Our First Attempt

When we were interviewing for the first time in the playground, we moved tables out and sat in groups of about 2-4.

We had boring times when there was no-one around to interview, and times when we were crowded with people, so there were too many people to interview. We also found that we could have had more interview papers, so that we did not have to waste time making more when we could have been interviewing people.

Some things worked, and we ended up with lots of results, and the incentive worked, which was if they did the interview, they got a sweet.

There were problems as well though, because there were people hanging around asking for sweets, and a couple of children gave rude sites.

Overall the results were mostly fun, fun and fun. The children giving the answers would not explain why it was fun.

Our Second Attempt

We decided to make a new plan for the interviews and try again. We organised where we would do it, how we would do it and when we would do it.

We did it three lunchtimes each, either interviewing or collecting. We did it in 2V’s classroom on the computer so the children could actually show us their favourite sites. It was a lot easier. We did one year group each day. We did the interviews again because we wanted to get different and more interesting results.

We organised ourselves by having six people in pairs interviewing one person at a time each day, whilst two other people went out to collect people to interview. We interviewed one year group each day.

The sweets worked well as bribery… sorry incentive! The second interviews took a lot more work and time so we couldn’t do as many. Over all the second interviews were a lot better because we had a new, successful plan and we had computers!