Building on the success so far, this project has been extended
to give you more time to embed the platform in your setting.
Alison Edgecombe, Headteacher
How its working in Upminster Junior School
Alison shares how the launch of The Student Voice in her school is going, how students have responded, and shares advice for other schools on how to launch successfully.
An update from Trevor & Carol
“Well done to all the schools that have successfully launched their Student Voice platform! We’re already seeing fantastic engagement across many schools and have received positive feedback on how it is making a difference at a school level. Given this encouraging response, we are pleased to announce that we will be extending the project to allow more time for schools to fully embed the platform and maximize its impact.
If you haven’t launched the platform yet, we encourage you to do so and integrate it into your safeguarding practices. This platform also complements your PSHE curriculum, providing an ongoing, valuable way to gather student feedback and address concerns early. Please get in touch with The Student Voice team if you need any help getting started with your launch.
To support your rollout, the Student Voice team will be sharing example questions to help guide your implementation and support continued use with students. We’ve funded this platform to empower your students—so if you haven’t started yet or are unsure where to begin, please refer to the information below to get started.
Thank you for your commitment to amplifying student voices!”
Do you need help launching?
Get a Login
You should have recieved a welcome email ‘Welcome to The Voice Project – Your Login’ from support@thestudentvoice.co.uk. Please email us if you need help logging in, or need a login issued.
Setting up two-factor authentication
Setting up 2stage authentication upon login: https://www.thestudentvoice.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2Fa-How-to-setup-2.pdf
Please find all launch resources and information via your DSL dashboard under ‘Voice Project updates’ and ‘My Launch resources’ on your dashboard.
DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDE: How to embed The Student Voice PDF
This guide has been created to help you embed the platform into your school using the model below. The Student Voice can be embedded through regular use and feedback. Use SMSC/PSHE themes, questions of the week, or RAG rating exercise to gather point in time feedback that you can use as a benchmark for evidencing improvement and measuring effectiveness.
Please make sure you introduce us to your IT team ASAP if you haven’t already, to confirm the URL is being deployed to your devices correctly (support@thestudentvoice.co.uk).
We will continue to provide updates via email throughout, so please do look out for these. We are on hand, so please do get in touch with Eve and the support team if you need some help!
Call: 03300 563123
Email: support@thestudentvoice.co.uk
Student Voice Dashboard Tutorial Video
If you need any run through of the system as a bit of training please do book in a session with us: https://www.thestudentvoice.co.uk/book-a-demo/
What is The Student Voice?
Overview
The Voice Project will provide the children and young people of Havering LA with the opportunity to share information about their life experiences in school, in their community, at home and online.
Havering Local Authority seeks to understand how to improve its services supporting Young People earlier, through preventative interventions.
Designed to remove the fear and stigma attached to reporting issues; The Student Voice is an interactive and child-friendly reporting tool that utilises interactive maps of all the contexts that your young people spend time in, so schools or colleges can improve these spaces with more targeted and effective interventions, and ultimately prevent future harm.
Streamline safeguarding information and work more effectively together by gathering vital reports on hotspot areas, times of day these incidents occur, and what age or year groups are experiencing this.
Primary
Surrounding Areas
Home
School Grounds
The benefits to you as a DSL:
- The Student Voice contextual safeguarding tool and training fully funded by Havering LA.
- Build trust and engagement with students, ensuring students feel safe and heard.
- Find where and when disruption repeatedly happens, and provide invaluable evidence during Ofsted inspections.
- Access The Student Voice platform that will strengthen your school’s safeguarding culture.
- Keep the LA better informed about the lived experiences of your pupils, to impact decision making.
- Gather insight on contextual issues and hotspots in and outside of school (local parks, shopping centres, towns, and on public transport..etc)
