1. Students Leading Learning Technologies Corey Briffa Maisie McInnes Dean Goodall Lindsey Hunneman Broadening communication, participation and involvement using technology

2. “Making our voice heard!” During our presentation please feel free to contact us: Text your question and phone number to 07624806527 A card has been given to you with the number to start your text with

3. “Making our voice heard!” We made our meetings more business like using technology to help us communicate with everyone.

4. “Making our voice heard!” The students have used many technologies to broaden the student voice at Lodge Park Technology College these include: – VLE Blogs Emailing Text Messaging On-line Surveys

5. “Making our voice heard!” We started to improve our communication with other students by using our VLE – Moodle.

6. “Making our voice heard!” Once the students were comfortable communicating using Moodle we turned our attention to Texting and Emailing.

7. “Making our voice heard!” We had our own Student Council E-mail setup studentcouncil@lodgepark.org.uk

8. Text 07624806527 with the number 78002 at the start of the message e.g. “78002 Lodge Park is wonderful” or you can email… studentcouncil@lodgepark.org.uk

9. “Making our voice heard!” We agreed on an issue to change and how we would communicate with students, staff, governors, parents and the wider community

10. “Making our voice heard!” By using Survey Monkey this allowed us to communicate with a wide audience.

11. “Making our voice heard!” We had almost 600 responses to the new uniform suggestions.

12. “Making our voice heard!” The impact – reaching students who previously had not been involved.

13. “Making our voice heard!” The impact -Changed uniform -More interest in Student Voice -Involvement in curriculum Reviews -Voting for new Vertical tutoring House names -Links with the community -Cashless catering -Wider voice participation in Youth Parliamentary voting

14. SCHOOL COUNCIL - meets weekly Officers elected. Two members of each house sits on school council 8 house representatives in total Student Leader & Deputy Leader elected by students and staff Young Consultants Link to SMT Teaching and Learning Operations Support Curriculum External Groups School Governors Member of each form meets fortnightly to discuss issues Each form votes for two representatives – one from KS3, one KS4 House 1House 2House 3House 4

15. “Making our voice heard!” This year we have taken huge steps to engage and involve the wider student audience within our school using the technologies available to everyone. This is continuing and we will build on this year’s success. We intend to be ‘Light Years Ahead’ If you would like to contact us please do so for more information. Our email address is: studentcouncil@lodgepark.org.uk Or send us a text on 07624806527