SUN Young Researchers Barriers 2 Education 2020 | Page 8

Population data

Who took part ? Read on ...

We had a very high response from year 7 and 8 . We put this down to many of the Young Researchers being a similar age and able to in uence their Head of Year to roll out the survey in form tutor time . Thank you Young Researcher ' s Heads of Year !
A high number of respondents on pupil premium replied , which is brilliant . We have used this data and compared it with young people who aren ' t on pupil premium to check they aren ' t getting a poorer service .
We had a few silly answers to our survey too . Young people wrote swear words , star wars references or skipped answering the question . We cleaned those up .
We also compared and contrasted respondent answers from the following categories :

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Aged 15 and under Aged 16 and over Living rurally compared to living in an urban setting Pupil premium In care or have experiences of being in care Male and female answers Learning dif culty or disability
We do this to check our ndings across different groups were the same AND come up with recommendations where groups are negatively affected .
Table showing the number of responses from pupils receiving pupil premium .
Do you receive pupil premium OR free school meals ?
Yes 12 % No 79 % Not sure 9 %
Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Year 13 Year 14
Other
Graph showing % survey respondents by age
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 % survey respondents
Graph showing % survey respondents by gender
Male Female
Non binary Other
Prefer not to say
42 % 54 % 2 % 2 % 3 %
%
0 10 20 30 40 50 % survey respondents
* Introduced in 2011 , the pupil premium is a sum of money given to schools each year by the Government to improve the attainment of disadvantaged children .
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