1. Set a goal for your survey
Surveys can help you:
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses
- 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
Consider why you're doing the survey, and what you hope the results will help you do. Set a clear goal for the survey based on this.
Having a clear goal means you can make sure that every question in your survey is relevant and useful. For example, a goal might be:
- To determine why you're struggling to retain teachers
- To find out how safe your pupils feel in school
- To understand your pupils’ awareness of and access to support services in school
2. Decide who to ask and when
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