Resource: Interviews about transition

Classroom activity 3 – Formal discussion and recording with my family

When students are comfortable with activities 1 and 2, they have experience creating interview questions, have practised interviewing a classmate, and practised recording – they are ready to try this at home.

    Family perspective of my school transition

    In class time, brainstorm and develop questions for students to ask a family member. You can use the sample questions in activity 1 to help. Or, there are further examples here:
    • Next year I am going to secondary school. What is the most exciting thing for you as my parent/carer/family member (students can rename accordingly) about me leaving primary school and beginning secondary school?
    • What are the most significant memories you have of me in primary school?
    • What do you think was my best work and best efforts while I was in primary school?
    • What are the things that worry you most about me starting secondary school next year?
    • What was your first memory of me starting school?
    • How did you feel about me starting school when I was 5, and how did things change for you?
    • What has been the most challenging thing for you to organise with me going to secondary school?
    • What was all of this like for you/your family when you were my age?

    The parents and carers resource has two videos that exemplify this exercise and you may wish to encourage students to watch with families:

       

     

    Steps for the interview process

    1. Students need to organise a time with their interviewee. This will likely be after school or on a weekend, so there may need to be a significant window of time for this homework to be completed.
    2. Students will interview their family member, using the final list of questions they have collated, and record the interview.
    3. Teachers can then decide how this interview data needs to be presented in class. There are multiple subject groups for which data analysis will be useful – English, Maths, HASS, Languages if the interview is conducted in a different language – so teachers need to choose which learning area will benefit most.

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