# Stay Together — Check-In Question Bank

This is a co-design starting point, not a final assessment tool. Schools should select and review questions with pupils, safeguarding staff and relevant pastoral/SEND professionals.

## 1. Check in — how does school feel?
- Really good
- Mostly okay
- Not sure
- Difficult
- Really difficult

Alternative primary wording: **How does school feel today?**

## 2. Explore — what might be getting in the way?
- Sleep / tiredness
- Getting to school / travel
- Feeling worried
- Friendships
- Learning / school work
- Noise / busy spaces
- Things happening outside school
- Something at school
- I do not feel safe
- Something else
- Nothing is getting in the way

## 3. Strengths — what is going well?
- Someone I like seeing
- A lesson / subject I enjoy
- Something I am proud of
- An adult I can talk to
- Something has got easier
- Something I am looking forward to
- Nothing comes to mind yet

## 4. Choose — what might help?
- A quick check-in with an adult
- A calmer start
- Help with school work
- Help with friendships
- Somewhere quieter
- Time to talk
- Help getting into school
- Something else

## 5. Connect — who could help?
Replace generic roles with the school's actual trusted adults where appropriate.
- Form tutor / class teacher
- Pastoral / wellbeing staff
- SEND / inclusion team
- Safeguarding team
- Family / carer
- Another trusted adult

## Co-design prompts for pupils
- Which words feel too adult?
- Which choices are missing?
- Would you answer this honestly?
- Which questions feel repetitive?
- What would make the screen feel safer or less like a test?
- What should happen after a difficult answer?
- Should names/photos of trusted adults be shown?

## Avoid
- Leading or accusatory wording
- Asking pupils to repeatedly disclose traumatic detail
- Promising confidentiality that the school cannot provide
- Turning the check-in into a behaviour score
- Using one response as evidence of a diagnosis