Wiltshire school experience survey report published
Friday 12th October 2018
The final summary report School Experience has now been published from the 2017 Wiltshire Children and Young People’s Health and Wellbeing Survey and can found alongside the other reports here.
This report provides detailed findings of pupils’ experiences of their schools. It starts by providing a summary of these results, after which detail is given about the demographics of the respondents and then the questions directly relating to school experiences are presented graphically and with short descriptive text.
- Three quarters of primary school pupils and half of the secondary and Year 12/FE students felt happy at school in the week prior to the survey.
o Female pupils were substantially less likely than males to feel happy at school in both secondary (48% to 58%) and Year 12/FE (44% to 59%).
o Only 30% of LGBT pupils in secondary school had felt happy in their past week at school.
- 22% - 25% of respondents worried about going to school.
o Female pupils were considerably more likely than males to worry about going to school in both the secondary sample (30% to 17%) and Year 12/FE (33% to 19%).
- 87% of primary, 61% of secondary and 76% of Year 12/FE pupils felt that they learned a lot at school.
- A fifth of secondary school respondents felt that they did not receive enough help at school with learning.
- Around a third of primary school pupils wanted to learn more cooking skills.
- 43% of secondary and 34% of Year 12/FE students wanted more knowledge about money management.
- Around half of the respondents (47%-56%) had not missed any school days in the last term.
o Young carers, pupils in receipt of free school meals, pupils with special educational needs and / or disabilities, and pupils who had or whose family had a social worker were considerably more likely than their peers to have missed multiple school days.
- 90% of secondary and 83% of Year 12/FE respondents had never been excluded from school.
o Higher proportions of males than females had been excluded.
o Pupils who had or whose family had a social worker were much more likely than their peers to have been excluded from school.
- 64% of primary and 68% of secondary school pupils ate a school lunch at least once a week, and a third in both school stages ate one every school day.
o This is an increase on the proportions eating a school lunch in 2015, both at least once a week (59% primary, 58% secondary) and on every school day (28% primary, 24% secondary).
- 88% of primary, 75% of secondary and 78% of Year 12/FE pupils reported that drinking water was easily available at their school or college.
- Around half of secondary school pupils and a quarter of primary and Year 12/FE respondents were not happy using their school toilets.
o This rose to 75% of transsexual and transgender students in secondary school.
- 75% of primary school pupils thought that their school dealt well with bullying, but this fell to 39% of the secondary and 47% of the Year 12/FE respondents.
- 86% of primary and 80% of Year 12/FE respondents felt safe or very safe at school.
o This fell to 69% of the secondary pupils.
o Less than half of LGBT pupils (47%) in secondary school felt safe or very safe at school.
- Three quarters of the primary school pupils and around half of the secondary and Year 12/FE students felt confident or extremely confident about their future.
o Females were much less likely than males to feel this confidence (73% females to 79% males in primary, 43% to 60% in secondary, 42% to 56% in Year 12/FE).
o Only 25% of LGBT pupils and 37% of those with a social worker in secondary school felt confident or extremely confident about their future.
- Overall, 71% of primary and 62% of Year 12/FE students said that they enjoyed school / college.
o This fell to 48% of the secondary school respondents.
- 53% of primary school pupils felt that the school council and pupils’ views made a difference at their school.
o This fell to 18% of secondary school respondents.
