Downhill from Year Five

Children’s well being at school decreases steadily from the last year of primary school, a survey has shown.

The charity Antidote found that in Year Five 82% of children felt school was a place that enables them to feel “Capable, listened to, accepted, safe and included”. But this fell in Year 6 and continued to fall until Year Ten.

The survey of 8000 children in 25 schools showed that the quality of relationships between teachers and students declined after Year 5, but relationships with friends were stable.