Nearly 25 per cent of Welsh girls admitted to feeling worried at school in a new study by the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). This compared to 16.5 per cent of boys.
WISERD questioned 1,500 pupils at 29 different primary and secondary schools across Wales.
It found that around 24 per cent of girls felt like they did not “belong” at school, compared to around nine per cent of boys.
Nearly 20 per cent of girls disagreed that their school was a place where “my teachers know me well”, compared to 12 per cent of the boys who were asked.
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