Children and young people from Sheildhill, Laurieston and Bantaskin Primary Schools helped create a toolkit to make sure that pupils’ play a real part in the way their schools work. They made sure that the toolkit is easy to use. They spent time thinking about the kind of words to use so that the youngest children in our schools and early learning and childcare centres could understand the questions and give their answers.

The adults in your school or centre can find the toolkit documents here when they are logged in to Glow. They can share a Power Point presentation with you so that you can understand how to use the toolkit. There are 5 different sets of questions and these are arranged under the themes and colours above.

Each theme has questions like the ones below. Groups of children and young people read the questions in the toolkit then share their opinions about how well their school/centre does this.

The children and young people who designed the toolkit decided that traffic lights were the easiest way for them to show how well their school was doing. It their school/centre is doing well with a question they choose green, ok is amber and if lots of improvement is needed then it’s a red light. The children who’ve used the toolkit think it’s really important to write down the reasons for their answers too. Here is one of the tool kit sheets they helped to make.

We hope you get to use the toolkit soon. Some schools used it when it was time to decide how well they were doing and what they want to get better at. Sometimes pupil council or other groups use it to help them decide what they want to get better at too. Using the toolkit can help you make a plan for what you want to do and how you want to do it.

Please use the comments space below to tell us how you use it.