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Reporting to Parents in Primary School: Communication, Meaning and Learning selected to participate in this phase of the work on the basis that they represented various types of school setting: disadvantaged urban, single sex (boys), all-Irish, small rural, mixed/mostly middle class, and a multi-denominational school incorporating a significant ethnic minority proportion. A brief profile of each participating school follows while Tables 2.1 and 2.2 summarise key details of each school and case study participants. School A is a medium sized urban school with disadvantaged status with approximately 200 students. It has 12 mainstream teachers, a HSCL teacher, four learning support (LS) teachers, behavioural support teacher and an early start teacher. It has a large minority of Traveller parents. The principal, four teachers a LS teacher, a Junior Infant teacher, the HSCL teacher and a fourth class teacher) and four parents including a Traveller parent with six children, and three other parents who have had 12 children in school participated in the case study. A focus group was conducted with four children from fifth and sixth classes. The Principal is female and has been teaching for over 20 years. Most of the teachers have been in the school for the past 15-20 years. School B is a large urban school with disadvantaged status. It has approximately 450 students, 20 mainstream teachers and 16 support/ special teachers, including a HSCL teacher. It has a large minority of Traveller students (about 70) and one third of the students were either born outside of Ireland or their parents have recently immigrated to Ireland. The focus group with six children from fourth and fifth class was undertaken in June 2007 (6th class students were on a school tour the day of the school case study). The principal is male and has approximately 35+ years teaching (25+ as principal). A small number of teachers have been in the school for the past 15-20 years and the staff has a significant number of recently qualified teachers (i.e. in the last 1-5 years). 50
Reporting to Parents in Primary School: Communication, Meaning and Learning School C is a large urban boys’ school located in a provincial town. It serves families who come from a mix of local authority and private housing. It has over 470 pupils. It has 18 mainstream class teachers, a HSCL teacher, two learning support teachers, and a resource teacher who also supports the small minority of children who come from the Traveller community. The principal, six teachers, a LS teacher, a Junior Infant teacher, the HSCL teacher, second, fifth and sixth class teachers and six parents participated in the case study. A focus group was conducted with 18 children from fifth and sixth classes. The principal, who is male, has approximately 10 years experience in the role and over ten years experience as a class teacher. Most of the teachers have been in the school for the past 15-20 years. School D is a two-teacher rural school, situated in the countryside in a small village and is about 20 miles from the nearest town. It has an enrolment of approximately 50 pupils who all live in the village or surrounding area. Pupils come mainly from a farming background. There are no newcomer children attending the school. The pupils are divided into two classes: junior infants up to second class and third class to sixth class. The school principal teaches the older pupils and the second teacher teaches the younger pupils. The school shares a learning resource teacher with one other school and this teacher works in the school on a daily basis. A focus group was conducted with six children, drawn from fifth and sixth class. The principal, the second teacher and the learning resource teacher were all interviewed separately, because of logistical difficulties in such a small school. School E is a Gaelscoil located in a medium-sized town. It has approximately 240 pupils. It has been in existence for 12 years but is located in prefabricated classrooms while awaiting a new school building. The pupils come mainly from the town and surrounding area, so there is a mixture of children from urban and rural 51
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