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Whole school community engages with action research

Staff at Church Aston Infant School devised a pilot project to identify the benefits for teachers, pupils and parents of a personalised learning strategy. They see this as a jumping off point for a larger piece of action research that will involve the whole school community.

During the two week pilot project, pupils met in plenary groups at the end of each day to review their learning and to discuss what they had enjoyed the most. Then parents and pupils completed learning logs at home. Teachers encouraged them to express their views on the learning process as well as the outcomes.

Parents could visit the school at any time during the two week period, and at the end they were able to watch a photographic and digital video presentation about the project. School governors were also very much involved and some of them ran workshops.

The Institute of Physics and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) provided some financial support.

The initial outcomes
Throughout the project, teachers met regularly to evaluate the teaching and learning that was taking place. They discussed teaching strategies and the effect they had on pupils’ learning. Using the logs and the feedback from parents they were also able to gain insight into what inspired, challenged or failed to interest pupils and why.

Next step: ‘action research’ project
Church Aston is now looking to build on their success by activating a two year ‘action research’ project on personalised learning where teaching staff become researchers. At the end of the two years, the project outcomes will be recorded and disseminated. In this way, staff will not only contribute to their own professional development but they will also have played a key role in pioneering research.


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