itself
Nothing to plan
Your School Council picks a question and the whole meeting comes with it: the slides, the debate pack, the video. Nothing to plan and nothing to print. Pupils run it, in every class.
The moment pupils vote you get a plain-English read on the themes and the ideas. That is learner participation, evidenced as it happens rather than written up afterwards.
"It gets too loud in the hall"
Year 4 pupil"We never get time to finish our food"
Year 3 pupil"Can we have a quiet table?"
Year 5 pupilEvery meeting is logged, so the evidence builds itself. When someone asks how you hear from every child, the answer is a dashboard rather than a folder. The programme was researched with UCL’s Institute of Education.
Typically the more able, the more confident and the more advantaged.
Who gets elected to a School Council. Our research with UCL’s Institute of Education.
School Councils often only hear from a small group. We build on the School Council you already have so that it reaches every voice: the quiet child, the pupil with additional support needs.
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We’ve emailed you a confirmation too, so you can pick this up whenever suits.
We are an education charity, and around 700 schools run this with us. I am holding 25 of these places, and if you email me about one, it will be me who replies.
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We want our children to be leaders of change. It's their school.
LTIt's fantastic. It develops lifelong skills of debate and speaking. So important for our pupils.
DAThere's no added workload. It's all resourced. That's the biggest barrier removed.
No. It gives your School Council lead a clear structure to run the year, with ready-made questions, debate packs and videos for every class meeting. Pupils lead the meetings; staff facilitate, they don't prep.
Every key stage, early years through primary and secondary, and SEN and special schools. The questions and format adapt to the class.
The platform stores no sensitive pupil data. It's GDPR-compliant and safeguarding-first.
No. £199 covers the whole school for the year, however many pupils and classes you have, and it includes the CPD session and a full year of membership.