Power to the pupils: How we put student voice at the heart of learning

Student voice has always been promoted and celebrated at The Romsey School. We regularly review practices that we operate at whole-school level and, in 2016, I decided to develop our student voice to increase pupils' sense of belonging. I felt this was important as I wanted our student voice to move away from ‘tokenism’ and towards ‘learner empowerment’ (Futurelab Report, 2006). Our vision In January 2017, we created a vision for our student body to move them from contributing to school life in committees to proactive behaviours that make a sustained difference to learning. The vision was: ’For students to be empowered to enhance the quality of their learning experiences at The Romsey School and to assist in the development of positive learning behaviours with our whole student body.’ We wanted to: Develop proactive behaviours that make a sustained difference to learning Develop student’s metacognition so that they are more proactive in their learning and liv