© Foster & Brown Research 2015 AGW CPD Network & Training Event Public Health Intelligence South...

© Foster & Brown Research 2015

AGW CPD Network & Training EventPublic Health Intelligence

South Gloucestershire Online Pupil Survey 2015 Summary Results

November 2015

Foster and Brown Research [email protected]

Pauline Foster BSC, MSC, MPhil

Online Pupil Survey

http://www.fabresearch.com/


OPS background

Informs Policy and Practice a ‘You said, we did’ approach •Originally started in Gloucestershire 2006 – now covers virtually all schools•South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire & Slough•Online survey administered in schools in PSHE lessons or similar•PC’s, laptops and ipads etc.•Asks approx. 300 questions about things we can try & do something about•Enables targeted intervention•Allows triangulation of results•Provides information for schools to use directly•Ofsted inspections•Significant data set (6,151 children and young people)•58 schools and colleges, plus home educated pupils•Biennial tracking and benchmarking perceptions and behaviour over time •Year groups 4, 5 (optional), 6, 8, 10 and 12+/ FE (8 to 18+ years)•Primary, Secondary, independents and FE colleges•Special Schools, PRU’s, Children in Care and young carers, hospital services, and excluded pupils•Opened to schools from October 2014 to February 2015


OPS 2014 demographicsKey demographics Number of respondents South

Glos 2014-2015Number of respondents OPS total Wilts, GCC & SGlos 2006-2015

Total number of respondents 6,151 106,296Year 4 (aged 8 -9) 1,037 21,233

Year 5 (aged 9 -10) 1,301 2,110Year 6 (aged 10 -11) 1,415 23,661

Year 8 (aged 12 -13) 1,132 25,817

Year 10 (aged 13 -14) 794 23,115

Year 12 (age 16+) 472 10,599

Male 3,078 52,526

Female 2,993 53,048

Ethnicity – White British 5,106 78,493

Ethnicity – Other 735 21,196

Eligible for free school meals 640 8,062

Home district – Locality 1 2,512 -



Parent(s) in the armed forces 179 815

School phase - Primary 3,753 46,768

School type - Secondary 1,926 48,937

School phase – Year 12/ FE college 472 10,591

Limitations: Not all the schools participated (58) and only every other year group after year 6. However a number of similar studies with “off” year groups in Gloucestershire have always given us consistent results showing very similar behavioural patterns.

OPS 2015 Themes


Accessing the Data

Lodeseeker 2015

Contact Sarah Godsell for more information

Breakfast habits, % of CYP who eat breakfast every or nearly every day

Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year 120%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

88% 89% 87%

67%

41%

54%

91% 90% 88%

75% 73%

66%

Girls (n = 2,891) Boys (n = 2,754 )

Breakfast habits, the effect on school engagement (% who eat breakfast nearly or every day) the behaviour of some key vulnerable groups in South Gloucestershire

South G

louceste

rshire

Regional

Free sc

hool meals*

(pupils

premium pro

xy)

Not FSM

*

Enjoy (engaged w

ith) s

chool

Do Not e

njoy (not e

ngaged with

)school

Young care

r*

Self-

harmer*

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

79%74%

51%

67%71%

38%

56%

27%

14%17%

40%

25%

11%

34% 33%

66%

Eat breakfast Don't eat breakfast

(* Not asked in primary phase)

School lunch experience at Secondary level (year groups 8, 10 and 12)

The choice of food (n=895)

The taste of the food (n=929)

The amount of food (n=912)

How the food looks generally

(n=915)

The time it takes to queue up for

your lunch (n=963)

The dining area (n=881)

The length of time you have to

eat your lunch (n=887)

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

20%

13%

17% 16%

60%

28%

39%

32%29%

33% 34%

27%

36%

26%

48%

58%

49% 50%

13%

37%35%

Very Poor / Poor OK Good / Very Good

Physical Activity – average hours per week CYP are physically active for all year groups

Hours a week physically active0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year 12Hours a week

3 hours 44 minutes

4 hours 24 minutes

4 hours 46 minutes4 hours 50 minutes

4 hours 39 minutes

4 hours 14 minutes

Recommended at least 60 mins per day (i.e. 7 hours/week)

Physical Activity in Secondary phase Gender differences

Hours a week secondary pupils are physically active0

1

2

3

4

5

6

Year 8 Girls Year 8 Boys Year 10 Girls Year 10 BoysYear 12 Girls Year 12 Boys Sglos average Regional average

4 hours 40 mins

Hours a week physically active

4 hours 30 mins

4 hours 4 mins

3 hours 14 mins

5 hours 10 mins 5 hours 14 mins

4 hours 58 mins4 hours 38 mins

Word cloud of comments on what secondary pupils feel would help them do more exercise (n=566)

Secondary pupils felt on average that they“Quite Often” do enough physical activity to keep them healthy

Never smoked Tried once or twice Regular smokers (monthly or more)0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100% 97%

4% 4%

97%

1% 1%

98%

1% 1%

98%

1% 2%

93%

5%2%

79%

11% 9%

69%

16% 15%

Smoking behaviour – all year groups (n = 6,010)

All pupils average (n=6010) Year 4 (n= 1007) Year 5 (n=1,281) Year 6 (n=1,393) Year 8 (1,100)Year 10 (n=773) Year 12 (n=456)

3.5% smoke regularly, compared to 4.2% regionally(however there are proportionally more year 12’s in some other LA’s)

