Girls Active Participation Survey
Registration for the Girls Active survey is now closed. If you are interested in participating in the Girls Active survey in the next window, please read below.
We are pleased to be able to provide the opportunity for schools in England to participate in the survey. The next opportunity to do so will be next calendar year. Please check back here in January 2025 for further details on how to register.
If your school takes part in the survey, you will receive a School Insight Report based on the collated responses of students in your school. An example of the report schools will receive is provided in the downloads section.
About the survey
- The survey is available for female students in key stages 2, 3, 4 and 5 (and male students if you wish to receive a separate report).
- There are short and long survey options.
- The short survey is age-appropriate for primary students and is the survey that all primary students will complete.
- Secondary schools can choose for students to complete the short OR long survey.
- If you are an all-through school, it is possible for primary students to complete short and secondary students to complete the long survey.
- Secondary and all-through schools will be asked to confirm your preferences on the above in the registration process.
After registration, you will receive a survey link which will reflect the responses you give in this registration process. This link can be used for girls as well as boys (if you wish to receive a separate report for boys in your school). Responses to the survey using this link will also be attributed to your school only, therefore, please do not share the survey link with any other school.
Please see the long and short survey questions available in the downloads on the right hand side to help you decide which option is appropriate for your students if you are a secondary or all-through school.
Please note:
In the long version of the survey secondary aged girls will also be able to choose whether they complete an additional 4 short questions about taking part in PE or school sport when they are on their period, as well as how comfortable they are talking to their teacher about periods. They do not have to answer these 4 questions if they don’t want to.
The survey also asks students for some personal data such as their gender, year group, ethnicity, disability and free school meal status. In addition, for secondary age students we would like to ask a question in the survey about their faith/religion. This question is detailed in the long survey and help us to understand the responses of young people from different characteristic groups.
Together, this personal data helps us to understand the diversity of the people that respond to the questions in the survey. It will help us improve our work in the future and enable us to understand the activity levels, views and perspectives of young people from different characteristic groups. We will not ask for their name.
What happens to information collected?
All student responses are confidential. All responses will be compiled to produce a ‘School Insight Report’ for your school. Your school responses will also contribute to a county and national picture but no individuals or schools will be identified.
Data protection, consent, research purpose and ethics
Please read the research information sheet for full information about the research process for the long and/or short survey for the Girls Active Survey. This includes information on data protection, research purposes, ethics and informing parents/guardians about the research.