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Data reveals decline in good staff/student relationships from KS2 to KS4

Our current sample of 20,000 students shows a significant decline across KS2 to KS4 in their experience of the relationships that support their learning. The graph below shows that the most significant decline is in the quality of their relationships with adults, the least their quality of relationships with friends.

There is a clear perception that there is less emotional safety and decreasing opportunities to talk about feelings in secondary school than primary. The quality of peer relationships declines significantly between primary and secondary, but now between KS3 and KS4. Interestingly, we also know that some schools are bucking these trends.


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