It was only during the last part of our process that we finally came up with the idea of having Ben doing the speech. This does show a lack of organisation as we should have really thought about this at the beginning and made our piece revolving around that decision but instead in the beginning we went with the idea of just having lots of little messages. This was because when we did our research on the topic, we had found some statistics that we thought we could use highlight some of our points. Though to be honest most of our points were taken off personal experiences that we as a group had all experienced. For example, one of our points why someone might not do well and fall behind and need help as because maybe the class there’re in has too many students to one teacher or for example the kids that are doing well getting all the attention because they are the ones that just because they have the ability to do well, they get the help to make sure that they stay the as the smart one. 
In the end our message was more to show that lots of the little problems that occur in classroom and at school all link up to make the major problem that we have now.

Also things like our timings went well.  For the  timings of our piece, they weren’t entirely a huge issue but we for example we had to make sure that Ben came into the scene at a moment that wouldn’t distract the audience’s attention to what was going on the stage but also so he didn’t come in so late that us on stage were left improvising.

 I feel that our strengths were that firstly, we kept our characters in mind and our focus. Another would be that our piece as far as it goes didn’t get stagnant. However despite this there were parts where it did feel a bit slow but this is because our piece was very naturalistic and therefore we didn’t have a lot movement due to the place that scene was set in. Another strength I feel our piece had was the fact that our piece was relatable and that the audience fully understood the issues we were highlighting as they would have experienced the issues themselves.
Our weaknesses were that as I’ve already mentioned, the piece was a bit slow at some parts but that was to be expected due to us not having anything like a montage which would keep the audience on their feet to find out what was going to happen next. 
If we were to further develop our piece, I feel that the part where I get up just to tell Tom he has no friends was a bit pointless. Of course it was more to add to the effect of the words that I say to him but I just feel that it was pointless after I had literally just gotten up to mime sharpening a pencil and that even after I give my line, I just sit down again.  But to really further develop our piece as a whole and not just little bits, I would consider the idea the of maybe having a bit of Verbatim Theatre as this could help us to show the problems of the education system by using the opinions of people who are teachers or have students from different types of schools. However the problem with this is that depending on how we did it, it could have made our piece more stagnant and boring to watch with the energy level being relatively low. 
Another way of developing our piece could have been by having something more abstract and physical like for example having the education system shown like in a videogame and we have to use mime and things like puppetry and audience interaction to help this person through the problems that they encounter at school. A problem with this though is that theres the chance that without proper time management, this idea could have taken too long and may be too complicate for something as simple as a 15 to 20 minute piece. Also a problem with this is that it would have lost its naturalism and relatability that we wanted to give to the audience.

But the main style we explored was naturalism. Making sure we had the setting and the actions that people would do while scenes that include them were going on, was all part of the process to making it very naturalistic.

Generally, most students stay on at college or sixth form until they reach 18 so they can prepare themselves for universities if that is there plan after finishing at college.

We also did some research into learning disabilities and the like for two of our characters as shown below:

Parents are often worried when their child has learning problems in school. There are many reasons for school failure, but a common one is a specific learning disorder. Children with learning disorders can have intelligence in the normal but the specific learning disorder may make teachers and parents concerned about their general intelligence. Often, these children may try very hard to follow instructions, concentrate, and "be good" at home and in school. Yet, despite this effort, he or she is not mastering school tasks and falls behind. Learning disorders affect at least 1 in 10 schoolchildren.

•difficulty understanding the concept of time; is confused by "yesterday, today, tomorrow."

Despite the small amount of research we didnt actually use alot of it in the end as most of our ideas came from our own personal experiences which helped us make the piece more relatable to everone and therefore more naturalistic.