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Possible sources of baseline data

You are already collecting lots of data so use what you have, if appropriate.

  • Academic performance / attainment statistics
  • Alcohol incidents in school and exclusions
  • Amount of physical activity offered, before and after school
  • Amount of physical activity offered within the curriculum
  • Appropriate referrals to CAMHS
  • Assesswise screening tool
  • Attendance records for before- and after-school clubs
  • Audit, school-specific
  • Authorised and unauthorised absences
  • Boxall Profile
  • Bullying incidents and their location in the school and its environs
  • Bullying logs
  • Children's and young people's views on SRE gathered (for example) by using the Sex Education Forum and NCB resource Are you getting it right?
  • Data from the South West Public Health Observatory
  • Diaries of fizzy drink consumption and / or fruit and vegetable consumption 
  • Diaries of physical activity 
  • Diaries of school food 
  • Draw and Write analysis
  • Exclusions, external and internal
  • Fitness tests, for example Cooper, Rockport, Bleep
  • Free School Meal Entitlement
  • Head or hand counts
  • HPV data return to schools (secondary sector)
  • Information from other local or national surveys such as SHEU
  • Involvement in the school council
  • LAWSEQ (Lawrence Self-Esteem Questionnaire)
  • Logged drug incidents in school and exclusions
  • Me and My School
  • Modes of travel to school
  • Number of incidents in the playground
  • PASS survey (Pupil Attitude to Self and School)
  • PE and Sport Strategy for Young People (PESSYP) data
  • Personal Education Plan (PEP)
  • Results from questionnaires of young people
  • Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
  • RTime questionnaire
  • School meal uptake data
  • School travel survey
  • Sentinel
  • Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
  • Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS)
  • Survey of lunchbox contents (the Leeds resources are helpful) 
  • Teacher observations
  • Thrive diagnostic tool
  • Uptake of meals among children and young people eligible for free school meals
  • Your school's National Child Measurement Programme data