Autumn 2024/Winter 2025: Swindon Pupils Voice Survey on Mental Health and Wellbeing
Thank you for completing this with your pupils from November 2024 - January 2025. The survey is now closed. Please watch this space for the results or contact us for further information.
School Surveys
This page holds the results of the social norms surveys, known as the How Are You? - Survey by schools. We carry out the annual survey in our secondary schools to learn about the changing behaviours of young people as they get older.
The analysis of the survey helps us provide a personalised approach to the support required by our schools, so they can teach an effective and meaningful PSHE curriculum.
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e results to the 2023-2024 How Are You? pupils’ voice survey for Year 8 and Year 10 pupils in Swindon have been published and are available to view at on the surveys page of the JSNA website.
Thanks to all of you who supported pupils to complete the survey.
The survey is carried out in Swindon’s secondary schools to learn about the changing behaviours of young people as they get older. The analysis of the survey helps Swindon’s public health team to provide a personalised approach to the support required by our schools, so that schools can provide an effective and meaningful PSHE curriculum and to inform their whole school approach to wellbeing. The findings include data on social norms; offering an insight into what pupils believe to be the risk behaviours of their peers, versus the reality. These data can be a powerful tool when engaging with young people in order to correct misperceptions of perceived norms.
This year, the results include gender and ethnicity comparisons, providing a helpful insight around inequalities on several issues including mental health and wellbeing, drugs, alcohol, smoking, vaping and other risk taking behaviours.
Please see below links to the years 8 and 10 social norms data that Swindon Secondary school pupils provided as part of the How are You? survey in the Autumn/Winter term. Thanks to those of you who worked with your pupils to complete the surveys. You may wish to share these short 2-3 minute films with your pupils in a PSHE lesson. In particular, they include some very powerful social norms data.
The following powerpoint slides can be used in your PSHE lessons to feed back to pupils about actual risk taking behaviour and perceptions data in Swindon. E.g. the proportion of pupils reporting that they vape in relation to how many of their peers they believe to vape. You can either show the pupils these slides all at once, or pull out the relevant slides for certain topics. If you would like this in PPT version rather than PDF, please contact us.
