A growing library of case studies of work with primary and secondary schools summarising the work either as a downloadable pdf or as a powerpoint presentation. Just click on the images to download the document:

Primary Schools:

Thomas Buxton Primary School – ‘Developing a Pupil Voice’ – this was a Tower Hamlets City Learning Centre project lead by HEC responding to the Headteacher’s concern over the working of his school council. Issues were about empowering the children through training and visits, and looking at ways of making the school council more inclusive. The outcome was a DVD launched at the House of Commons and City Hall. You can get copies from HEC.

Cayley Primary School – Fairtrade and social enterprise – as part of a DfID small grant work was done with Cayley Primary School Council on local democracy, Fairtrade, social enterprise and policy making. The children presented their work to two conferences, the London Schools Sustainability Network and the Fairtrade Foundation first school’s conference.

Mowlem Primary School – Campaigning for Road Safety – children using video and webpages to report and help them campaign for a safer road outside their school. You can see their work online at www.eastendtalking.org.uk under ‘Think about it’/’road safety’.

Christchurch Primary School – An Exploration of Democracy – the school wanted its KS2 students to have a week researching what democracy and children’s voice means. They had visits, experts coming to the school, workshops, interviews, assemblies… You can see their work online at www.eastendtalking.org.uk under ‘school councils’/’speakup! speakout!’.

Mayflower Primary School – Citizenship Ceremony – a year 4 class did a session on their identity as individuals, members of their communities, the school, Tower Hamlets and Britain. They then created speeches to celebrate their identity as British citizens in Tower Hamlets. The best seven were selected for use at a Citizenship Ceremony at Bow Registry Office. The class watched the ceremony, filmed it, took pictures and interviewed participants. Web pages with the children’s work have been created to support other schools repeating the project. You can see their work at www.global.lgfl.net under ‘webquests’/’primary’.

Secondary Schools:

Langdon Park, Morpeth and George Greens Schools - Human Rights Detectives – a DfID small grant project that got the children acting as detectives researching the human rights issues of different countries. They took part in mini-conferences with human rights experts, created human rights banners with Amnesty’s Dan Jones and a web quest was created so that all school could repeat the work. You can see their work and the webquest at www.global.lgfl.net under ‘webquests’/’secondary’.

George Green and feeder primary schools – Peer Training part 1 – as part of the Tower Hamlets Young People’s Plan George Green school and year councillors were trained to deliver a whole morning to the KS2 of a feeder primary school. There were two students per class, and they ran activities exploring children’s rights and school councils, after a whole school assembly on children’s rights. Second part to be uploaded soon.

St Pauls Way – Department for International Development White Paper – The school was invited to support the launch of the DfID’s White paper, with the then Minister Hilary Benn. In groups the children researched and then debated which areas of development, water, health, education, governance… should be funded and there was a vote. This is now a webquest for all schools to do that you can find at www.global.lgfl.net under ‘webquests’.