Focus groups write up notes
The experience of teachers and those who support learning spanned from 18 months to over 10 years, including input from two assistant head teachers. Schools were from within one geographic county and large multi academy trust (MAT) in the UK, with schools chosen across the MAT to represent an inner city school, outskirts of a city and a rural location to offer a diversity of settings and contexts. Also offering a broad representation of those who support teaching and learning across the Upper Key Stage 2 (UKS2) context, making the data grounded in sustained practice and from a range of teaching and learning viewpoints and locations. Focus groups were organised directly through a key contact and gatekeeper at the MAT to deliberately represent a range of different schools, size and locations. The schools had limitations of availability, time and classroom cover, therefore most focus groups were conducted with 3 participants from each school, with one having 4 participants. The full ...