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Student council: headteacher interview questions
Collaborate with your student council to develop a set of questions that reflect your pupils' priorities - use our list of questions and record sheet to help you get started.
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Collaborate with pupils to develop questions on specific topics
In the document above, you'll find a list of general questions for the candidate. However, you'll also want to add more specific questions that reflect student concerns and priorities.
Carve out time for a training and planning session with your student council to develop questions on particular topics. For example, they may want to add more specific questions related to:
- School uniform, and whether any changes might be made to it
- Approach to homework
- Approach to teaching and learning
- Improving the pupils' test results
- Ways of involving the student body in changing and developing the school
- School rules and disciplinary procedures
- School catering
- Mobile phones
- ICT
- How to build respect between students and teachers
- School clubs
- Trips and visits
- Community work
- Support for students in need
- Equalities issues
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