10 April

Successful Student & Teacher Media Training to be repeated don’t miss out!

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The Media Training for students and teachers proved highly successful and has gathered much interest so we are holding another course in Oxford on the 15th May. Learn how to set up a media team in order to publicise your work. Enjoy gaining new skills and understanding in video-making, websites, social media and planning a […]

9 April

The Outcome Star – A tried & tested tool for supporting and measuring change

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Increasingly schools want hard evidence of impact on students involved in programmes. What impact is Learn to lead having on your students? Following development with Triangle, Learn to lead are delighted to be able to offer The Outcome Star Evaluation training. The day will enable students to use the Outcome Star Evaluation Tool with younger […]

31 March

More Schools Join in Cornwall and Oxford

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March has been a great month for introducing Learn to lead to Primary Schools in Cornwall and Oxford. We have also had some great feedback from the days such as “Really enjoyed the training and looking forward to implementing it in School” “Great content …. Good resources to take back to school!” “A range of […]

30 March

St Anne’s students are “Rocket Fuel”

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Students at St. Anne’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College, Southampton are being given the opportunity to lead aspects of their school through the Learn to lead programme. The students are choosing aspects of their school life they want to improve and working as teams to bring in those changes, all on their own! James […]

28 February

Latest newsletter includes funding and training opportunities

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Learn to lead’s latest newsletter has been released today, this issue includes funding, latest training opportunities and information on the new Outcome Star Evaluation Training for sixth formers, teachers and mentors. The newsletter can be read here eepurl.com/PoVV5 If you would like to be added to the mailing list contact us

27 February

B&NES Children’s Services Participation

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We are delighted to report that Learn to lead have been successful in the bid for the Bath and North East Somerset Children’s Services Participation commission for 2014-17. The aim is: “to promote the participation of children and young people, particularly those most vulnerable, to ensure their voices are heard and responded to, and to […]

14 February

Learn to lead are pleased to welcome three new Young Directors !

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Jake Pitt writer for The Columnist and backbench, co-editor of @YProgresivesUK, editor of @somersetypnews and member of Youth parliament in Somerset. Cerise Able-Thompson, English undergraduate at St Mary’s London, has experience of Learn to lead through her own school life, has since working voluntarily in schools; also with Forest School Camps and is aiming to […]

4 February

Student voice – We Need to Talk about Education

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What good is school? Let’s hear it from the kids… How better to highlight educational inequality in England than by talking to the pupils themselves? This was the headline and opening sentence of an article in Sunday’s Observer. Politicians, academics, commentators: everyone has a voice in education except the students themselves. Yet their aspirations are […]

31 January

Funding for Learn to lead students

UnLtd provide support for social entrepreneurs, and have two award schemes that might be relevant for Learn to lead projects: Spark Awards These awards of up to £500 are about social entrepreneurs coming together to support each other in doing amazing things. As a Learn to lead project perhaps you could link up with other […]

10 January

New media team training for students and staff

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January 28th – Wells, Somerset Learn how to set up a media team in order to publicise your work … and gain new skills and understanding in video-making, websites, social media and planning a media campaign. This is a very practical day for students, teachers are also welcome. Leading the day we are delighted to have […]