Student Voice
Student voice is intended to empower students, enabling them to be more engaged and involved in the learning process, thus helping teachers raise standards and meet the needs of individual learners.
We support approaches to teaching and learning that encourage learners to take greater responsibility for their own progress and achievement, engage in constructive dialogue with teachers and give them the skills and abilities necessary to develop the ability to learn with greater independence.
The effectiveness of the active and positive engagement of students depends upon students developing an awareness of their responsibilities in addition to their rights.
These responsibilities include learners' understanding:
- the extent to which they are personally responsible for their own learning;
- the impact their behaviour and general conduct can have on themselves, their peers and teachers and other adults who form part of the school community; and
- how the legitimate rights of all members of the school community can only be secured by each person acknowledging and undertaking their own responsibilities and obligations.
We encourage our students to involve themselves fully in the life of the school, sharing their views through House and Student Councils. We regularly survey learners' views and seek to respond to them. We consult students on matters of school development.
SPEAK UP! is our student magazine, produced weekly by our editiorial team of students.
