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Partnership Council
Headington Partnership has established a Partnership Council, comprising the Chair and Vice-Chair of each of the 5 individual School Councils, with some adults on hand to add advice and information. The purpose is to share and gather information about successes and issues that affect the young people in all the local schools and, where possible, to propose solutions. The Chair and Secretary’s role are taken by students from Cheney but they may eventually train the younger Councillors.
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Partnership Student Council Training
On Friday 15 October 2010, nearly all the student councillors from the partnership - 65 young people - spent a training day together at Hill End Outdoor Centre, near Farmoor. Facilitated by Jenny Smith and Karen Errington from the Healthy Oxfordshire School Team (HOST), they undertook cooperative, team building challenges; learned skills for managing meetings and discussed how their ‘pupil voice’ role can be extended in their school. They also produceed a powerpoint presentation to take back to their schools and contribute ideas to the working of the Partnership Council. It was a busy day!
Partnership Councillors attended the first Oxfordshire Children's Parliament, held at County Hall on 10 November 2010, linked with national Takeover Day. It was organised by the Oxfordshire Youth Parliament and entitled ‘If I ruled the world’ Groups worked together to put forward their own ideas for changes in national or local policy and legislation; these were presented in speeches to all, including leading County Councillors, in the Council chamber. The children voted electronically, with the 'winning' proposal being that animals and wildlife should be better protected, followed by the idea of holding a national or county wide schools’ charity event
The Oxfordshire Student Voice conference 'Listening to the learners' was held at St Gregory the Great School on 24 November 2010: we enjoyed hearing about what other school councils are doing, including Windmill School's LAW (Learning at Windmill) group; we also enjoyed the physical activities between the talking! |
Conference 'Safeguarding children, young people and staff in a digital world' Milton Hill House, Didcot on 28 February 2011.
A representative team of our Partnership Councillors presented the Charter and then supported groups of teachers in their discussions about its implications for their work. |
Partnership Council meeting 18 July 2011
This was the first meeting since February but unfortunately it was an inconvenient date for most schools. However, 4 Councillors from St Andrew's School had a useful discussion with Jenny Smith, about the Cyber safety charter we helped to devise for the teachers' conference in March 2011 and the student Cyber safety conference to be held 10 February 2012, with which we will be involved.
Dylan & Shania had been with Lesley Williams to a planning meeting in June for the second Oxfordshire Children's Parliament in Take-over Week in early November and will continue to be on the organising group.
We looked again at the terms of reference for the Partnership Council and decided they are too wordy - we will simplify them.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday 28 September at Cheney and will hopefully be activity based, planned by Cheney students.
Partnership Council meeting 1 February 2011
There was further work on the charter for cyber and mobile phone safety and plans for the presentation of the conference. Jenny Smith requested illustrations for the border of the charter.
Draft 'Terms of reference' for the Council were discussed with the aim of everyone knowing why they are there! Further work is needed on those, to make them more young person friendly.
Cheney Councillors still have not visited their link schools; we talked further about what the visits might involve - lesson sharing; reading/telling stories outdoors; an art project; lunchtime clubs; coordinating votes for the Smarties book prize.
Partnership Council meeting 8 December 2010
Councillors reviewed the events they had attended during the term and what they had learned from them. With Jenny Smith (HOST) they began work on a charter for cyber and mobile phone safety, to be presented at a teachers' conference in February 2011.
Report from June 2010 meeting
Primary School representatives had a chance to meet their Cheney College link members; conversations were enthusiastic! Obviously there may well be changes in representation in September.
Most of the meeting was spent with Jenny Smith (HOST) collecting information for the Cyber Safety conference, which has been deferred until later in the school year.
Plans are underway for HOST training for all Primary school staff in order to establish class councils, which will feed into the school council, which will impact on the partnership council!
There will also be a training day in October for all the student councillors in the partnership.
Report from March 2010 meeting
Each College at Cheney now has a linked partnership school. The next Partnership Council meeting will be held at Cheney so the College Captains can meet their school’s councillors and plan how to move the link forward.
The cast of ‘Animals!’ was congratulated, as was a member of Cheney Anti-bullying Council who spoke at the performance for parents and governors about the work that is done in Cheney to address bullying.
Following discussion about Cyber Safety, the Council has been commissioned by HOST (Healthy Oxfordshire Schools Team) to organise and run a conference in September at the Kassam Stadium, for young people and school staff, on the issue.
Councillors were invited to be part of the interview process for new School Nurses.
There will be a team building and training day for next year’s Partnership Council members. |
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