Claim your funded place on Smart School Councils

Hello, good news! 👋🏼

Your MAT has purchased you a spot on the Smart School Councils programme for your school. Aren’t you lucky? 😀

We just need a few details from you to set up access to the website, and to book your Smart School Council launch. Please fill in the form below ⤵️

Need a hand? Email us at membership@smartschoolcouncils.org.uk

Why?

Every pupil should be involved in pupil voice. Used by 360 schools, the Smart School Council model gives you a simple, practical way to do this that is safe to use with class/year group bubbles.

What is Smart School Councils?

Our award-winning programme will help your school involve every voice, build engagement as a school community and develop leadership and teamwork skills.

It gives you a proven path to make running a school council easy and to save time. It provides evidence to directly address Ofsted requirements on the democracy element of British Values and SMSC.

What do you get?

  • Smart School Council Manual. This gives you a step by step process to embed the model.

  • Class Meeting Tool - our digital tool to involve everyone through class meetings

  • Live mini CPD sessions with our established teachers giving their views

  • Live Member Meet Ups twice a month on Facebook and YouTube Live

  • Guided group sessions to meet and support one another

  • Paired up with an established member in a school like your’s

  • Quick support from the Smart School Councils team

  • Badge for your school website

 
It has raised the whole profile of what democracy is and links well to our British values agenda. The weekly class meetings have become a real focus of the week and children are genuinely excited to hear the results
— Mandy Jarvis - Dovelands Primary, Leicester
Students are learning to take responsibility for their own learning, and also leading learning in their classes. They’re also becoming a lot more independent
— Mathew Rogers, Assistant Head - Burnage Academy for Boys