Case Studies | The Youth of Today

Democracy in Action

De La Salle is an enthusiastic supporter of the Liverpool Schools' Parliament. We encourage the elected members of our School Council to attend the regular meetings of the Liverpool Schools' Parliament, and to take an active part in their functioning and decision making. Read More...

Big Sisters, Big difference to the school. Fulham Cross Girls School

At Fulham Cross Girls School in London, they take a unique approach to involving students in their learning experience. Reflecting the Senior Leadership Team, a group of students make up a student leadership team which mirrors the senior version and sees them make similar decisions and recommendations to their senior leader counterparts. Each student also is linked to a member of staff on the SLT who guide them through the process and also inform them on relevant specialism’s such as special educational needs, a specific subject or pastoral issues. Read More...

Our Junior Leadership Team

For the first time ever at Brentside High School we have elected and appointed a new Junior Leadership Team. We have 12 members from both year 12 and year 13 and they also take up seats on our school council. Read More...

Wellington College does The Apprentice!

Wellington College held its own version of the TV show "The Apprentice" from January to February 2009 as part of its leadership programme. 22 teams battled it out in this prestigious competition and they raised over £2000 for Hope and Homes for Children, whilst completing three challenging business-orientated tasks. Read More...

Bethnal Green Technology College embeds youth leadership into all aspects of the school

Bethnal Green Technology Centre worked with the University of the First Age to really develop the school's student voice and leadership. Very quickly it became a school that exemplified youth empowerment and participation. Embedding it into the school ethos and it’s wider approach to the student’s education experience, it was clear to see that BGTC was a school which prided itself on giving young people a voice, and harnessing their skills for positive changes. Read More...

Harnessing the full potential of an indvidual student

Through a partnership with Community Service Volunteers (CSV) , read about how one school saw huge changes with one of their students after taking part in their programme Read More...

Walsall students set up revision clubs with the help of the University of the First Age

Bentley Drive School in Walsall set up University of the First Age Revision Clubs to enable children to revise using a variety of strategies that would suit their individual learning differences. Although the clubs took place in school, the learning environment was further enhanced with stimulating posters and resources, Each session began with an energiser activity and a healthy snack to aid their concentration. Read More...

The enterprising science teacher going that extra mile ...

In November 2007 she was one of four teachers taking part in a daring and innovative project called ‘Teachers on Ice’, which saw them go to Antarctica for one month to carry out scientific research related to coping with environmental extremes and climate change. Read More...

Birmingham school takes social enterprise to new level!

At Colmer School in Birmingham, Tom Charlett, PSHE and Citizenship Co-ordinator at the school covered the Giving Nation Challenge with year 11 students over seven curriculum hours in their learning for life and PSHE lessons. Read More...

Making a pitch

80 students from 10 schools across Kirklees, Calderdale, Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield took part in an inter-school challenge held at the prestigious Galpharm Stadium, organised by Young chamber students of Batley Business and Education College in conjunction with Brighouse High School to win £300 towards a business project plus a years free business consultancy. Read More...