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CORC Forum 2020

BREAKOUT SESSION

Should schools be measuring mental wellbeing?

Introductions

Discussion

What are we learning about best to do it? Should schools be measuring mental wellbeing? What are the benefits to measuring mental wellbeing in schools? What do you think are the biggest hurdles to measuring mental wellbeing in schools?

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How do we do it?

groups

Evaluate before, during and after interventions to evaluation the impact of the support

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cohorts individuals

Carry out an anonymous survey of all young people in a year group that covers a range of domains. Repeat regularly to show change in pupil wellbeing

• ver time.

Using a questionnaire with an individual student to help to identify the nature and level of their need Repeat to monitor progress

Benefits

Whole school

• strengths and needs of pupils
• allocate resources to meet

needs

• measure how needs change
• ver time

Individual students

• provides more targeted

support to individuals and groups of children.

• enables monitoring of the

impact of this response

Parents & carers

• reinforces the importance the

schools places on mental wellbeing

• supports conversations about

their child’s needs

Other stakeholders

• aids evaluation of the

impact of work to support pupils

• Provides evidence of

responsiveness to need and impact of support

Engaging students

Students tell as that they want to understand:

• why they are being asked to complete the

wellbeing measure

• what the wellbeing measure is like and how to

complete it

• who is being asked to complete the measure
• who will see the information
• how the results will be used
• what difference it will make
• how they will get feedback

• Around half (55%) of pupils reported that completing the survey did not

make them feel happy or sad

• A third (33%) reported that completing the survey made them feel

happy

• 10% reported that completing the survey made them feel sad
• Responses appear to be associated with year group and self-reported

measures of wellbeing

Students feelings about completing a survey

Response Number of pupils % No, not made me feel happy or sad 1583 55 Yes, made me feel happy 972 33 Yes, made me feel sad 282 10 Not known (question skipped) 66 2 Total 2903 100

Early findings

• Overall responses

Has completing this survey changed how happy or sad you are feeling?

Early findings

• Examples of responses broken down by pupil

characteristics

• Examples of responses broken down by self-reported measures

Early findings