Our Student Voices

Ensuring our students feel listened to and able to contribute to our school community

At Selly Oak, we feel it is important that our students know that their voice is important and that it can be an instrument to affect positive change in their school community. We do this via a range of student voice groups:

• Last year, approximately a third of the students as Selly Oak Trust School were part of committees including: Whole School Student Voice, LGBTQ+ Voice, Eco Committee, Health & Safety Committee, Anti-Bullying Committee, Headteacher's Hot Chocolate & Student Curriculum & Learning Voice
• Every term, our PSLs (Pastoral Support Leads - one attached to every year group) work with Well Being Councils to organise a ‘Well-being’, ‘Citizenship’ or ‘Cultural’ activity, designed to be enjoyed by the whole year group.

Last year, the ‘Student Voice’ achievements included:

• Winning donations to fund a school set of bikes worth nearly £3000
• Creating our Whole School Pledges
• Surveying & revising our school uniform guidance 
• The creation of nearly 30 new clubs run voluntarily by staff
• Organising and working at internal charity events
• Organising Year group trips
• Student Voice Volunteers: Our students have an amazing desire to volunteer their free time in school in order to work together to make our school a better place for all. They do this by proudly wearing an orange high-visibility vest and performing roles such as ‘Peer support’, ‘Play Facilitators’, ‘Canteen Monitors’, ‘Litter Pickers’ and 'Football Monitors'.
• This year you will also see our new 6th Form PREFECTS supporting our school community, hard to miss in their amazing GOLD HI-VIZ jackets!