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Fifth Grade Parent Satisfaction Survey


June 1, 2010


Dear Parents/Guardians:


Invitation to Participate: Throughout the school year we have asked for
your feedback on how your children have responded to the piloted 5/6
Health and Wellness Curriculum. Now as we near the end of the year we
are asking for your help once again to evaluate the overall quality of
the curriculum to ensure that we have reached our goals. I know that
this is a busy time of year for you, but I hope that you will take just
a little time to participate in this brief web survey.


To complete the survey online, please go to the URL below by no later
than June 11th, 2010.


Purpose: Questions arose while developing the curriculum about what
topics were most important to be included in a core wellness curriculum
and just how extensive or far reaching such a curriculum should be in
order to be considered adequate. Additionally, questions also presented
themselves about the depth to which any particular topic needed to be
addressed in terms of it being age appropriate and what indicators we
might use to measure whether students are actually learning the material
in a manner that promotes their own lifelong health and wellbeing.


In order to answer these questions we reviewed several health, physical
education, and wellness programs with our target population of the fifth
and sixth grades in mind. We consulted with psychologists,
pediatricians, physical education specialists, nurses, and experts in
other fields such as adolescent sexuality and stress management to
ascertain what they perceive to be part of a core wellness curriculum
for this age range and to what degree the material should be presented.


As a result of our research we identified a core wellness program for
the fifth and sixth grade that represented the results of our initial
investigations. We identified six Domains that, in turn, are each
constituted by a cluster of important topics: Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention; Personal and Interpersonal Life Coping Skills,
Tobacco, Alcohol and other Drugs, Human Growth/Development and
Sexuality; Fitness; and Safety.


Confidentiality: Your answers will be completely confidential. Moreover,
the results of the survey will be reported in a summary format, so again
no one will link you to your responses. Text comments will be reported
verbatim, so please do not provide identifying information in your text
comments.


Thank you in advance for your participation. If you have any questions
about the administration of the survey, please contact Jasmin Whitfield
at whitfieldj@sidwell.edu


Web address: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XH5R56T