Sleep

Data presented is from the Scottish Government Health and Wellbeing Census 2021/22 undertaken in Glasgow primary and secondary schools among children from P5 to S6. 

Half (50%) of all pupils surveyed said they usually went to bed between 9pm and 11pm at night, and 17% said they usually went to bed between 12pm and 2am. When asked how many hours of sleep they got the previous night, over half of pupils (58%) reported they got between 6-8 hours of sleep, and 21% got 9-11 hours of sleep.

Current guidance is that children aged between 7-12 years need approximately 10-11 hours sleep per day, and adolescents aged between 12-18 years need approximately 8-9 hours of sleep per day. This highlights that most pupils surveyed are perhaps not getting enough sleep each night.

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This page was updated in May 2024.