Friday Vox Pop

This episode was a bit harder to do this week as again, I had a lot of kids running away from me or just saying ‘no thanks.’ They saw me coming with my little recorder and promptly walked the other way. I’m going to have to get the message to them that nothing they say is ‘wrong’ and they’re not going to get into trouble for saying what they think. One student even asked me this week if I was going to do anything with the answers they were giving us. I said that we can’t change everything at once, but that we don’t know what we should change if they don’t tell us.

I loved the kids answers this week. I gave some of the kids examples of what other kids had said to get them thinking about what they might say, but that was all the prompting I did. They came up with everything themselves really.

One of the strongest answers was that the kids want more sport - both the girls and the boys. In the past I have mostly pretty much ignored this response because they can’t just be outside playing sport all the time, and they can’t, but I still think we need to pay a bit more attention to the fact that they want to. My Chinese classes aren’t all of a sudden going to contain P.E activities, but I could keep it in mind a bit more. More games was something the kids said a lot - and I thought it was interesting how one little one (Gr 2 student) thought that the big kids don’t get to play many games.

Anyway, have a listen and let me know what you think. Click on the badge to be taken to the podomatic site.

NEXT WEEK’S QUESTION: What is the most important thing you learn how to do at school? What is the least important?

~ by Jess on February 17, 2008.