Dear Families
You may sometimes hear the term 'pupil voice' used when talking about children at school. What does this mean, and how do we do this at Meadow?
Pupil voice is all the ways we capture what our pupils think and feel. As the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child says, "Children have the right to give their opinions freely on issues that affect them. Adults should listen and take children seriously."
We have a range of ways to find out what our pupils' opinions are, including:
- Dedicated daily tutor time.
- Finding out (and recording) who the pupils trusted adults are in school.
- Questionnaires / surveys.
- Focus groups e.g. anti-racism / LGBTQ.
- School council.
- Anonymous question and feedback post boxes.
- And most importantly, a culture of listening.
Recently, three of our pupils have been given the opportunity to extend their 'voice' as they have been invited to be part of Brentwood Football Club's Youth Voice Ambassador Program. Charlie, George and Marius so impressed the coaches that have been coming in to school, they were nominated for these roles. Last week they attended their first session as Youth Voice Ambassadors and gave the following feedback:
"We had drinks and snacks and played some getting to know you games with the other ambassadors"
"It was nice to get to know some of the other people from different schools"
"They did ask us lots of questions but in a fun way. I had a really good time"
Well done to all three Ambassadors, we are very proud of you and thank you for representing yourselves and the school so well.
Kind regards,
Mrs J Rigby
Headteacher
