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Share your expertise about primary reading schemes, earn £50 for 2 hours of your time:

Are you interested in taking part in a focus group about the use of primary reading schemes to support all pupils, including those with additional needs such as EAL, SEN, and reluctant readers? We’re holding seven focus groups in the following locations:
London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Oxford, Cheltenham/ Gloucester and we’re looking for teachers with the following specialisms or job roles:
literacy coordinators, EAL coordinators, Sencos, and teachers from schools with a high percentage of EAL or SEN pupils. (You don’t need to belong to more than one of these categories!)

The dates for the focus groups are as follows:
11th, 16th, 17th, 18th 23rd and 24th March 2010 from 4.30 – 6.30pm.

We’re also looking for primary literacy teachers in international schools to take part in an online focus group on 25th March 2010 at a time yet to be agreed.

We’ll be exploring the way in which you use your reading scheme, and discussing how publishers of a relatively new reading scheme ought to expand and develop their range of titles and resources, so the conversation should be stimulating, lively, and interesting.

1. Your name:

First Name

Surname

2. Email address:

3. School postcode: this is not used in any identification process, only for geographic spread of respondents.

4. Name of your school:

5. Which one of these broadly describes the school / college that you teach in? If your school is independent please also tick the independent box

Infant
Junior
Primary
Middle
Special (SEN)
Other
Not Applicable

Independent

6. In which local authority area is your school situated?

Outside UK

Region:

Local Authority:

6a. In what kind of catchment area is your school located?

Rural
Urban
Inner City
Mixed urban/rural

7. How many pupils do you have on roll?

8. Approximately how many SEN pupils do you have at your school?

Up to 5%
6-10%
11-15%
16-20%
More than 20%

9. Approximately how many EAL pupils attend the school?

Up to 5%
6-10%
11-15%
16-20%
More than 20%

10. What is your main position within the school / college?

Classroom Teacher
SenCo
Literacy Co-ordinator
Other Subject Co-ordinator, please sepcify:

Head of Key Stage
Headteacher
Deputy Head / Assistant Head / Senior Management Team
Other, please specify:

11. What year group do you personally teach? Please tick all that apply

Reception / P1
Year 1 / P2
Year 2 / P3
Year 3 / P4
Year 4 / P5
Year 5 / P6
Year 6 / P7

12. Please state which of the following schemes you use, how satisfied you are with it, and how long you have been using it for:

	Core	Supplementary	Dissatisfied	Neutral	Satisfied	Length of time
Collins Big Cat
Collins Big Cat Phonics
Discovery World (Heinemann/Pearson)
Fast Phonics First/ Rigby Start Phonics (Heinemann)
Fireflies (Oxford Reading Tree)
Floppy’s Phonics (ORT)
Kids & Co (Rising Stars)
Lighthouse (Heinemann/Pearson)
Literacy Evolve (Pearson Education)
Oxford Reading Tree
PM (Nelson Thornes)
Read, Write, Inc. (OUP)
Rigby Star (Heinemann/Pearson)
Snapdragons (Oxford Reading Tree)
Songbirds (Oxford Reading Tree)
Splash Phonics (Rising Stars)
Storyworlds (Heinemann/Pearson)
Other, please specify:
No core scheme

Focus Groups
Focus groups are 2 hour discussions that take place between 4.30 – 6.30pm at a local meeting venue. You will receive a personal payment of £50 for attending.

Online Focus Groups
Online focus groups are 2 hour discussions that take place between 4.00 – 6.00pm, and you will receive a personal payment of £50. You can take part in the discussion from wherever is convenient for you – as long as you have a computer with broadband access and a telephone, calls from a landline are free!
Please note – you will receive an email confirmation if we are able to offer you a place on this project.

As part of this project we are also running six focus groups and one online focus group. The focus groups will be taking place on the 11th, 16th, 17th, 18th 23rd and 24th March 2010, and will be held in Oxford, Bristol, Birmingham, London, Manchester and Cheltenham/Gloucester. We are also looking for schools to host the focus groups. There is an additional payment of £100 payable to the school for hosting.

The online focus group taking place on the 25th March 2010.

If you are interested in taking part in any of the focus groups please select the dates/venues below:

	11th March	16th March	17th March	18th March	23rd March	24th March
Oxford
Bristol
Birmingham
London
Manchester
Cheltenham/Gloucester

I am willing to host the focus group in return for an additional payment of £100
I wish to participate in the online focus group on 25th March 2010

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