First stages of research

For the preliminary exercise I am designing the front cover of a magazine for my school. It is going to be for year 11 students, existing or new to the school, who are going into sixth form next year and want to know some information about it, it will then carry on into the rest of the year to give them information about the school. I have created a questionnaire and sent it out to all year 11 students to gain some research so I can start designing my magazine to their wants and needs. I am giving them two weeks to reply as I know some people dont check their emails regularly, I did think about it before emailing them but, I thought that printing off hard copies and handing it out to them would result in me not getting all of them back as I wouldn't be able to track them all down. Hopefully I will get some results back sooner than the deadline of the 28th September so I cant start thinking of some ideas and drawing out some plans.