1 November

Sir Ian McKellan Visits Learn to lead Equalities Team

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Sir Ian Mckellan has been so impressed with the work of the Learn to lead equalities team at Chew Valley, a Performing Arts College in Bristol, he tweeted so! He visited Chew Valley School to learn about the work they had been doing in promoting human rights, opposing bullying and in particular challenging homophobic language […]

20 October

The Chicken Team Win National Award !

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“The Chicken Team were the first Cherwell team to have Learn to lead training as they were an established group, The skills they have learnt are immeasurable – all students involved have grown in confidence and the team work has been fantastic. At the first full meeting this academic year 40+ new members came to […]

16 October

An Education Worth Having

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Whole Education are holding their 5th Annual Conference on the 18th & 19th of November, Kings Place London – “An Education Worth Having” with John Hattie. Licensed Learn to lead Schools are being offered a 20% discount. Click here For further information.

1 October

Pupil Voice at Sunnyhill Primary School

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Learn to lead School Sunnyhill Primary School have the children at the centre of what they do and provide. “We actively encourage them to be involved in the development of the school, to make their voices heard. We are committed to ensuring that children’s views are not just listened to but acted upon. Our aim […]

1 October

involved in the policy and practice of teaching in a co-operative school ?

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Co-operative Values influencing Teaching & Learning in a Co-operative School: Bristol conference Our CEO, Susan Piers-Mantell will be speaking at The South West branch of the Schools Co-operative Society at Sir Bernard Lovell School, Oldland Common, Bristol on Thursday 23 October. The conference is aimed at all those involved in the policy and practice of […]

30 September

Primary School “Parley”

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Marlborough Primary in Falmouth recently completed a bespoke training day for their primary teachers. Following this the children have had a Parliament ‘parley’ session. And they are now currently assigning the working parties such as website team; dining room; school cook book; school flag; charity; fun teams etc “The three parley sessions we’ve had have […]

7 September

St Anne’s Catholic School Evaluates Learn to lead after their first year.

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St Anne’s Catholic School, a secondary and sixth form School in Southampton, evaluate their involvement with the Learn to lead programme. By the end of the first year they had 5 teams made up of 54 students. All teams have had the Learn to Lead training and have started on the road to meeting their […]

16 July

Michael Eavis Presents Learn to lead Gold Award

  Well done Critchill School on your Gold Award status, Here is Tony holding the award with Bethia from Critchill with Michael Eavis. Thank you to Amy Johnson in the background who created the award for us from the Blue School.

1 July

National leaders for student voice

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On Thursday the 19th June, Professor Chris Woods was speaking at a Somerset Secondary Heads conference about the London Challenge and recognised Blue School – origin of Learn to lead as “national leaders for student voice” .  Amongst other themes around participation, much needed conversations are being had about developing relationships between rural and city schools, […]

12 June

Congratulations to Critchill School who receive Learn to lead Gold Award !

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Critchill School are pleased to announce that they are the first special school to be awarded Learn to Lead Gold Award. The Pupils have worked tremendously hard to achieve the Gold Award, it makes us really proud to be part of Learn to Lead at Critchill. The most recent success being: The Uniform Team organised […]