ESOL Students’ Sense of School Belonging, Inclusion, and Wellbeing High School Report

This report summarises the findings of research undertaken at an [School] and has been prepared for the purpose of feeding back findings to the school and to participants and for providing specific recommendations to the school. The findings are based on an analysis of data collected through questionnaires, observation, interviews and focus groups with students as well as interviews with teachers and other staff. In this report, quotes are used to illustrate important themes in the findings. Participants are anonymous. We use simple letters to refer to quotes from students (S), focus groups (FG), and teachers (T). Interviewers’ questions are marked in italics. Future writings on this project, aimed at wider audiences, will not refer to the school by name. We wish to thank Dr Ben Soltani who participated as a researcher in the fieldwork for this project. The study is part of the CaDDANZ research programme funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. More information about the CaDDANZ research programme can be found at www.caddanz.org.nz