'After the Survey' Workshops

Questionnaire content exercise

  • To practise a purposeful way of reviewing the questionnaire content.
  • To introduce the method as a way which cross-curricular communication can be fostered in a school.
  • To assist subject teachers in:
  • Curriculum planning.
  • Use of data in the classroom.
  • Use of data elsewhere.

A balancing act

  • To promote further discovery of the recreational opportunities in the community served by the school and the levels of participation by the children.
  • To design a strategy by which more children could become involved in these recreational activities outside school.
Young People into the 21st Century
  • To introduce teachers to larger sample of published data with which they can compare the results from their own school.
  • To raise an awareness of the role of the GP in the life of a young person.
Parents + schools and alcohol
  • To clarify the method by which the alcohol information was gathered.
  • To provide reference data for comparison with schools data.
  • To prompt clarification between use of alcohol and other behaviours.
  • To explore collaborative work with parents.
Are you getting square eyes?
  • To introduce an exercise in which small groups of pupils interact with one another and the data.
  • To prompt the selection of groups of data that would serve named subject areas.
Main sources of information about sex
  • To prompt planning of a constructive way of bringing parents and schools together in the provision of a sex-education programme, using the survey data as evidence.
Write a letter to the Head
  • To provide experience in close attention to statistics.
  • To learn how to argue using statistics
  • To rehearse writing for a particular audience
Asthma
  • To raise the issue of the number of people who do use (or could use) asthma medication.
  • To use the data to prompt examination of attitudes towards respiratory diseases and towards labelling.
  • To question whether there are pupils who would benefit from asthma medication but don't, and, if so, why they don't.
Survey Support
 Schools get back a comprehensive package of support, comprising: Schools can also get additional services from the SHEU: Please contact Angela Balding (Tel: 01392 667272) for details.