Help us to help you: Questionnaire Results

Lots of members responded to the questionnaire - thank you one and all. The prize draw was won by Anne Kirby of St. Mary's School, Beverley so all the best to her!
The free text responses are here

The sections about your preferences about newsletters, meetings etc will be discussed at our next association meeting. As many as possible will be put into place straightaway e.g. some members will get future newsletters by email.

The responses about problems in schools are below in order of frequency of response. Where possible these will be raised in individual cases and in general via the local WAMG.

The main issues in my school are

%

e. general increase in workload

60.2

d. too much repetitive data collection

50.6

k. new curriculum initiatives

50.6

i. pupil behaviour

37.3

b. too many meetings

33.7

j. lack of management response to poor pupil behaviour

33.7

l. burdensome planning requirements/management “marking” of planning

30.1

f. staffing structure

21.7

g. areas of responsibility

21.7

a. Writing more than 1 report a year

20.5

c. lunchtime working/meetings

19.3

h. unpaid responsibilities

18.1

m. unannounced drop-ins or observations

6.02