Follow-Up Semi-Structured Interview Schedule

Teaching Background

Can you tell me a bit about your teaching background to begin with?

How long have you been teaching?

How long have you been at your current school?

How long have you been teaching this year group?

Do you have a specialist subject or additional responsibility?

What has your experience of delivering PE and/or physical activity been?

Do you deliver your own PE lessons?

Have you delivered much physical activity outside of PE?

What are your thoughts on delivering physical activity outside of PE?

How did you feel about Busy Brain Breaks before they started?

Thoughts?

Queries?

Concerns?

Initial Implementation: What happened at the start?

What happened when Busy Brain Breaks was first introduced inside the classroom?

Can you remember what you were thinking?

Can you remember the children’s reactions/thoughts?

Can you give me an example?

Can you tell me about the initial impact it had on the class at the beginning?

Positive impact?

Negative impact? If so, what did you do?

Can you give me an example?

Did you have to make any changes to the way in which Busy Brain Breaks were implemented?

Can you give me an example?

Overall Successors: What was successful over the 10 weeks?

In what ways has Busy Brain Breaks been successful in your class?

Positive changes?

Movement?

Physical activity?

Time on task?

Can you tell me about what the children thought was successful/good?

Can you give me an example?

Overall Challenges: What was challenging over the 10 weeks?

Did you face any challenges as a result of Busy Brain Breaks?

Challenges in delivery?

Classroom behaviour?

Time?

Can you give me an example?

Did anything stop you from overcoming these challenges?

What suggestions would you give someone for overcoming those challenges?

What could be done differently?

Why did you do it that way?

Can you give me an example?

Previous focus groups identified possible barriers such as time, space, a busy workload, teacher confidence, resources, fear of getting it wrong, classroom behaviour

What is your experience of these challenges?

Can you give me an example?

Can you tell me about what the children thought was challenging/hard?

How did you overcome this?

Can you give me an example?

Sustainability:

Would you consider delivering Busy Brain Breaks again next year?

If yes, why?

If no, why?

Would you make any changes to Busy Brain Breaks?

If so why?

Can you give me an example?

Reflecting on your experience, if you were to advise someone who wanted to implement more physical activity inside the classroom, what would be your top 3 tips?

Do’s or dont’s?