Pupil Voice - Living Well Schools Bradford

What we do

Building a culture of children and young people expressing views and actively participating in decision-making processes ensures that their needs and perspectives shape future practice. This fosters a sense of shared ownership and responsibility towards their health and well-being.

We help schools to gather valuable pupil insights that can lead to more effective and meaningful policies. By incorporating pupil feedback, schools in Bradford can ensure that initiatives are relevant and responsive to the needs of their children, ultimately enhancing confidence, engagement, and academic achievement.

How we do it

We have developed a range of free resources including a pupil voice survey, policy and Governors and local Councillors guidance to empower children’s voices and create a lasting impact. Living Well Schools has embedded pupil voice in all our priority areas and the recommended resources can be found below or in the Support Directory. Recommended local and national organisations to further support your pupil voice provision can be found in the Facilitated Provider section of the website.

To request any of the free resources in a Word document format, please contact us.

Pupil Voice Resources

Health and Wellbeing Survey

The pupil voice survey is designed to gather pupil perceptions and insights across three key elements of health and well-being: physical activity, eating well, and emotional well-being.

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Pupil Voice Policy

A model whole-school Pupil Voice policy that can be adapted for your school, in partnership with children. It has been designed to give you a framework to build from, to generate ideas and to demonstrate a whole-school approach to giving your pupils a voice and influence.

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School Governors Tea Party Guide

A guide to enable children on your school council or pupil voice body to invite representatives from your schools’ governing body to attend a meeting to discuss children’s ideas on what would make your school a better place for everyone.

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Local Councillors Workshop

A step-by-step process to support your school council or pupil representatives to write to their local ward councillors and invite them to a meeting. The guide includes an example meeting template that will enable children to share what is important to children both in your school as well as in the local community.

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Why we do it

Linked to Child Friendly Bradford ambition to create a place where children can be safe, happy and healthy. Creating a more child-friendly organisational cultures where children and young people can have a voice and influence by providing children with opportunities and the tools they need to thrive holistically in school and beyond. Pupil voice is focal to the Bradford District Children and Young people’s Strategy 2023-2025 and Living Well Schools ethos is directly aligned to the strategy goals by supporting schools to work with the children for the children.