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Done, but i think questions 5 and 6 do not fully allow you to express wirht of opinion on all issues. I have strong views on some that i had left unchecked due to the way the answers had to be given. so I added them in the 'comments' box.

agree with Lonestranger - those questions weren't worded very well at all

Is it just for parents in England? I started to do it, but the first page asked whether the child was in Reception, etc, which is the English system.
And of course we have a different curriculum up here in Scotland.

I think Qs 5 & 6 are very confusing - can anyone clarify?

It says "Which of the following do you think are most important?" then asks you to rate them from 1-5

Does that mean that you're rating your 5 most important ones from 1-5? It's at odds with rating something 'least important' when all the ones left unchecked are less important than the one you rated 5 IYSWIM?

sooooo, do i fill it in 3 times, one for each dc?
bit confused as q1 asks about all children in the age group, whereas the the next ones ask me to consider my opinion on the child's experience, and they aren't identikit for each child.... for a start they are in differnt schools, infant and junior, and one has sn...
have i missed something in the instructions?

I got a 'done' button rather than their suggestion of 'submit'. Hope it worked anyway.

Think it's badly designed, all that 'choose five options from this list and rate in order of importance from most to least' is quite confusing. If you are opposed to SATs, should you put them as 'least important' or just not choose them?

I was just about to ask the same question as madwomaninthe attic.

Done.

Yes, do we do it once for each child?

My responses will differ greatly depending on which child i pick.

oh, that is really embarassing.... the QCA are using a freebie survey to inform themselves of parental views?
one that is so badly designed they will actually have no idea what the data means?
i really hope someone hasn't been paid good money to put that together...

Libra its the Welsh system as well so I did it but am now wonderinga s we have a different Ofsted (Estyn) etc

Oh well

Loads of issues over design: in some areas everything in some areas was important and comlpimentary anyway....how do you teach resilience without self esteem for example?

done ,although I got a DONE instead of submit ,so not sure if its worked.
Wording in some Q's very confusing.

I agree that questions 5 and 6 should probably have been split into 2 each, so that the respondent is asked to list the 3 most important and 3 least important for each question. When they analyse those questions they will only be able to use the top two scores from each respondant with any confidence because of the unclear wording.

Very badly designed questionnaire but done

Totally agree re poor quality, what were they hoping to achieve??
I answered 5 and 6 as meaning the 5 most important, ranked in order of importance - so 5 is NOT the least important factor but the 5th most important.
But could easily have been interpreted differently.

Agree questions 5 and 6 were a problem. I can only form an opinion on my boys and they are different characters who need different things. Not sure there is a 'one size fits all' answer about what all children need.

Like Libra, Scottish poster here - I haven't completed it as I assume my views would have no relevance, but if that's not the case, say and I'll do one per child.

done, question 5 &6 i answered as in most important to me.

Why doesn't it give you the choice to pick 'Nursery' in Q1? DS is in nursery at a state primary school

Can't do it as am in Scotland. Surely though it would be interesting to get a viewpoint of a similar - but not the same - system.

The Scottish system for exmaple is mcuh more flexible with regard to start dates -which I think is much more child centred. We also don't do SATs on set dates - the school will enter the children as and when they consider them ready. For example, ds and a few others in his class sat thier maths level B before Christmas and are now working towards Level C. The rest of the class are still working towards Level B.

I agree with point made by lonestranger re question 5&6.

Agree the questionnaire could have been clearer. I think the comments box was the most useful part of it.

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