Purpose Our objec ve was to evaluate health educa on seminars off ered to school transi on year students (aged 15-16 years) within the hospital catchment area by means of analysis of self-completed student evalua ons of seminars from 2009 to 2013. Interna onally, detailed evalua ons of such seminars are not widely reported. Method The seminars aimed to increase students' knowledge about their health and well being and to enable behaviour change. Male and female students a ended one or more of fi ve hour-long seminars; Smoking, Minding Your Mind (MYM), Healthy Eating, Ac ve Living (HEAL), Cancer Awareness and Alcohol-a Diff erent Approach. Student opinions were recorded via Likert Scale on a structured form. Responses were dichotomised into those who found the seminars strongly met students' expecta ons and those who did not. Logis c Regression analysis taking into account gender, seminar type and other relevant variables was used to fi nd predictors of expecta on. Results There were in all 925 respondents. Factors predic ve of strongly met expecta ons were strongly fi nding the seminar interes ng, OR 5.11, 95% CI (3.43-7.61), balanced OR 2.49, 95% CI (1.62-3.80) and understandable, OR 2.47, 95% CI (1.53-4.01). These OR were all highly signifi cantly increased p < 0.001. There was also evidence of a signifi cant interac on (p = 0.039) between gender and type of seminar. Conclusion The importance of gender is demonstrated in this analysis. As with other health promo on ac vi es, more targeted student health seminars could enhance engagement.