Average number of cigarettes smoked a weekby regular smokers Year 8 = 4.5Year 10 = 8.1Year 12 = 6.2

52% regular smokers want help to stop smoking

Never Tried once or twice Sometimes (monthly) Weekly Most days0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

13%

25%

36%

25%

2%

21%

27% 28%

20%

3%

32%

46%

14%

5% 5%

51%

37%

9%

0%

3%

14%

30%

39%

14%

3%

26%

39%

21%

8%6%7%

15%

37%

41%

0%

11%

18%

38%

32%

2%

Alcohol behaviour – have they every been drunk? (secondary & year 12 who drink alcohol)

All average Girls (n=228) All average Boys (n=263) Year 8 Girls (n= 22) Year 8 Boys (n=35)Year 10 Girls (n=106) Year 10 Boys (n=85) Year 12 Girls (n=100) Year 12 Boys (n=143)

Offered drugs Tried drugs Offered prescription drugs Tried prescription drugs 0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

22%

8%11%

9%

20%

9% 9% 8%

24%

8%

12%

9%

6%

1%

7% 7%

12%

2%

13%

11%

30%

16%

13% 12%

26%

10%

14%

9%

41%

17%

6%

3%

45%

16%

9%

5%

Illegal Drugs – have they ever been offered or tied illegal drugs (secondary & year 12, primary not asked)

All pupils (n=2,331) All Girls (n=1118) All Boys (n=1194) Year 8 Girls (n= 537) Year 8 Boys (n=540)Year 10 Girls (n=381) Year 10 Boys (n=387) Year 12 Girls (n=200) Year 12 Boys (n=267)

Cannab

is

Nitrous O

xide

Solve

nts

Syntheti

c Can

nibis

Ecstac

y (MDMA)

Cocaine

Mephad

rone(M

-cat)

Magic M

ushro

oms

LSD (a

cid)

Amphetamine

Benzo

Fury

(APB)

Ketamine

Branded

party p

ills/p

...

Ivory

wave

Heroin

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

23%

55%

84%81%

87%89% 90%

97%95%

95%96%

98% 97%99% 100%

50%

27%

15%11% 10% 9%

7% 6% 4% 4% 3% 2% 2% 1% 0%

16%18%

1%

8%

3% 2% 2%6%

1% 1% 1% 0% 2% 0% 0%

What type of illegal drugs are they using?

Never Occasional (not often/sometimes) Regular (quite often/most days)

Also opioid pain killers (31% occasional use) and sleeping pills (15% occasional use)

Once or twice (experimental) Sometimes (monthly) Frequently (weekly & most days)0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

65%

12%

23%

57%

13%

30%

65%

10%

25%

Frequency of self harm (those who have self harmed)

Year 8 (n=135) Year 10 (n=115) Year 12 (n=69)

The actual % of pupils who said they self harmYear 8 = 15% 85% have never self harmedYear 10 = 18% 82% have never self harmedYear 12 = 17% 83% have never self harmed

Over half of these were “experimental” self harmers (tried once or twice)therefore regular self harm (monthly or more)Year 8 = 5.2%Year 10 = 7.7%Year 12 = 5.9%

Self harm gender difference Once or twice (experimental) Sometimes (monthly) Frequently (weekly & most days)0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

71%

47%

12%

29%29%

61%

12%

18%

Frequency of self harm (those who have self harmed), gender dif-ferences

Female (n= 225) Male (n=93)

The total frequency of regular self harmers% female = 9.6%% male = 2.9%

84% of pupils have NEVER self-harmed, of the 15% who have, over half of these were “experimental” self harmers (tried once or twice)Regular self harm (monthly or more)Year 8 = 5.2%Year 10 = 7.7%Year 12 = 5.9%

Word cloud of comments on the way girls say they self-harm (secondary phase) n = 105

Word cloud of comments on the way boys say they self-harm (secondary phase) n = 66

How were they bullied? Secondary (year groups 8 & 10,

n=378)

Gender and age differences in reports of Cyber bullying (n=206)


5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

5%

8%

18%

39%41%

36%

9% 9%8%

13%

9%

14%

Girls(n= 143) Boys (n = 63)

Confident about the future - Gender differences (n = 5,124)


10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

71% 70%74%

63%

42%

34%

10% 12% 10% 11%

24%

34%

76%80%

84%

75%

65%

59%

12%8%

6%8%

11%

18%

Girls (Confident) Girls (Not confident) Boys (Confident) Boys (Not confident)

Similar pattern for happiness and satisfied with life ratings

Stress gender differences, how often are you so worried you can’t sleep at night?

Year 8 Year 10 Year 120%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

66%

51%

41%

17%

28%32%

76%80%

69%

11% 9%

19%

Girls (Not stressed) Girls (Stressed) Boys (Not stressed) Boys (Stressed)

Sleep Behaviour in Children and Young people

Hours slept Time they went to bed Time between going to bed & sleeping

0.0

2.0

4.0

6.0

8.0

10.0

12.0Averaged sleep behaviour (hours/time)

Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10

8 hours, 46 mins 8pm

44mins

10pm4 mins

10pm53 mins

Sleep experts recommend that children under 10 need at least TEN hours of sleep a night and from the ages of 10 to 18 they need at least EIGHT and a HALF hours sleep a night.

8 hours,55 mins

8 hours,44 mins

7 hours,56 mins

7 hours,6 mins

8pm56mins

9pm 10 mins

1 hour 19 mins

1 hour 17 mins1 hour

4 min1 hour2 mins

1 hour 12 mins

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