VP4: What is the most important thing you learn how to do at school? What is the least important?
I didn’t get nearly as many kids running away from me this week as I did last week! Maybe my note in the daily bulletin that goes to all classes actually got through.
My impression was that the kids thought these questions were a bit easier to answer this week as I didn’t need to have too much discussion with them to help them answer, so that was good. I might make the next few questions a bit easier so they become much more confident in answering.
The answers to this weeks questions were pretty interesting, and some were predictable. By far the kids see the most important thing as reading and writing. There were lots of different answers about what the least important things were. A couple of Year 8 students even said that history was not important because ‘we don’t need to know that stuff’. It would have been good to have the time to ask the kids for reasons for all of their answers, and I did for some. Some have reasons, others just shrugged their shoulders. I did mention to a few that when they were talking about what they thought was least important, that they shouldn’t just focus on the things they didn’t like. I told them to think of something they had learned that they didn’t think they’d ever use. Most of the kids who said they thought sport wasn’t that important were avid sport fans, and the one student who said she didn’t think music was that important actually really likes music. It’s interesting to see that some kids can see beyond their interests. But I wonder how much relevance they do see between school and the lives they think they will lead. One of my questions in the coming weeks might have to be ‘Do you think school prepares you for life? Why or why not?’ Hmm, I will put that one on my list.
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they were good answers
I liked the idea of the friday voxpop is good because it helps the teachers to find out how we learn and how we want to learn.
i think that the friday vox pop is good because it gives the teachers a better idea of how we think learning is more interesting an more fun.
i liked the friday vox pop coz there are good quations
I think that Friday Vox pop is really good because It shows you what the students think about this school or their opinion of a question
pretty sweet blog
great work
i thought of a new quistion it is ”why is school so important” thanks i think the vox pot is very well set out.
hey jess,
i think the friday vox pop is a great idea both for teachers and students. It gives the students to express their opinions. And also the teachers have ideas to improve their classes..
i think that it was really good but maybe the little kids should speak up a bit more
i like all the different ideas you come up each week.
it was really good but the the people need to be louder
it is cool that you keep a record and all that sort of stuff