BBC School Report 2011

Members of the purple section of Notley’s Student Voice have joined forces with a local charity called  Hand in Hand in a project to support a rural school in Tanzania, Africa.

Hand in Hand has worked for some years developing community projects in Africa. They began construction of the school in Kiraracha, a remote village in Tanzania two year ago. They have completed 2 classrooms and this year added a third. They now intend to construct another classroom on an adjacent piece of land.

To raise funds for this project, we would like to collect old  mobile phones. The funds raised by the sale of the phones goes straight to the construction of the new classrooms.

So we would like to ask pupils, parents and staff of the school to bring in their old mobiles. They don’t have to work and they don’t have to have a charger. All purple reps have been tasked with the job of collecting them and bringing them to a central collection point is school.

We would like to collect as many phones as possible and make a positive contribution to a very worthwhile cause.

what colour do you need?

• Behaviour for learning- Making sure that people are not inaproppriate during lessons and their behaviour is not affecting other peoples behaviour
• Rewards and awards- By seeing how rewards and awards are being used, how they are going to be used and also to tell teachers what students have to do to gain rewards and awards
• Sanctions- Sanctions are punishments for wrong actions, sanctions can be, detentions(break, lunch and after school), phone call home, Letter home and EPR(Emergency Pupil Removal)
• Assessment for Learning- This is assessing how well people are doing in lessons to see if they need to be pushed on with their work or need easier work.
• Learning to Learn- Learning to learn is being taught different strategies to help you forward in learning and finding the right way to help you move on.
• Which type of learner am I?- Seeing how you like to learn, if you are visual( like to see things to be able to learn them and remember them), aural(Like listening to things to be able to learn them and to remember them) and Kinesthetic( Like to learn things by moving around and being active to learn stuff and to remember them)
• What makes for powerful learning experiences in class? What makes a successful lesson?- observing lessons to see how they are being taught and to find room for improvements which can be used as feed back for teachers.
• Teachers- giving teachers advice to improve theirs lessons and their style of teaching.
• Learners- giving them different styles of learning techniquesto find the right one for the class and individual students

Green Voice is doing the plot.

• Healthy Living
• P.E. ( exercise for life and SLA)
• Learning to Listen
• Citizenship
• Community Involvement
• Feeling Safe (peer counselling, anti-bullying, CHiPS and dealing with bullying)
• SEAL
• School attendance
• Treating others with Respect.

• Will be making a survival guide for New Year 7 pupils.
• Will be working towards a better canteen.
• Will be improving are website.
• Will be undertaking fundraising activities.
• Will be representing ideas to staff and site staff to help improve things presented by pupils.
• Will be making more community projects like silver surfers.
• Will be creating chips and student voice ties.
• Will be doing an Observation project.
• Will Review level ladders.
• Will develop Eco schools/Wilderness Project.
• Will create Recycling audits.

•         Made a charter for the whole school.

•         Trained all voice reps.

•         Trained student governors.

•         Worked with John Ray Eco Warriors.

•         Been involved in planning 6^th form building.

•         Presented to staff.

•         Took part in  public speaking competition.

•         Made a DVD shown to all primary schools.

•         Have a part in staff interviews.

•         Started gardening club and eco school project.

•         Rewards and awards recommendations.

•         Enterprise Money week bankers.

•         Hosted visiting schools training workshops.

•         Improved toilet facilities.

•         Painted the Quads.

•         Student Interviewers.

•         Appointed New Head and Deputy Head Boys and Girls.

•         Created Little Dudes reading scheme.

•         Been involved in planning 6^th form building.

•         Further developed CHIPS – Peer Listening