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Can you think of a good piece of research I could do into Golden Time?

In our ‘Better Behavior Through Golden Time' book, if you look at (p.23) there's a tiny contribution from Ian Read, Birley Spar Community Primary School. They did research into what children enjoyed most about coming to their school. 71% wrote that one of the things they most enjoyed was 'Golden Time'. I think that you could do a very good simple piece of research. Ask for a think storm from lots of children in different classes for 'things that children might enjoy in our school', turn it into a questionnaire, get children to go around and interview each other and turn their answers into clearly understandable graphs. There is very little research on Golden Time. In 1997, 292 primary schools in Wiltshire and Swindon were surveyed about 'Circle Time'. I went to have a quick look at it but they didn't look at 'Golden Time' at all. The area is ripe for research. It would be wonderful if you could go ahead and do some and post it onto our website.