The Cornwall HS / Schools Health Education Unit survey

We've been working closely with the Schools Health Education Unit (SHEU) to offer schools access to a survey tool to support needs assessment and evaluation for their focussed piece of work for Healthy Schools Plus. We've set up a wellbeing survey for pupils in Y2, Y4, Y6 and Y8 and Y10 which is available to participating schools online and in paper form too (except for the Y2 version which is paper only).

The survey is based on some key elements of the Healthy Schools core themes and on the Every Child Matters outcomes. Results are analysed for you and presented in a report enabling you to compare your results with other similiar schools and with the whole of Cornwall too.

If you take part year on year the data accumulates and you can identify trends and improvements. If you use the option that has a unique pupil identifier, you are also able to track the progress of individual pupils.

You can see a sample survey and the SHEU system on SHEU's website.

This work has proved to be tremendously successful and schools are finding the survey very useful.

We're committed to ensuring that schools involved in Healthy Schools Plus will have continuing access to the SHEU survey and to further developments to enable trend data to be gathered and analysed.

If you missed this opportunity but are interested you can still download the form to complete and email back to SHEU and us (instructions are on the form).

And once you've got the data, how will you use it?

We've got some ideas that will help engage pupils and parents in recognising priorities, identifying what might be happening and why, and perhaps coming up with some solutions, read more.

Results for Cornwall

The results for Cornwall are summarised in this document: Supporting the health of young people in Cornwall: a summary report of the Health Related Behaviour Survey 2010. It is very pleasing to note that pupils in these schools – all Healthy Schools when the surveys were completed – show many positive differences to the SHEU reference sample. This is an indication that being a Healthy School in Cornwall ‘inspires healthier lives’.

"Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people all remark
We have done it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu Tao Te Ching