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How to conduct an effective survey
Use our step-by-step guide and grab-and-go statement banks to save time and get the insights you need from parents, pupils and staff.
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Step 1: decide what you're looking to survey
Surveys can help you:
- Decide your future school improvement priorities
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of your actions over the past year
- Show your local authority/trust, governors and Ofsted the impact of past school improvement objectives
Start by looking at your school improvement aims for this year, especially those identified in your last Ofsted report.
Discuss with your SLT too. Share our statement banks with them and see which areas they think should be surveyed (you'll find these in step 4).
Also think about the outcomes of your survey:
- What do you want the results to tell you?
- How do you plan to use them in your school evaluation cycle?
Step 2: decide who to ask and when
To decide who to ask, think about what you want from the survey, then which stakeholders are best placed to tell
- Parent survey pack
- Parent View: questionnaire content
- Pupil questionnaires: attitudes to reading
- Pupil questionnaires: attitudes to writing (primary)
- Pupil questionnaires: online safety, cyberbullying and social networking
- Pupil questionnaires: wellbeing
- Pupil survey pack
- Pupil surveys: subject specific (primary)
- Pupil voice questions: teaching and learning
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