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0.3 What the Survey Revealed About Year 7

What the Numbers Showed About Year 7

After listening to students in interviews and reading journals, I created a questionnaire. Over 500 students completed it. This helped me see patterns in the answers.

The questionnaire looked at four main areas:

  • How students manage the school environment and rules

  • Friendships and identity

  • Lessons and teaching

  • Learning and academic growth



Here is what the results showed:

1. All four areas are connected.
Belonging, learning, friendships, and teaching are not separate things. They work together. When one improves, others often improve too.

2. Most students experience school positively — but not in the same way.
Some students feel very confident socially but find lessons harder. Others enjoy learning but struggle with friendship groups. There is no single “normal” experience.

3. Small differences can matter.
The data showed some differences between groups of students. This reminds us that schools need to think carefully about fairness and inclusion.

When I combined the interview findings and the questionnaire results, I reached an important conclusion:

A Positive School Culture is created through everyday actions — how teachers speak to students, how rules are explained, how friendships are supported, and how learning feels in the classroom.

It is not just one big policy.
It is built through small moments, every day.



Thank you to everyone who took part. Your experiences are helping adults understand how to make secondary school better, and they remind us that students play an important role in shaping what school feels like through their friendships, choices, and actions every day.

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