The Citizen Schools Pathway in Action!

The change has begun.

Across London, 5,000 young people in 18 schools are busy learning about, investigating, listening to and creating ideas to improve their communities. It's the first phase of the Citizen Schools Pathway.

Here's a summary of the brilliant progress being made by schools:


George Green's School is holding a 'listening hour' for all Year 7 students, with pupils split into expert teams tasked with listening to particular groups. Coming into the school next Friday at 10am are groups of parents, sixth formers, primary school students, elderly residents, and representatives from Morgan Stanley - plus students are heading out to visit local businesses. They've also designed their own take on the Citizen Schools logo which all staff are currently wearing!

Barking Abbey School, Charter School, Drayton Manor High School, Central Foundation Girls School, Little Ilford School and Hendon School have all held successful launch assemblies led by students - well done to Pryia, Yewande, Jessica, Musa, Shahanur, the team at Central Foundation and Charter's Year 8 School Council for all their work towards this.


John Roan School have launched their programme with this engaging short video explaining what's happening in their particular galaxy!


Lampton School held a special launch yesterday with Year 9 students coming out of lessons for short 'taster' activities in the main hall led by the citizenship team and students themselves... a unique way to generate enthusiasm and show the project is a little bit different!


Lilian Baylis Technology School are busy meeting with local partners, organisations and groups who will help students investigate the local environment and street safety - and are planning a local community walk for pupils to listen to the community.

Kingsbury High School have their team of Citizen Schools student leaders in place, divided into teams responsible for film/photography, blogging and communicating to power players. Citizen Schools leaders are alos leading a whole-staff 30 minute briefing on the project and have featured the Citizen Schools plans in the latest governor's report.


Prendergast Ladywell Fields College have a unique model of their students leading the Citizen Schools lessons alongside teachers. A huge team of 50+ student leaders have been in classes beginning the journey for hundreds of students. Click here to see it in action on youtube! Meanwhile they're planning a 'listening' stall in the heart of Lewisham, and Amanda and Alice are keeping the borough's power players in touch with excellent regular updates.


Cardinal Wiseman School held a special training for their Citizen Schools student leaders, have divided up roles into connectors, researchers, broadcasters and ambassadors, and their team is being mentored by two outstanding sixth form students (well done Grainne and James!).