National Lead Practitioner Survey
What is the National Lead Practitioner Survey?
The National Lead Practitioner Survey was conducted in 2019 and aimed to canvass the opinion of those most responsible for implementing the Foundation Phase within schools in Wales. It explored practitioner views of the policy and its impact on areas of schooling and groups of learners and attempted to obtain a rough measure of how the Foundation Phase is enacted in schools across the country.
The survey was a short anonymous online questionnaire, distributed to all schools in Wales for which email addresses were held. It was completed by the member of staff in each school with specific responsibility for the Foundation Phase. This could have been the Head Teacher, a deputy Head Teacher, Foundation Phase Lead Practitioner or another member of staff with the most responsibility for its implementation and day to day management. Roughly a quarter of schools took part in the survey, allowing a reasonable picture of perceptions and delivery of the Foundation Phase in Wales to be drawn.
How will the results be used?
The results suggest widespread support for the Foundation Phase as a policy, but noticeable differences in perceived impacts and challenges, use of resources and the ways in which it is implemented within classrooms and schools were also found.
The results of the survey will be written up as part of the thesis of the PhD. Relevant findings will also be shared with the Welsh Government in order to try and help inform future Foundation Phase strategies.
The National Lead Practitioner Survey was conducted in 2019 and aimed to canvass the opinion of those most responsible for implementing the Foundation Phase within schools in Wales. It explored practitioner views of the policy and its impact on areas of schooling and groups of learners and attempted to obtain a rough measure of how the Foundation Phase is enacted in schools across the country.
The survey was a short anonymous online questionnaire, distributed to all schools in Wales for which email addresses were held. It was completed by the member of staff in each school with specific responsibility for the Foundation Phase. This could have been the Head Teacher, a deputy Head Teacher, Foundation Phase Lead Practitioner or another member of staff with the most responsibility for its implementation and day to day management. Roughly a quarter of schools took part in the survey, allowing a reasonable picture of perceptions and delivery of the Foundation Phase in Wales to be drawn.
How will the results be used?
The results suggest widespread support for the Foundation Phase as a policy, but noticeable differences in perceived impacts and challenges, use of resources and the ways in which it is implemented within classrooms and schools were also found.
The results of the survey will be written up as part of the thesis of the PhD. Relevant findings will also be shared with the Welsh Government in order to try and help inform future Foundation Phase strategies.
