Hiring Now... Pathway Schools busy recruiting leadership teams

In the run-up to the end of term and the Citizen Schools Pathway launch, each participating school has been busy organising the teachers, parents, senior leaders, governors and students to make up their Citizen School Team. Participants - students included - will go on a year-long development programme where they will accrue the skills, knowledge and experience of planning and implementing real, engaging, motivating active citizenship education.

The key is get participants opting in, finding those people who really want to take part, who feel the programme chimes with where they are at and who can commit the time to really make taking part worthwhile for themselves and the school.

Head teacher of Prendergast Ladywell Fields College, Mel Whitfield, felt the Pathway was so significant that the school created a special post - with additional funding - to lead the school's participation, with all staff able to freely apply for the position. This helped recruit Simon Jones, Head of Geography, to their Citizen Schools team.



Thomas Tallis school (above) set about holding student interviews for the two student leader positions. After using our job descriptions and doing lessons to interested students, young people had to apply for the position and write a CV to support their application. Formal interviews in the school's official meeting room followed - after which students were selected, with everyone interviewed being given some form of position, be it Citizen Schools Leader (who attends trainings throughout the year) or Citizen Schools Ambassador (who works primarily inside the school to get other students motivated and involved).

All the resources to support you doing this in your school are available to download from our Citizen Schools Community, our online forum. The materials are in our special Pathway zone, so make sure you register on the forum to be able to get the resources!