This project had the initial aim of utilising test and control groups in order to analyse the effectiveness of various methods of promoting medium/long-term memory retention, with the secondary aims of helping to promote better understanding – enabling children to make links across topics with greater confidence – and improving the oracy by which they could confidently share the knowledge and skills they had learnt.
Unfortunately, the unforeseen circumstances and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequent effect on schools, has meant that the collection of any meaningful data with which to make a scholarly analysis of the aforementioned aims has proved to be unworkable. As a result of this, any conclusions have had to be underpinned by the theory gathered from published sources, academic understanding and the professional conversations between colleagues, who were kind enough to share their initial observations and analysis based on the period during which we were able to implement some of our research processes.