Student+Forum+3+Ideas

=First Planning Thoughts for Student Forum 3 - the Final One=

I thought I'd just leave you with something to cogitate on over the holiday break (which I hope is a great one for you, by the way). So here are my thoughts about the third and final student forum, which has now been re-scheduled to **Monday 1 August, 9.30 am - 12.30 pm at St Mary's, Greensborough**.

These are some preliminary points. I haven't yet done a draft agenda/plan or booklet, but will do that early in Term 3. If you have any thoughts or suggestions or changes - or offers to present sessions - let me know as early in the term as possible

**Preparation/Bring**
The first part of the forum will be a very similar show and tell to that at the last Forum, but this time focused on the **ACTION** that the student teams have taken or are taking. So you'll need to //bring along// some sort of //**display**// that shows what you've done or are doing. This should clearly show the link from **ISSUE -> RESEARCH -> RESULTS -> GOALS -> ACTION**. Don't go overboard on this; clear content is more important that prettiness.

And then we'll again need someone to //point to the display// and encourage/entice others to come to see it. The challenge here should be: **this student or students have to introduce their display WITHOUT telling the audience anything about the content!** That is, they have to advertise it and make people want to come and see it, but without giving away **ANYTHING** that's on the sheets.

We'll then run a similar //bingo-style activity//, but perhaps also with the challenge that we're writing a report about the project and we want students' **//recommendations//** about which aspects of the work of the schools should be highlighted under various headings eg "//nominate// a school that clearly linked their action to their research ... and give the reasons for your nomination ..."

That's about it for preparation, except that if there's a chance to start thinking about //IMPACT//, that would make the next part easier.

PART 2: Impact
So then the second part of the session is to talk about the **impact** that their work has had or is having on various groups: //them// (those at the forum), //other students// (in their grades, and in the whole school), //environmental practices of the school and community// (including families at home). I'm thinking we'll do this as a mock panel game called **"Where's the Evidence?"** where representatives of each team are challenged to confer with their team and bring evidence to a public panel. We'll have 2 or 3 reps per school on each panel - and three sets of panels, so that will involve about 6-9 of your student leader team.

And then we could formalise this by getting each school team to make small //posters// summarising the evidence for impact - or, if they're not there yet, the nature of the evidence they //COULD// collect to report on future impact.

Part 3 - Celebration
I'm then thinking we finish with some celebratory activity: //food//? And certainly we should present some **certificates** to teams. Maybe a certificate for each team, naming all members of the team - and we could produce multiple copies of these (or photocopy them so each member has a copy?). And these should say the school name, something general about environmental sustainability and about having made a difference ... and be signed ... Anything else on them? **Any ideas?** (With small teams, it's easy to give a few students a certificate, but I'm conscious that these are whole cohort SATs and therefore ALL students should get something, not just a few ...) We'd need names grouped into teams well in advance ... I'm happy to generate these, but need the info.


 * Feedback and ideas needed here.**

OK - now you deserve a holiday having read through this!!!

See you next term.

Roger

=Forum 3 Plan=

And (28th July) here's the FINAL version of the Planner for the Forum:



and the booklet for the Forum - but please don't run it off or use it before the day - I'll bring copies along: