The Environment for Learning Survey (ELS)
helps schools build a more emotionally literate ethos

ELS is a research-validated, online questionnaire.

The data it collects is confidential. This enables staff and students to articulate freely what is going on for them in their experience of school. Adults and young people from Year 3 to 13 can fill in the survey. It takes between 15 and 30 minutes to respond to the 80 or so questions.

The responses are then amalgamated into a series of charts and graphs which the school can instantly access from the website to provide an account of what is really going on.

These can be used to:

• explore the issues further with various groups of people
• think about what actions to take and strategies to put in place.

ELS is very flexible. The data can be cut in many different ways, enabling senior managers to see how school experience differs for boys and girls; different ethnic or year groups. Similarly the staff data can be subdivided to examine the working experience of teachers and support staff; those who have been in the school many years and the more recently appointed; men and women; even different faculties.


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