The Student Voice initiative offers the opportunity for all students to gain leadership experience and team spirit through their engagement in team projects that improve their school and wider communities. All teams receive training to work together, make plans and run meetings and activities to achieve their goals.

Student Voice projects can range across various fields, such as: Environmental, Fundraising/ Charity, School development/ Current student issues and Equality (bullying, racism, LGBT, sexism…).

‘Link Teachers’ give guidance to the team and support them with administrative tasks, while students take on a range of roles within their project teams. The Student Voice Student Coordinator, who is the face of Student Voice at the BSGC, has a key role in ensuring teams achieve their goals. This is an important leadership position of responsibility within the student community.

Alongside the weekly meetings, the termly Forum brings together all the members of the project teams, the link teachers and the Student Voice Coordinator to communicate the ongoing work of the project teams, share ideas and discuss any issues, concerns or interests that relate to the work of the team members.

The Student Voice Coordinator and the facilitators of each Project Team hold regular meetings with the school’s Head, to deliver status updates and discuss new projects ideas.

• In Depth training in the Student Voice processes and aims
• Hallowe´en “Haunted House” event
• Bake sale, Christmas clothes day and Second Hand book sale to raise money to support a school in Tanzania
• Kindness wall
• Dulce Navidad Food bank collection
• Second hand uniform sale for Las Aldeas Infantiles

• Fundraising for a wide range of charity initiatives
• School improvement projects such as heat mitigation measures
• Environmental initiatives such as gardening
• Awareness raising, for example for Earth Day and Dia de la Mujer, and via an elephant adoption