Peer Relations Survey

You will all probably be aware that we have conducted a Peer Relations Survey of our students from Year 4 to Year 12 every second year for the past 20 years. We have wanted to evaluate the implementation of our anti-bullying policy by asking a series of questions about bullying in the school, and are also wanting to evaluate which of our policies and activities have been most successful in making the school a safe place for our students. More recently, we have also wanted to ask questions around mental health and wellbeing, school life, whether students enjoy being here and what concerns them about being a member of our school community, and so on.

You might also be aware that we continue to strengthen our Pastoral Care programs to ensure that our students feel cared for and have a strong sense of belonging to the school community overall and are given the skills to live a productive and flourishing life, knowing what is important and how to look after themselves and their friends. Most importantly, we want to understand what worries our students have and how we can best support them to respond to the tricky parts of their lives. And this time around, we also wanted to understand a little more about how COVID has impacted our students throughout 2020.

And so, in August/September of last year, we again administered our Student Wellbeing survey. As usual, we used our Market Research firm, Ipsos, to administer the survey and analyse the results. In total, 736 questionnaires were completed anonymously by students from Years 4 to 12. Where possible, we have also compared our results against two national surveys, the Mission Australia Youth Survey and the Middle Years Development Index.

To see an analysis of the results, please click here.

Best wishes

Jenny Allum
Head of School